founded in 1979

• 1950s Jack Warne started Sporting Arms (Sportco) in Adelaide, South Australia
• 1968 Omark Industries purchased Sporting Arms
• 1968 Jack Warne moved to Oregon
• 1979 founded as “Kimber of Oregon” by Jack Warne in Clackamas, Oregon
  – accurate .22 long rifle caliber rifles
• second manufacturing plant in Colton, Oregon
• 1989, Kimber of Oregon sold to WTD Industries, Inc (Bruce Engel)
  – later went bankrupt
  – Kimber of Oregon’s tooling ended up in a Portland junkyard
• 1990 Dan Cooper (fomer Kimber employee) founded Cooper Firearms of Montana
• February 1991 Jack Warne founded the Warne Manufacturing Company
  – manufactured new rifle scope mounting system
• Mid 1990s  Greg Warne & Les Edelman purchased the original tooling and partnered to found Kimber of America
  – Edelman forced Greg Warne out
• 1996? – Kimber mves to Yonkers, New York
• 2002 LAPD SWAT chose a Custom TLE II as standard issue
• 2019 moved from Yonkers, NY to Troy, Alabama