Started March 1919
New Haven, Connecticut

O.F. Mossberg & Sons the oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in USA

• 1866 Oscar Frederick Mossberg born in Sweden
  1866–1937
• 1886 emigrated to the United States
• worked at the Iver Johnson Arms
•  managed C.S. Shattuck Arms Co
•  worked for J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co
  –  he designed a small four-shot novelty pistol
• 1907 – 1909 made 500 four-shot pistols in old barn behind his house
• 1914 worked for Marlin
  moved to New Haven, Connecticut
• 1919 Marlin went out of business
• March 1919 at 53-years-old O.F. Mossberg
  his two sons, Iver and Harold
  started O.F. Mossberg & Sons in New Haven, Connecticut
• 1920 -1932 4-shot .22-caliber pocket pistol the Brownie
• 1921 the company purchased a new building
• 1922 first .22 rimfire rifles
• 1922 pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. Savage
  (son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp)
• 1937 built a third factory
• 1937 O.F. Mossberg passed the business continued under his son Harold
• made parts for Browning M2 during World War II
• 1960 new facility in North Haven
• firearms production moved to Eagle Pass, Texas

O.F. Mossberg & Sons