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Magnum Research

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founded in 1979
Minnesota, Pennsylvania

  • 1979 Magnum Research’s founders, Jim Skildum and John Risdall in Pillager, MN
  • January 1983 filed a US patent for a gas-actuated pistol
  • 1985 – 1995 pistols were manufactured by Israel Military Industries (IMI)
  • 1995 – 1998  manufactured by Saco Defense in Saco, Maine
  • 1998 – 2009 manufactured by Israel again
    – 2005 IMI was privatized and renamed Israel Weapon Industries (IWI)
  • 2009 manufactured in Pillager, Minnesota
  • June 2010 purchased by Kahr Arms
  • 2015 moved to Pennsylvania
    –  620-acre
    – 40,000 square foot

Magnum Research
12602 33rd Avenue SW
Pillager, MN 56473

 

Bruce Nelson

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1948 – 1995

  • born on Jan 3. 1948 in Duluth Minnesota
  • became an NRA member when he was seven years old
  • 1954 worked for John Bianchi in Monrovia Ca
  • shot in the Southwest Pistol League
  • 1969, he became the fourth member of the Fillmore (California) Police Department
  • California Department of Justice, Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement
  • 1975 created the CDOJ Advanced Training Officer Survival Program
  • 1976 one of the 40 founding members of the International Practical Shooting Confederation
    – holster committee w/ Michael Harries
  • 1976 second place in the I.P.S.C. Columbia Conference Match
  • 1977 I.P.S.C. Southwest United States Champion
  • 1984 wife Sandra Froman, “Sandy”
    – NRA president 2005 – 2007
  • 1985 Bruce Nelson Combat Leather stated in Tucson, AZ
  • February 15th 1995 Bruce passed

http://brucenelson.com/

Federal Premium Ammunition

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April 27, 1922
in Anoka, Minnesota

  • April 27, 1922 Charles L. Horn founded Federal Cartridge Corporation in Anoka, Minnesota
    – four factories
    – 700,000 square feet
  • 1941 Federal won an $87-million contract from the U.S. government
    – to build and operate the $30-million Twin City Ordnance Plant (TCOP)
  • 1977 William B. Horn introduced Federal’s Premium line of centerfire rifle and shotshell ammunition
  • 1987 – 2020 worked with a local non-profit group to employ people with disabilities
  • Premium line with projectiles from Nosler Partition and Sierra boat-tail
  • 2014 built modern water-treatment plant
  • February 2015 owned by Vista Outdoor
  • 2019 started selling directly to consumers through online store
  • customers can order hand-loaded ammunition customized for their needs