Tag Archives: Nebraska

NFOA

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  • The Voice of Nebraska Firearms Owners
  • founded November 5, 2000
  • organization over 10,000= members

The mission of the Nebraska Firearms Owners Association is to provide a consistent and unified voice for Nebraska Firearm Owners. NFOA is organized for the purpose of voicing the opinion of its membership to the Nebraska Legislature and other law making bodies within the state as well as Federal level, as it pertains to firearms. NFOA members will also make it a priority to educate residents on firearms related issues.

NEBRASKA FIREARMS OWNERS ASSOCIATION
P.O. BOX 27131, Omaha, NE

402.404.6362

http://nebraskafirearms.org

IAA

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International Ammunition Association

1955

  • 1955 – Cartridge Collector’s Club formed
  • 1955 – co-founder Bill Wooden
  • 1961 – Joined with the slightly younger National Cartridge Collectors Association
  • 1961 – became the International Cartridge Collectors Association (ICCA)
  • 1993 – became International Cartridge Collectors Association (IAA)
  • https://cartridgecollectors.org

International Ammunition Association, Inc.
6531 Carlsbad Dr
Lincoln, NE 68510

Bill Wooden

Hornady

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started in 1949

“Accurate, deadly, dependable”

 

  • World War II Joyce Hornady trained marksmanship to the security force at the Grand Island Arsenal
  • Hornady acquired the first of many Waterbury Farrell assembly presses,
  • 1949 a two-man operation
  • Hornady Sporting Goods Company
  • 1958 built the 8,000-square-foot plant
  • 1964 Frontier Ammunition surplus military brass with Hornady bullets
  • 1960 new manufacturing space 25,000 square feet
  • 1970 Steve Hornady, Joyce’s youngest son, joined the company
  • 1971 acquired Pacific reloading Tool Company
    – thry invented the “C” type reloading press in 1928
  • January 1981 Joyce Hornady and his companions died ina plane crash en route to SHOT Show
  • Steve Hornady became president

 

Hornady Manufacturing
3625 West Old Potash Hwy
Grand Island, NE 68803

800-338-3220

hornady.com

Nebraska Ordnance Plant

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1942 – 1945
17,250 acres
Mead, Nebraska

  • one of Nebraska’s 5 major ammunition plants
  • 1942-1945 Nebraska Defense Corporation operated the site for the Army
    – Ammunition was loaded
  • 1950-1956  reactivated for the Korean War
  • 1959  transferred to GSA
    –  National Guard & Army Reserve retained roughly 1,000 acres
    – 12 acres as a Nike Missile maintenance area
  • 1960 Air Force  Atlas missile Area (AMA) site S-1
    – 2,000 acres Atlas Missile site
  • bomb factory during the Vietnam War
  • 1990 added as a Superfund site
  • 1997 – 2020+ soil excavation and water treatment
  • 1998 Incineration of 16,449 tons of explosives -contaminated soil