Tag Archives: Arizona

Charles Heller

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(1956)
– son of a law-enforcement officer and grandson of a judge
– 1978 moved to Arizona
– 2002 Liberty Watch Radio & America Armed & Free Radio Show
– 2005 One of the Four co-founders of the Arizona Citizens Defense League
– 2011-2013 excec Director of JPFO
– Currently Media Co-Ordinator for AzCDL & JPFO

– Host of Liberty Watch Radio
– Co-founder of The Arizona Citizens Defense League (AZCDL)
– Media coordinator for AzCDL
– Former executive director of Jews For The Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JPFO)
– Media coordinator for JPFO
– Arizona concealed weapons instructor for 22 years
– Has visited 25 of the 28 submarines on display in the U.S
– (and visited 2 not on display, and worked on one as a kid)

Sandy Froman

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1949

  • Sandra Froman
  • 2005 -2007 • President of the National Rifle Association
  • raised in the San Francisco, California
  • 1971 • Stanford University
  • 1974 • degree from Harvard Law School
  • 1984 – Married to Bruce Nelson
  • 1992 • NRA Board of Directors
    – lifetime appointment on the NRA Executive Council
  • 1998-2003 • 2nd Vice President of the NRA (under Charlton Heston)
  • 2003 – 2005 • NRA 1st Vice President

Sturm, Ruger & Co

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founded in 1949
Connecticut, Arizona, North Carolina

Ruger is currently America’s largest firearm manufacturer

 second largest handgun manufacturer after Smith & Wesson

second largest rifle manufacturer after Remington

 

  • 1949 founded by Alexander McCormick Sturm and William B. Ruger in Southport, Connecticut
  • Rugers first pistol, serial Number 8, was “hand delivered” to Warren Page
  • Oct. 6, 1949 first shipment of pistols
  • 1,138 pistols produced and shipped by end of 1949
  • November 1951 Alexander Sturm (28) died unexpectedly
    – Bill switched the company eagle logo from red to black from then on
  • 1953 first single action revolver
  • 1960s rifles were added
  • 1969 publicly traded
  • 1980s Opened the Prescott, Arizona factory to manufacture semi-auto pistols
  • 2000 Bill Ruger retired
  • Bill Ruger passed
  • 2006 Bill Ruger, Jr. retired
  • 2008  LCP semi-automatic pistol
  • 2013 Factory in Mayodan, North Carolina
    – 24-year old vacant yarn plant
    – built in 1989 and has over 194,000 sq. feet
  • 2018 Bill Ruger, Jr., passed
  • 700 variations of more than 40 product lines
  • the only American firearms company that is not as a part of a parent company

Arms Makers for Responsible Citizens

Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc
411 Sunapee Street
Newport, NH 03773

Telephone: 336-949-5200

Louis Awerbuck

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January 27, 1948 – June 24, 2014 (66)

  • Born in South Africa
  • 1st Special Services Battalion – South African Defence Force
  • Disciple of Col. Jeff Cooper
  • Chief Rangemaster under at Gunsite
    – Louis came to Gunsite to take a class, and Jeff Cooper was very impressed with him. Cooper eventually sponsored him for citizenship and hired him. Louis was the COO (ops officer) at Gunsite
  • Adjunct instructor for the U.S. Marine Corps
  • Adjunct instructor for Department of Energy
  • One of 12 “Shooting Masters who hold a Doctorate in Firearms“
  • May 2010 “The Final Weapon.” – Black Belt magazine 
  • Column in SWAT magazine “Training and Tactics”  on page 98
  • 1987 started Yavapai Firearms Academy Ltd. in Prescott Valley, AZ
  • 1999 wrote “Tactical Reality”
  • 2013 wrote “Plowshares into Swords.”
  • 2018 – “More Tactical Reality”
  • 2018 – Hit or Myth: An Analysis of Target Systems for Practical Training in Defensive Shooting

J&G Sales

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started in 1946

  • 1946 founded in Turner, Montana by Joe DeSaye called the J&G Rifle Ranch
  • 1977 moved to Prescott, Arizona
  • 1994 two of Joe’s sons took over the business
  • March 2008 Joe DeSaye, the founder, passed
  • large warehouse in Prescott, Arizona

J&G Sales
440 Miller Valley Rd
Prescott, AZ 86301

928-445-9650

jgsales.com