Tag Archives: Importer

CZ-USA

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since 1997
California, Missouri

  • 1991 importers/distributors as Bauska, Action Arms and Magnum Research
  • the US-based subsidiary of Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod the Czech firearms manufacturer
  • 1997 CZ-USA headquarters Initially based in Oakhurst, California
  • 1998 moved to Kansas City, Missouri
  • 2005 bought Dan Wesson Firearms based in Norwich, New York
  • CZ-USA’s custom shop in Warsaw, Missouri
  • president of CZ-USA is Alice Poluchova

CZ-USA
P.O. Box 171073
Kansas City, KS 66117

800-955-4486

cz-usa.com

I.O. Inc

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founded in 1995
North Carolina, Florida

  • 1995 Ulrich “Uli” Wiegand started the company
    – German immigrant
  • 2013 moved to Florida
  • 60,000-square-foot
    – 50 employees
    – 2,500 AK-47 rifles a month

 Inter Ordnance
3305 Westwood Industrial Dr
Monroe, NC 28110

(704) 225-8843

 Inter Ordnance
295 North Dr Suite A
Mlebourne, FL 32934

Rock Island Armory

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USA office opened in 1985
Nevada, Montana

Armscor history in Philippines

  • 1941 – Don Celso Tuason purchases Sportsman’s Headquarters
  • 1952 – In postwar Philippines, Don Celso Tuason obtains the first license in his country to begin firearm and ammunition manufacturing
  • 1952 – The company is renamed Squires Bingham Manufacturing Inc.
  • 1965 – Don Celso turns over control of the company to his three sons: Bolo, Butch, Concoy
  • 1980 – Squires Bingham Manufacturing Inc. is reorganized
    – becomes Arms Corporation of the Philippines (ARMSCOR)
    – Demetrio “Bolo” Tuason is named Chairman and President
  • Armscor bult 1911s for
    – Charles Daly
    – Tanfoglio
    – Rock Island Armory

  • 1985 – Armscor Precision International opens its first office in the US
  • 1985 – acquires the Rock Island Armory brand
    – partly outsourced to IMBEL (Indústria de Material Bélico do Brasil)
    – distributed in the U.S. by SARCO
    – rebranded Armscor  1911s
  • 1997 – the second manufacturer awarded the ISO 9001 certification
  • 2011 – new production facilities in Stevensville, Montana
    – Armscor USA Ammo
  • 2012 – Martin Tuason becomes new president
  • 2016 – Open US Manufacturing plant in Pahrump, NV
  • 2017  M200 .38 caliber revolver

 

Armscor USA and Rock Island Armory
150 North Smart Way
Pahrump, NV 89060

(775) 537-1444

SIG Sauer

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 founded in 1985
Virginia, New Hampshire

Old World Sig

  •  founded in 1853 in
    – Friedrich Peyer im Hof (1817–1900)
    – Heinrich Moser (1805-1874)
    – Johann Conrad Neher (1818-1877)
  • 1860 awarded contract to produce 30,000 Prelaz-Burnand rifles
  • 1860 company name was changed to Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft
    (SIG, German for “Swiss Industrial Company”)
  • 1947 SIG P210 pistol was developed
    – single-action semi-automatic
  • 1949 adopted by the Swiss military as “Pistole 49”
  • 1970s SIG purchased J. P. Sauer and Sohn
    – renamed  SIG Sauer
  • 1977 – 1980 Browning BDA, amodified SIG Sauer P220 design was produced for the Browning Arms
    –  the first SIG Sauer P220 type sold in the US
  • Swiss law limits the ability of Swiss companies to export firearms
    – have to use a foreign partner

SIG in the USA

  • January 1985 established SIGARMS, in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia
    – to import the P220 and P230 models into the US
  • 1987 moved to a larger facility in Herndon, Virginia
    – P225, P226 and P228
  • 1990 moved to Exeter, New Hampshire
  • 1992 production began on the P229
  • 1996 SIG Sauer Academy in Epping, New Hampshire
  • 2000 became known as Swiss Arms
    – still using the SIG Sauer brand
  • 2007, SIGARMS changed its name to SIG Sauer Inc
  • Sig 556
  • 2014 new corporate headquarter and production facility in Newington, New Hampshire
    – 206,000-square-foot
  • 2015 expanded to include suppressors, optics, ammo and airguns
  • January 2017 awarded US Army contract for the P320
  • July 12, 2018 Texas Department of Public Safety (TXDPS) used the SIG SAUER P320
  • 2019 Swiss Arms was renamed SIG SAUER AG
  •  one-third of law enforcement in the United States use SIG firearms
  • June 4, 2020 closing factory Eckernförde, Germany

SIG SAUER, Inc.
72 Pease Boulevard
Newington, NH 03801

603-610-3000

sigsauer.com

Century International Arms

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founded in 1961
Vermont, Florida

  • William Sucher took a Lee–Enfield rifle in trade against a typewriter he had repaired
    – he posted a newspaper to sell it and received more queries about the rifle than he had for typewriters
    – then looked for sources of surplus rifles he could sell for a profit
  • 1961 founded in St. Albans, Vermont
  • 1970s largest importer of firearms in the United States and Canada
  • 1995 moved to Boca Raton, Florida
  • 2004 moved to Delray Beach, Florida
  • 2012  US importer and distributor for Red Army Standard Ammunition

Century Arms
430 South Congress Avenue, Suite 1A
Delray Beach, FL, 33445

1-800-991-4867

centuryarms.com

Charles Daly

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1875 – 1919
New York City

  • October 12, 1839 Charles Daly was born in New York City
  • 1875  began importing firearms into New York City
    – Charles Daly and August Shoverling
    – from the city of Suhl in what was then Prussia (Russia)
  • 1887 Shoverling and Daly were joined by a third partner named Joseph Gales
  • 1899 Charles Daly died suddenly
    – Charles Howard Daly (son) took his place
  • 1919 the partnership was sold to Henry Modell
  • 1927 sold to the Walzer family
    – owned Sloan’s Sporting Goods in Ridgefield, Connecticut
  • 1976 Sloan’s sold the Charles Daly trademark to
    – Outdoor Sports Headquarters Inc. (OSHI)
    – sporting goods wholesaler in Dayton, Ohio
  • 1996, OSHI was sold to
    – Jerry’s Sport Center
    – firearm wholesaler in Forest City, Pennsylvania
  • 1996 bought by KBI, Inc. of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
    – “Charles Daly, The Shooting Sports Specialist”
  • 2008, KBI formed Charles Daly Defense
    – a new division to build Charles Daly Defense AR-15
  • January 29, 2010 Charles Daly and KBI were going out of business
  • January 2012, Charles Daly and CD Defense
    – announced their return to the US market
    – with Trans World Arms LLC of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
  • September 2012 Charles Daly trademark acquired by Samco Global Arms, Inc. (SGAI) in Miami, Florida
  • 2017 the Charles Daly trademark bought by Chiappa Firearms