Tag Archives: Massachusetts

TROY Industries

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started in 2003
West Springfield, Massachusetts

  • Steve Troy
    – retired Massachusetts State Trooper
    – retired  Air Force
  • 1987 Steve joined the Connecticut Air National Guard
    – later transferred to the US Air Force Reserve
  • 1999 to 2011 Massachusetts State Trooper
  • 2003 Steve Troy formed Troy Industries
    – designing and manufacturing top quality small arms components and accessories
  • 2012 debuted TROY firearms division
  • Troy Asymmetric
  • 2013  hired Dale Monroe
    – Lon Horiuchi’s partner at Ruby Ridge

Troy Industries, Inc.
151 Capital Drive
West Springfield, Massachusetts 01089

866-788-6412

troyind.com

Gemtech

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Gemini Technologies – Gemtech

 since 1976
Idaho, Massachusetts

  •  founded by Phil Dater in Eagle, Idaho
  • 1993 Greg Latka was president
  • 1994-2016 manufactured by GSL Technology in Michigan
  • 2011 developed subsonic .22 Long Rifle ammunition
  • 2011 instrumental in forming the American Suppressor Association (ASA)
  • July 2017 purchased by Smith & Wesson
  • 2017 moved to Massachusetts

 

gemtech.com

 

 

Toby Leary

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  • 2012 Cape Gun Works co-founder
    – fourth location is 20,000 square feet

  • Rapid Fire Radio
    – https://capegunworks.com/home
    -airs”
  • Saturday morning at 8am on KNST AM790 in Tucson, AZ
  • 9am on WCRN AM830 in Worcester, Ma
  • 7PM on WXTK 95.1FM in Barnstable, Ma.
  • Sunday at 7am on WBOB AM600 or 101.1FM in Jacksonville, FL
  • 5PM on WRKO AM680 in Boston, MA.

Toby Leary
https://capegunworks.com/about-us

GOAL

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Gun Owners’ Action League of Massachusetts
Gun Owners’ Action League (GOAL) is a 100% member supported organization whose sole focus is to protect and restore Second Amendment rights for Massachusetts residents. We are an association of law-abiding citizens who believe in the Right to Keep and Bear Arms for competition, recreation and self-protection.
GOAL Gun Owners’ Action League is the official state firearms association in Massachusetts. We are an association of law-abiding citizens who believe in the basic right of firearms ownership for competition, recreation and self-protection. GOAL works hard to defend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights against those in Massachusetts who wish to infringe upon the freedoms guaranteed by
  • 1974 Founded

http://www.goal.org

GOAL
361 W. Main St.
Northborough, MA. 01532

Phone: (508) 393-5333

Seecamp

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 from 1973 to 2014
Milford, Connecticut

  • Ludwig (Louis) Wilhelm Seecamp (1901-1989)
    – before WWII trained as a master gunsmith in the technical academy in Germany
  • 1959 – 1971  gun designer for O.F. Mossberg.
  • 1973 started as a gunsmithing company doing double-action conversions on 1911
  • 1978 patented specialized spring system for miniaturization of pistols
  • 1981 Seecamp ventured into firearms manufacturing, beginning with the LWS-25 double action only (DAO)
  • 1999 third model, the LWS-380
  • 2014 Whalley Precision took over production

L.W. Seecamp Co.
28 Hudson Drive
Southwick, MA 01077

(413) 569-4650

seecamp.com

Dan Wesson

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 incorporated in 1968
Norwich, New York

  • 1852 Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson
  • 1873 Daniel B. Wesson. Mr. Wesson purchased Mr. Smith’s interest in S&W
  • April 22, 1916 Daniel B. Wesson II  (born) in Springfield, Massachusetts
  • 1938 – 1963 Daniel B. Wesson II worked at Smith & Wesson
  • 1965 Smith & Wesson purchased by Bangor-Punta
  • 1968 Dan Wesson Arms founded in Monson, Massachusetts
  • 1996 moved to Norwich, New York
  • 2005 bought by CZ-USA
    Female CEO Alice Poluchová

Dan Wesson
65 Borden Ave.
Norwich, NY 13815

(800) 955-4486

danwessonfirearms.com

Thompson Center Arms

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since 1967
New Hampshire, Massachusetts

  • Warren Center developed an unusual break-action, single-shot pistol
    – in his basement workshop in Rochester, New Hampshire 
  • 1965 Warren Center joined the K.W. Thompson Tool Company
  • 1967 Warren Center’s Contender pistol introduced
  • 1968 name was changed to Thompson/Center Arms Company
  • 1970 introduced Warren Center’s Hawken-styled black powder muzzle-loader rifle
  • 1983 Encore was released
    – uses a different trigger mechanism
    – larger and stronger frame
    – over 86 cartridges
  • 1992 United States v. Thompson/Center Arms Co
    – Court ruled in the the rifle conversion kit did not constitute a short-barreled rifle under the National Firearms Act of 1934
  • 1996  major factory fire at the Thompson/Center factory
    – destroyed all tooling and parts for Scout & Patriot pistols & the Seneca rifle
    – they were all discontinued
  • January 4, 2007, Thompson/Center was purchased by Smith & Wesson
  •  December 8, 2010 manufacturing was moved to Springfield, Massachusetts

Thompson Center Arms
2100 Roosevelt Ave.
Springfield, MA 01104

(866) 730-1614

tcarms.com

Yankee Hill Machine

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1951
Massachusetts

  • 1951 founded by Wallace Judd & James Graham in Yankee Hill, Massachusetts
  • 1960s government contract to design and produce cleaning rods for the M16
  • 1980s son Jay took over
  • 2000s began manufacturing suppressors
  • 2008 YNH-15 first complete rifle
  • 2013 Grandsons took over

Yankee Hill Machine
412 Main St.
Easthampton, Massachusetts

yhm.net

 

NSSA

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National Skeet Shooting Association (NSSA)

  • – Created in 1920
    – by Charles Davis and William Harnden Foster
  • Created in Andover, Massachusetts
  • Introduced Nationally in the February 1926
  • 1926 National Skeet Shooting Association formed
    – National Shooting Complex in San Antonio, Texas
  • November 1961 Henry Alcus, proposed the foundation of a NSSA permanent library
  • NSSA/NSCA Museum and Hall of Fame
  • 1973 the NSSA moved from Dallas to its new “permanent” home in San Antonio
  • 1989 the first NSSA/NSCA Museum and Hall of Fame building
  • 2002 construction was started on new museum building

National Skeet Shooting Association is the National Governing Body for NSSA-type skeet shooting in the USA. They promote skeet shooting with 12 gauge, 20 gauge, 28 gauge and 410 gauge shotguns and also host their “World Shoot” each year.