Tag Archives: New Jersey

NJ2AS

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New Jersey Second Amendment Society

2010

NJ based non-profit, civil rights organization

Our focus and mission is to end the hostile anti-Second Amendment and self-defense sentiment within the New Jersey Legislature and community. 

 

Frank Fiamingo

  • Founder of New Jersey Second Amendment Society

Henry Repeating Arms

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started in 1996

  • lever action manufacturer
  • no affiliation or lineage to Benjamin Tyler Henry
  • 1996 started by Louis Imperato son Anthony in Brooklyn, New York
  • secured the trademark to the Henry name
  • March 1997 first model the Henry H001 Lever Action .22
  • headquarters in Bayonne, New Jersey
  • 2007 manufacturing facility  in Rice Lake, Wisconsin purchased to produce parts
  • November 2007 Louis Imperato passed away
  • 2014 manufacturing of completed rifles
  • November 2016  1000-Man Shoot at Ben Avery Shooting Center

“Made In America Or Not Made At All”

Henry Repeating Arms
HRAC
59 East 1st Street
Bayonne, NJ 07002

https://www.henryusa.com/

Stoeger

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established in 1923
New York, New Jersey, Maryland

  • 1923 Alexander F. Stoeger
    – issued a price list from his New York City shop
    – sole authorized importer of Mauser and Luger Guns & Ammo
  • producer and importer of firearms
  • biggest firearms retailer in New York City
  • located in South Hackensack, New Jersey
  • Stoeger Publishing Company
    – Stoeger Publishing Co is the author of Shooter’s Bible
  • 1990s, the Stoeger company was purchased by Finnish rifle manufacturer Sako
  • 1994 American-made version of the Luger
  • 2000 Sako was acquired by Beretta Holding Group
    – placed under Benelli USA
    – moved to Accokeek, Maryland

Stoeger Industries
901 Eighth Street
Pocomoke, MD 21851

(301) 283-6981

stoegerindustries.com

Iver Johnson

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from 1871 to 1993
Massachusetts

  • U.S. firearms, bicycle, and motorcycle manufacturer
  • Iver Johnson (1841–1895)
  • 1857  educated as a gunsmith in Bergen, Norway
  • Had a gun store in Oslo, Norway
  • 1863 immigrated to Worcester, Massachusetts
  • he made “pepperbox” pistols for Allen & Wheelock
  • 1871 with Martin Bye created the Johnson Bye & Company
  • 1883 Johnson bought Bye out
    – name changed to Iver Johnson & Company
  • 1891 name changed Iver Johnson’s Arms & Cycle Works
    – relocated to Fitchburg, Massachusetts
  • O.F. Mossberg worked for Iver Johnson durring this time
  • 1895 Iver Johnson died of tuberculosis, his sons took over
  • 1971 Louis Imperato purchased the name and moved IJ to New Jersey
  • 1983 Investors bought Iver Johnson name and moved to Jacksonville, Arkansas
  • 1993 ceased trading under its own name
    – owned by American Military Arms Corporation (AMAC)
  • 2006 Iver Johnson Arms opened (relation in name only)
    – in Rockledge, Florida
    – manufacturer and firearms importer
    – Iver Johnson Arms is making 1911s

 

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