Tag Archives: Texas

Michael Cargill

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  • 12 years in the United States Army
  • 2011 – Owner/Founder: Central Texas Gun Works
  • Central Texas Gun Works was the first business in Texas to have a completely solar powered sign
  • Frequent guest and subject matter expert
  • 2014 – Host of Come And Talk It – Radio Show – Podcast
  • 2016 – Exc. Director Texans for Accountable Government (TAG)

Dr John Edeen

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– Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon in San Antonio, TX
– Oversees membership development at Doctors For Responsible Gun Ownership (DRGO)

Dr John Edeen

Daily Bullet – Dr. John Edeen – Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership
Dec 14, 2020

From the 2019 Gun Rights Policy Conference

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLcQZ8HqchY

https://gunstreamer.com/watch/red-flags-dr-john-edeen-doctors-for-responsible-gun-ownership-grpc-2019_Cg58DY7nCFqkX3b.html

Stephen Willeford

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  • November 2017  – Sutherland Springs, Texas
  • begun speaking publicly about his life and experiences
  • May 2018 – speech at the National Rifle Association Convention
  • 2018 Texas delegation at State of the Union address in Washington, D.C.

https://www.stephenwilleford.com/

Suzanna Hupp

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1958

  • Chiropractor
  • 1996 – 2007 Texas House Representative
  • she has spread the word about a right-to-carry
  • Testified across the country in support of concealed handgun laws
  • 2021 working in the TX AG office
  • 2021 in attendance at the committee hearings on Texas Constitutional Carry

Luby’s massacre

(October 16, 1991, Her parents were killed durring a Mass Killing at a Luby’s Cafeteria in Killeen, Texas, She had her CWW in the parking lot, per Texas law)

Jerry Patterson

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November 15, 1946

  • 1969 Texas A&M University
  • 1972 volunteered for duty in Vietnam
  • 1993 retireed from the Marine Corps Reserve as a Lieutenant Colonel 
  • 1993 – 1999 Texas State Senator
  • 1995 sponsored and shepherded a number of Texas CHL bills
  • 1997 successful effort and the equally important Texas CHL revision
  • 2003 – 2015 27th Land Commissioner of Texas
  • June 5, 2007 named “Texan of the Year” by Celebrate Texas

High Standard

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1926 – 2018

  • 1926 founded in Hamden, Connecticut
  • 1932 purchased by Carl Gustav Swebilius
  • During World War II supplied .22 pistols for pistol training
  • D developed a silent, flashless pistol for use by OSS agents behind enemy lines
  • 1962 – 1984 High Standard D-100
    hammerless, double-action derringers
  • 1968 acquired by the Leisure Group
  • 1976 relocated to East Hartford, Connecticut
  • February 1977 stopped production of long guns
  • 1978 Clem Confessore led management buyout from Leisure Group
  • December 1984, its assets were auctioned to Gordon Elliott
  • 1990 American Derringer obtained the rights to High Standard Derringer design
  • 1993 High Standard of Houston, Texas acquired the company assets and trademark Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
  • March 1994 first Houston manufactured pistols
  • 2000s acquired Interarms
  • 2001 Acquired Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)
  • 2018 went out of business

High Standard Manufacturing Company

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.

O.F. Mossberg & Sons

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Started March 1919
New Haven, Connecticut

O.F. Mossberg & Sons the oldest family-owned firearms manufacturer in USA

  • 1866 Oscar Frederick Mossberg born in Sweden
    1866–1937
  • 1886 emigrated to the United States
  • worked at the Iver Johnson Arms
  •  managed C.S. Shattuck Arms Co
  •  worked for J. Stevens Arms & Tool Co
    –  he designed a small four-shot novelty pistol
  • 1907 – 1909 made 500 four-shot pistols in old barn behind his house
  • 1914 worked for Marlin
    moved to New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1919 Marlin went out of business
  • March 1919 at 53-years-old O.F. Mossberg
    his two sons, Iver and Harold
    started O.F. Mossberg & Sons in New Haven, Connecticut
  • 1920 -1932 4-shot .22-caliber pocket pistol the Brownie
  • 1921 the company purchased a new building
  • 1922 first .22 rimfire rifles
  • 1922 pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. Savage
    (son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp)
  • 1937 built a third factory
  • 1937 O.F. Mossberg passed the business continued under his son Harold
  • made parts for Browning M2 during World War II
  • 1960 new facility in North Haven
  • firearms production moved to Eagle Pass, Texas

O.F. Mossberg & Sons