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Anderson Manufacturing Anderson Manufacturing United States Civilian, law enforcement, military Anschütz J. G. Anschütz GmbH & Co. KG: Germany Civilian Rimfire and centerfire rifles. Most used rifles in biathlon: Arctiier Arctiier Armstech United States Civilian, military ArmaLite: Strategic Armory Corps United States Civilian, military ...
The following list of modern armament manufacturers presents major companies producing modern weapons and munitions for military, paramilitary, government agency and civilian use. The companies are listed by their full name followed by the short form, or common acronym , if any, in parentheses .
Winchester Repeating Arms Company (2 C, 5 P) Pages in category "Firearm manufacturers of the United States" The following 102 pages are in this category, out of 102 total.
4. Sturm, Ruger & Co. When you think of 100% American firearms, Ruger—officially known as Sturm, Ruger & Co.—immediately comes to mind. Founded in 1949 by enthusiastic gun makers in ...
Colt's Manufacturing Company, LLC (CMC, formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) is an American firearms manufacturer, founded in 1855 by Samuel Colt that has become a subsidiary of Czech holding company Colt CZ Group. It is the successor corporation to Colt's earlier firearms-making efforts, which started in 1836.
A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls.The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon.
Firearm trade associations like the National Shooting Sports Foundation contend that ATF’s own data shows corrupt dealers represent a tiny fraction of the nation’s 80,000 gun shops.Of the ...
In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands. [2] [3] U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. [3] This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents."