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William Batterman Ruger (June 21, 1916 – July 6, 2002) was an American firearms designer and entrepreneur, who partnered with Alexander McCormick Sturm to establish Sturm, Ruger & Company in 1949. Their first product was the Ruger Standard , the most popular .22 caliber target pistol ever made in the United States.
William P. Ruger [1] (born 1971) is an American academic serving as the president of the American Institute for Economic Research. [2] He was previously the vice president for research and policy at the Charles Koch Institute and the vice president for foreign policy at Stand Together .
Sturm, Ruger stock has been publicly traded since 1969 and became a New York Stock Exchange company in 1990 (NYSE:RGR). After Alex Sturm's death in 1951, William B. Ruger continued to direct the company until his death in 2002. In September 2020, the company bought the Marlin Firearms company from bankrupt Remington Outdoor Company. [13]
William Ruger may refer to: William Ruger (state senator) (died 1843), New York politician; William B. Ruger (1916–2002), American firearms manufacturer; William C. Ruger (1824–1892), Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals; William P. Ruger, academic and former nominee for United States Ambassador to Afghanistan
William Bryan Cruse Jr. (November 21, 1927 – November 29, 2009) [9] was a retired librarian from Kentucky. In 1985, Cruse moved to Palm Bay with his wife, who was sick and suffered from Parkinson's disease .
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He is perhaps best known today for his $50,000 [7] seed-money investment in co-founding Sturm, Ruger & Co. in 1949 prompted by his interest in guns and his friendship with William Batterman Ruger. Ruger provided the technical know-how as a gunsmith , and business acumen; Sturm provided the Germanic heraldic-based red eagle logo and all of the ...
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