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This list includes manufacturers of rifles, handguns, ammunition, and handloading components (gunpowder, primers, and brass)
Rifle manufactuers[edit]
- Christensen Arms
- 192 East 100 North Fayette, UT 84630 435-528-7999
- Colt - Colt's Manufacturing Company (CMC) was founded by Samuel Colt in 1855 (and was president until 1862). Colt best-known firearms are the M4 Carbine, the M1911 pistol, the Colt Python double action revolver, the Single Action Army or Peacemaker single action revolver, and the Colt Walker.
- Colt employed the famous gun designer John Moses Browning for a period where he designed a semi-automatic pistol called the Colt M1900. This pistol was improved by Browning and eventually released as world's most popular handgun (along with the Glock), the Colt M1911. Although Colt didn't invent the AR-15/M16, for many years Colt was the main contractor for all manufacturing of the AR-15 and M16.
- Long guns: e.g. AR-15 type rifles, like the M16 rifle, M4 carbine and Colt Commando (see AR-15 variants);
- Semi-automatic pistols: Colt M1911 (Model O, 1911), Colt Delta Elite a modified Colt M1911A1 chambered for the 10mm Auto, Colt Commander
- Colt revolvers: Colt Python (I frame), Colt Trooper (I frame), Trooper Mk III (J frame), and trooper Mk V (V Frame), Colt Cobra (D frame), Colt Diamondback (D frame), Colt King Cobra (V frame), Colt Official Police revolver / Officers Model (Match, Target & Special) / New Army & Navy (E/I frame) / Colt .357 (I Frame), *Colt Anaconda (AA frame), Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker" (1873), Colt 1860 Army (1860)
- Important Colt cartridges: .32 ACP, .380 ACP, .45 ACP, .45 Colt.
- Sapp, Rick, Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms. F+W Media, Inc, 2007, ISBN 978-0-89689-534-8. ** Colt Defense
- Defensive Edge SLR15 Rifles
- MGI
- P.O. Box 138, Old Town, ME 04468, 207-817-3280
- http://www. mgi m i I itary.com
- Patriot Ordinance Factory
- Sog Armory
- 11707 South Sam Houston Pkwv. W-Suite R Houston, TX 77031 281-568-5685
- http://www. soga rmory.com
- Tactical Weapons Solutions
Handgun manufacturers[edit]
Ammunition manufacturers[edit]
See also[edit]
- Essay:Why do conservatives own firearms? by User:TheAmericanRedoubt
- Essay:Gun Enthusiast's Glossary of Firearms and Second Amendment Terms by User:TheAmericanRedoubt
- Essay:State Firearms Laws Ranking by User:TheAmericanRedoubt
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