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Share of the Birmingham Small Arms Company Ltd., issued 18 July 1930. The Birmingham Small Arms Company Limited (BSA) was a major British industrial combine, a group of businesses manufacturing military and sporting firearms; bicycles; motorcycles; cars; buses and bodies; steel; iron castings; hand, power, and machine tools; coal cleaning and handling plants; sintered metals; and hard chrome ...
[1] [2] As a result, the firm moved to Witton in 1862, [3] on a site adjacent to the London and North Western Railway's Grand Junction line. [2] In 1863, Kynoch took over the business, which was subsequently renamed G. Kynoch and Co. [1] [2] A further series of explosions in the 1860s and in 1870 led to dozens of deaths and hundreds of injuries.
Calico Light Weapons Inc. (CLWS) is an American privately held manufacturing company based in Elgin, Oregon, that designs, develops and manufactures semiautomatic firearms. It was established in 1982 in Bakersfield, California , and released its first production weapon in 1985.
The .400 Corbon (10.2x22mm) is an automatic pistol cartridge developed by Cor-Bon in 1997. [2] It was created to mimic the ballistics of the 10 mm Auto cartridge in a .45 ACP form factor. It is essentially a .45 ACP case, necked down to .40 caliber with a 25-degree shoulder.
The Kel-Tec PLR-16 is a gas-operated, semi-automatic pistol version of the SU-16, chambered in 5.56 NATO, manufactured by Kel-Tec Industries of Florida.. The PLR (Pistol, Long Range) was designed for recreational target shooting, and small game, varmint, or predator hunting. [2]
Arcadia Machine & Tool, commonly abbreviated to AMT, was a firearms manufacturer from Irwindale, California.The company produced several weapons, primarily clones of existing firearms, but made from stainless steel rather than the standard steel used for most firearms of the time.
The AMT Lightning pistol is a semi-automatic pistol chambered for .22 Long Rifle which was manufactured by Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT) of Covina, California [1] during the 1980s and early 1990s. The pistol was an unlicensed, stainless steel clone of the Ruger Mark II pistol, that was updated from the Ruger, by the addition of target sights ...
A Hi-Point JCP pistol. Hi-Point semi-automatic pistols are polymer framed handguns based on the blowback design. Different from other blowback design pistols such as the Walther PPK, the P-64, and the Astra 600 which use a heavy slide combined with a stiff recoil spring to hold the breech closed, these pistols use a heavier slide so they can use a softer recoil spring.