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William B. Ruger's Standard Pistol 1951 Design Patent Drawing. Ruger was born on 21 June 1916 in Brooklyn, New York. [1] He learned to shoot at age 6, and he received his own Remington Model 12 from his father at the age of 12. [1] He graduated from Alexander Hamilton High School in January 1936. [2]
The Model 1912 (shortened to Model 12 in 1919) was the next step from the Winchester Model 1897 hammer-fired shotgun, which in turn had evolved from the earlier Winchester Model 1893 shotgun. The Model 12 was designed by Winchester engineer T.C. Johnson, and was based in part on the M1893/97 design by John M. Browning, in that it used a sliding ...
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. [3] On September 10, 2020, Ruger was nominated by President ...
[12] 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]
The Winchester Repeating Arms Company was a prominent American manufacturer of repeating firearms and ammunition. The firm was established in 1866 by Oliver Winchester and was located in New Haven, Connecticut. The firm went into receivership in 1931 and was bought by the Western Cartridge Company, a forerunner of the Olin Corporation.
In 1979, Ruger began to offer the Red Label in 12 Gauge and eventually a scaled-down version in 28 Gauge (1994). The design was born of William B. Ruger's desire to produce a quality US made over and under shotgun. In order to achieve this and put quality on par with hand-made European shotguns, Ruger invested in expensive machinery to do most ...
In 2002, Ruger began offering the Bearcat in stainless steel. [12] In 2008, a 50th Anniversary edition was released with gold-filled script and special engravings, with 2,539 units produced. [13] In 2015, Ruger introduced a variant of the Bearcat with adjustable sights, addressing a longstanding criticism of the limitations of the fixed sights ...
The Mini-14 is a lightweight semi-automatic rifle manufactured by Sturm, Ruger & Co. Introduced in 1973, the design was outwardly based on the M14 rifle and is, in appearance, a scaled-down version chambered in 5.56×45mm NATO, though with its own gas system design. Since 1973, Ruger has introduced several variants, including variants chambered ...