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Stevens Arms is an American firearms manufacturer founded by Joshua Stevens in 1864 in Chicopee, Massachusetts. The company introduced the .22 Long Rifle round and made a number of rifle, shotgun, and target pistol designs. By 1902, they were advertising themselves as "the largest producers of sporting arms in the world". [1]
The Stevens Boys Rifles were a series of single-shot takedown rifles produced by Stevens Arms from 1890 until 1943. The rifles used a falling-block action (sometimes called a tilting-block, dropping-block, or drop-block) and were chambered in a variety of rimfire calibers, such as .22 Short, .22 Long Rifle, .25 Rimfire, and .32 Rimfire. [2] [4]
Stevens Model 87: Semi-automatic rifle 1,000,000 1,800,000 ... 333,454 S-prefix serial numbers. ... Official rifle of the US military from 1892-4 until 1904.
The Stevens Model 520 was a pump-action shotgun developed by John Browning and originally manufactured by the J Stevens Arms & Tool Company between 1909 and 1916. [1] Stevens was sold to New England Westinghouse on 28 May 1915 and production of civilian firearms was greatly reduced. [ 1 ]
J.C. Higgins Model 103.18, bolt action single shot .22 S-L-LR rifle. Made by Marlin Firearms. Copy of Marlin model 100. J.C. Higgins Model 103.228 bolt action with removable 7-round magazine. Receiver grooves for scope mounting. Same as Marlin Model 80 (No serial number) .22 cal S-L-LR. J.C. Higgins Model 103.229 bolt action with tubular magazine.
A gun serial number is a unique identifier assigned to a singular firearm. [A] There is no international uniformity in gun serial numbers. Besides a widespread numerical base, they may contain letters and other typographical symbols, or may consist entirely of a character string; positioning and form of such identifiers is idiosyncratic. [1] [3]
It was offered in the Crack Shot No. 15 rifle, which debuted in 1900. [1] It was also available in the Stevens Favorite rifle, which was first released in 1894 and discontinued in 1935. [1] It originally used a 10 to 11 gr (0.65 to 0.71 g) black powder charge under a 67 gr (4.3 g) slug; this was later replaced by Smokeless powder.
The company entered hard times and started producing M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles at the former Stevens-Duryea factory that was originally constructed for car manufacturing in 1912. [4] [5] In 1920 they sold the J Stevens Arms Company to Savage Arms [6] but kept the automobile factory for use producing commercial products for Westinghouse ...