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Henry Repeating Arms is a firearms manufacturing company. As of 2019, Henry Repeating Arms ranked in the top five of U.S. long gun manufacturers, and eighth overall in total firearms production, [ 1 ] manufacturing over 300,000 firearms annually.
Deringer was born in Easton, Pennsylvania, on October 26, 1786, to colonial gunsmith Henry Deringer Sr. [2] (1756–1833) and Catherine McQuety (1759–1829). The family moved to Philadelphia, where his father continued work on the Kentucky rifle, both an ornate sporting model and a basic version for the U.S. Army. [2]
Henry was born in Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1821. He apprenticed to a gunsmith as a young man and worked his way up to shop foreman at the Robins & Lawrence Arms Company of Windsor, Vermont, where he worked with Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson on a rifle known as the "Volitional Repeater". [2]
The unrelated Henry Repeating Arms produces a modernized replica of the Henry Model 1860 rifle with brass receiver and American walnut stock, but a modern steel barrel and internal components. [14] Uberti produces an almost exact copy Henry Model 1860 chambered in .44-40 Winchester or .45 Colt, rather than the original .44 Henry rimfire.
Set in 1875, Have Gun Will Travel Radio Episode "Landfall" aired November 08, 1959. A character offers Paladin use of his Jennings rifle. The Rider, the title character of Edward M. Erdelac's Judeocentric Lovecraftian weird west series Merkabah Rider, carries a Volcanic pistol inlaid with gold and silver and bearing various Solomonic talismans and wards, including a jeweled Tree of Sephiroth ...
In 2018, Small Arms Survey reported that there are over one billion small arms distributed globally, of which 857 million (about 85 percent) are in civilian hands. [2] [3] U.S. civilians alone account for 393 million (about 46 percent) of the worldwide total of civilian held firearms. [3] This amounts to "120.5 firearms for every 100 residents."
Harrington & Richardson Arms Company (or H&R) is an American brand of firearms and a subsidiary of JJE Capital Holdings. H&R ceased independent production February 27, 2015. H&R ceased independent production February 27, 2015.
This base can be used on the ArmaLite and the Charter Arms Explorer rifles and the Charter Arms Explorer II pistol. However, with the base in place, the rifle receiver will no longer fit the recess in the stock for storage. (The B Square Charter Arms AR-7 base is not needed on the Henry version and will not fit the Henry receiver.)