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Auto-Ordnance Corporation. Auto-Ordnance was a U.S. arms development firm founded by retired Colonel John T. Thompson of the United States Army Ordnance Department in 1916. [1] Auto-Ordnance is best known for the Thompson submachine gun, used as a military weapon by the Allied forces in World War II, and also notorious as a gangster weapon used ...
M50 Reising. The .45 Reising submachine gun was manufactured by Harrington & Richardson (H&R) Arms Company in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA, and was designed and patented by Eugene Reising in 1940. The three versions of the weapon were the Model 50, the folding stock Model 55, and the semiautomatic Model 60 rifle. [4]
A business partner George R. Numrich (of Numrich Arms and Gun Parts Corp. fame) was involved in the 5.7MMJ (.22 Spitfire) project in the early-to-mid 1960s. Recently Gun Parts Corp catalog #27 listed Johnson Model 1941 rifle and light machine gun parts and 5.7mm Johnson or .22 Spitfire conversions (barrel, chamber reamers, chamber gauges and ammunition) but currently www.gunpartscorp.com shows ...
The Wesson & Harrington company was at 18 Manchester Street, Worcester, Mass., from 1871 until 1877. The Harrington & Richardson company was located at 31 Hermon Street, Worcester, Mass., from 1877 until 1894. William Richardson lived at 921 Main Street in Worcester. Some of the other factory addresses that Harrington & Richardson has used:
FN Herstal / Olin Corporation [N 4] United States Belgium Zastava Arms Zastava Oružje: Zastava Arms: Serbia Zenith Firearms Zenith Firearms United States Civilian, Military, Law Enforcement Firearms, Parts, Accessories
List of firearms. This is an extensive list of small arms —including pistols, revolvers, submachine guns, shotguns, battle rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, machine guns, personal defense weapons, carbines, designated marksman rifles, multiple-barrel firearms, grenade launchers, underwater firearms, anti-tank rifles, anti-materiel rifles ...
Samuel Cummings, (February 7, 1927 – April 29, 1998) was an American small arms dealer. He founded the International Armament Corporation (also known as Interarms or Interarmco) in 1953, a company which came to dominate the free world market in private arms sales. [1] He died on April 29, 1998, in Monaco after a series of strokes.
From January 2008 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when John L. Thornton joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 60.3 percent return on your investment, compared to a -2.8 percent return from the S&P 500.