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Connecticut gun and ammunition manufacturers
« on: April 19, 2011, 01:08:39 PM »
We are proud to be a manufacturer in Connecticut, which has a long history of being home to many companies that either manufactured firearms or related products.  Recently I met a guy named Dean Blair who started Nutmeg Ammunition.  I think that it behooves all of us to support each other in this area, in these trying times, so we decided to carry his ammo on our site.  This is a long story, I know, but it has a point.

I need to write an intro to his company for my site and as part of it I would really like to recount those companies that have thrived here in CT.  And that is where you folks come in.  I have got a list going and I hope that you will help me to make it sorta complete.  Please think of Connecticut companies that are related to the firearms biz. Lyman for example.  Here are some that come to mind

Marlin
Colt
Sharps
American Ordnance Company
UMC
Winchester
Bates & Dittus (ahem ;))
Nutmeg Ammunition
Charter Arms
Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company
Mossberg
Ruger
Connecticut Shotgun Manufacturing Company
CVA

More??
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Re: Connecticut gun and ammunition manufacturers
« Reply #1 on: April 19, 2011, 02:06:18 PM »
CVA is in Georgia..

How about Remington ammunition (UMC) in Stratford and Lordship and Parker Brothers Shotguns in Meriden.
Then there is Hi Standard in New Haven, then Hamden and fineally in East Haven.
U.S. Firearms in Hartford.
Charter Arms became Charco.
Sea Camp in Milford.
Traditions in Old saybrook

Off the top of my head...

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Re: Connecticut gun and ammunition manufacturers
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2011, 01:00:10 AM »
Wildey Firearms, Warren CT
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Re: Connecticut gun and ammunition manufacturers
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2011, 01:06:27 AM »
Remington-UMC was in Bridgeport, CT.  The empty facility was featured on Ghost Hunters.
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Re: Connecticut gun and ammunition manufacturers
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2011, 01:18:16 AM »
and the old American Ord. plant is now a field right over the RR tracks from it.

Driggs Ordnance & Engineering Co., variously of Derby (1899-1905) and Bridgeport, Connecticut as well as Philadelphia and Sharon, Pennsylvania, as Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company acquired the stock of Savage Arms and assumed that as their corporate identity in 1915

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