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In 1965 gun designer Warren Center joined the firm. Like Thompson, he'd worked as a machinist and die maker. He'd also built firearms for Iver Johnson and Harrington & Richardson. In his basement shop, Center had designed a single-shot pistol he called the Contender.
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2 maj 2024 · Outdoor industry figure Gregg Ritz announced on Monday that he had acquired Thompson/Center Arms and plans to "reinvigorate the brand and its legacy in the firearms market." Ritz was...
16 lis 2017 · The design of Warren Center's Contender was based on a massive but easily removed hinge pin forward on the action, held in place by the forend and mated to an opening in the locking lug below the barrel, with the lug dropping into a recess in the bottom of the receiver.
3 maj 2004 · At the end of the M14 production, Warren was named the head of R&D at H&R and during his tenure there he continued working on his design of the Contender evenings and weekends in the basement machine shop at his home in Westminster, Mass.
In a thrilling development for firearms enthusiasts, Thompson/Center Arms, a venerable name in American gun manufacturing, announces its triumphant return.
11 godz. temu · Nov. 6, 2024, 12:03 p.m. ET. Warren M. Washington, a scientist who helped invent one of the first computer models of the earth’s atmosphere, paving the way to accurately measure human-induced ...
7 maj 2024 · Gregg Ritz, former owner of Thompson/Center Arms, has officially reacquired the company. Smith & Wesson purchased the company in January 2007, when Ritz was president and CEO, for $102...