Fegyver- és Gépgyár
| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Small arms, general manufacturing |
| Founded | February 24, 1891 in Budapest |
| Defunct | 2004 |
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Rifles, handguns, water boilers and heaters, gas equipment, lamps, metalware |
| Website | www.fegarmy.hu (defunct) |
FÉG (Fegyver- és Gépgyár, "Arms and Machine Factory") refers to the now defunct Hungarian company Fegyver- és Gépgyártó Részvénytársaság ("Arms and Machine Manufacturing Company"), which was founded on February 24, 1891 in Budapest. The company was an important arms manufacturer in the country, but it also produced gas equipment, water heaters, lamps and miscellaneous metalware. Throughout its history it was renamed several times for various reasons; to Fémáru, Fegyver- és Gépgyár ("Metalware, Arms and Machine Factory") in 1935, to Lámpagyár ("Lamp Factory") in 1946, to Fegyver- és Gázkészülékgyár ("Arms and Gas Equipment Factory") in 1965. Decades later, in post-communist times it was renamed as FÉGARMY Fegyvergyártó Kft. ("FÉGARMY Arms Factory Ltd.").
Through its history it always fulfilled a crucial role in supplying the Honvédség with small arms, this company also manufactured and exported a variety of semi-automatic pistols and rifles, including the P9M and the PJK-9HP models (copies of the famous Browning Hi-Power) and the FÉG PA-63 (a Walther PP/PPK clone in 9x18mm Makarov), but currently only self-loading pistols (P9L, P9M, P9R, etc.) and break-barrel air rifles (LG 427, LG 527). In Hungary the company is also famous for its starting pistols, for example the GRP-9, as well as manufacturing most of the propane water boilers and heaters found in Hungarian panel houses. After 2004 many of its traditional export markets were put under embargo and this caused the company to go bankrupt.
