Sturm, Ruger & Co.

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Sturm, Ruger & Co.

logo
legal form Corporation
ISIN US8641591081
founding 1949
Seat Southport (Connecticut) United States
United StatesUnited States 
management Michael O. Fifer ( CEO )
Number of employees 1811
sales 495.6 million US dollars
Branch Firearms
Website www.ruger.com
As of December 31, 2018

Old logo of the company Sturm, Ruger

The Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is an American weapons and former automobile manufacturer that is based in Southport (Connecticut) has.

Company history

Ruger standard
Ruger No. 1 carabiner with drop block lock

Sturm, Ruger & Company was founded in 1949 by William B. Ruger and Alexander McCormick Sturm in Southport, Connecticut.

The establishment of the company Sturm, Ruger & Co. began with the manufacture of firearms. In 1949, William Ruger made two replicas of the Japanese Nambu pistol from World War II . From this he developed the Ruger Standard in caliber 22lfb . The MK I, MK II and III models were subsequently developed from this and are still in production today. Alexander Sturm invested a sum of 50,000 US dollars under the impression of the prototype of the Ruger Standard, with which the two could start production. Alexander Sturm also developed the company logo, a heraldic red eagle with the letters "SR" on the chest. In the years that followed, the Sturm, Ruger & Co. company focused on sporting weapons in various calibers. But firearms were also developed for military use, the police and for hunting purposes. Today the company manufactures all types of handguns .

Firearms

Handguns

Pistols with center fire cartridges

  • Ruger Hawkeye (no longer in production)
  • Ruger P series (no longer in production)
  • Ruger SR9 (no longer in production)
  • Ruger American Pistol
  • Ruger Security-9
  • Ruger SR1911
  • Ruger LCP
  • Ruger LCP II
  • Ruger LC9
  • Ruger LC380
  • Ruger LC9s
  • Ruger-57 ( 5.7 × 28 mm )

Pistols with rimfire

  • Ruger Standard (no longer in production)
  • Ruger MK II (no longer in production)
  • Ruger MK III (no longer in production)
  • Ruger MK IV
  • Ruger SR22
  • 22 chargers

Double-Action Revolver

Single-action revolver

  • Ruger Bearcat
  • Ruger single-six
  • Ruger Blackhawk
  • Ruger Super Blackhawk
  • Ruger Vaquero
  • Ruger Wrangler
  • Ruger Old Army (no longer in production)

Rifles

Bolt action rifles

  • Ruger M77
  • Ruger Gunsite Scout
  • Ruger Model 77 rotary magazine
  • Ruger American Rifle
  • Ruger American Rimfire
  • Ruger Precision Rifle

Automatic rifles

  • Ruger Model 44 (no longer in production)
  • Ruger 10/22
  • Ruger 10/17 (no longer in production)
  • Ruger Mini 14
  • Ruger Mini Thirty
  • Ruger XGI (development stopped)
  • Ruger Police Carbine
  • Ruger Deerfield Carbine (no longer in production)
  • Ruger AR-556
  • Ruger SR-556 (no longer in production)
  • Ruger SR-762 (no longer in production)
  • Ruger MP9

More firearms

  • Ruger Model 96
  • Ruger No. 1
  • Ruger No. 3
  • Ruger Red Label
  • Ruger Gold Label

Automobile manufacturing

From 1969 to 1972, Sturm, Ruger & Co. built a two-door roadster with four seats called the Ruger Sports Tourer . The car was similar to the Bentley 4½ liter from the early 1930s. The body was made of fiberglass-reinforced plastic , only the bonnet was made of aluminum. The carriage of a powered Ford -V8 engine with 6997 cc capacity, of 425 bhp (312.5 kW) at 6000 min -1 mobilized. The 1540 kg car accelerated from 0-100 km / h in 7.7 s and reached a top speed of 177 km / h.

The wheelbase was 3302 mm, the total length 4699 mm. It was available for $ 13,000.

literature

  • National Rifle Association of America: Ruger , National Rifle Association of America, 1990, ISBN 978-0-935998-61-0 .
  • John Gunnell: Standard Catalog of American Cars 1946-1975 . Krause Publications, Inc. Iola, Wisconsin (2002), ISBN 978-0-87349-461-8 .
  • RL Wilson: Ruger & His Guns; A History Of The Man, The Company And Their Firearms. 1996, ISBN 978-0-7858-2103-8 .

Web links

Commons : Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc.  - Collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Board of Directors & Corporate Officers
  2. ↑ Sturm Ruger: SEC-Filing Form 10-K , accessed on April 6, 2019
  3. ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Ruger.
  4. ^ A b George Nick Georgano (Editor-in-Chief): The Beaulieu Encyclopedia of the Automobile. Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Chicago 2001, ISBN 1-57958-293-1 , p. 1387. (English)