Sturm, Ruger & Co.
Sturm, Ruger & Co.
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legal form | Corporation |
ISIN | US8641591081 |
founding | 1949 |
Seat |
Southport (Connecticut) United 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 |
The Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. is an American weapons and former automobile manufacturer that is based in Southport (Connecticut) has.
Company history
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
- Ruger Security-Six (no longer in production)
- Ruger SP101
- Ruger GP100
- Ruger Redhawk
- Ruger Super Redhawk
- Great Redhawk Alaskan
- Ruger LCR
- Ruger GP100
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Board of Directors & Corporate Officers
- ↑ Sturm Ruger: SEC-Filing Form 10-K , accessed on April 6, 2019
- ↑ Harald H. Linz, Halwart Schrader : The International Automobile Encyclopedia . United Soft Media Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-8032-9876-8 , chapter Ruger.
- ^ 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)