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The Savage Arms Company is a firearms manufacturing company based in New York. The company makes a variety of Rimfire and Centerfire rifles, as well as marketing the Stevens Single-shot rifles and shotguns. They may be best-known for the Model 99 Hammerless lever-action rifle, no longer in production, and the very popular .300 Savage sporting cartridge, which was the parent case for the 7.62x51 NATO cartridge. HISTORY Savage Arms was founded in 1894 by Arthur Savage in Utica, New York . Within 20 years they were producing rifles, handguns, and ammunition. Savage merged with the Driggs-Seabury Ordnance Company during World War I and produced Lewis Machine Guns . In 1920 Savage bought Stevens Arms . In 1939, Savage introduced the Model 24 , a rare U.S. Double Rifle , which is actually an over-under rifle/shotgun combination that sold over a million copies.Harold Murtz. ''Gun Digest Treasury'' (DBI Books, 1994), p.197 During World War II, Savage turned again to military production, making heavy munition. After the war it produced the first motorized lawnmower. The company was run by a variety of owners from the 1960s to the 1980s. Savage eventually ran into financial trouble in 1988 and filed for bolt-action rifle. A turn-around began in 1995 with the company returning to private ownership, lead by Ronald Coburn , previously of Smith & Wesson . Today the company produces a wide variety of firearms and has a reputation for producing accurate, inexpensive rifles. Some of their recent success can be attributed to their development in 2002 of a factory-installed, safe, user-adjustable Trigger , called the ''AccuTrigger''. Savage was awarded the ''Manufacturer of the Year'' by the Shooting Industry Academy of Excellence in 2003. LOCATIONS Savage maintains its headquarters in Westfield, Massachusetts in the United States. The company also manufactures .22LR rimfire rifles in Canada and manufactures its wood Stocks at a factory in Connecticut. CANADIAN EXPORTS According to company officials, the Canadian division of Savage Arms exports 97 percent of its rifles, mostly to the US.Testimony of Barrie King, Vice-President and General Manager, to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs, November 24, 1997. SEE ALSO REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS |
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