What New England companies are currently making guns, gun parts, or ammunition which can be purchased by civilians in New England? I'll start:
CT:
MA:
ME:
NH:
RI:
VT:
Lost New England manufacturers:
Oh, and where is "gun valley"? ... ... One person said the Connecticut River Valley from Springfield on down past Colt, Marlin and Winchester. But that leaves out the whole Blackstone Valley also of Worcester to the Narragansett bay, let alone northern NE
CT:
- Chaparral Arms [Shelton]
- Charter Arms and subsidiary Chaparral Arms [Shelton]
- Colt [Hartford]
- Connecticut Shotgun [New Britain]
- Marlin Firearms [New Haven]
- PTR 91, Inc[Unionville]
- United States Fire Arms [Hartford]
- Mossberg & Sons Inc. [North Haven]
- Ruger [Southport]
- Seecamp [Milford] (MOVED TO SOUTHWICK, MA??)
- Stag Arms [New Britain]
MA:
- Auto-Ordnance [Worcester]
- Davinci Arms [Ludlow]
- Kahr (Saeilo) [Worcester]
- NEF [Gardner]
- Remsport [Ludlow]
- S&W [Springfield]
- Savage [Westfield]
- Troy Industries [Lee]
- Whalley (Seecamp) [Southwick]
- Yankee Hill Machine [Florence]
- ZM weapons [Bernardston]
ME:
- Smith & Wesson (Walther pistols) [Houlton]
- Bushmaster [Windham]
NH:
- Advanced Cartridge Company LLC [Manchester]
- Gonic Arms [Gonic] are they "gone-ic"?
- Heckler & Koch [Newington]
- Lusa USA [Hookset/Webster]
- Sig Arms [Exeter]
- Tandemkross [Weare]
- Thompson Center [Rochester]
- Competitor Corporation, Inc. [Jaffrey]
- Remcon/North Corporation [Meredith] 1-800-PEN-GUNS
- Ruger [Newport]
- Warner Sights [Swanzey]
- Samson Manufacturing Corp.[Keene]
RI:
VT:
- Century [Fairfax, VT]
- Robbins and Lawrence [Windsor]
Lost New England manufacturers:
- Allen and Thurber [Worcester]
- Bay State Arms [Uxbridge]
- Dan Wesson [Monson]
- Ethan Allen [city?]
- H&R [Worcester] see: in January of 1986 they went out of business and The first Harrington & Richardson company was founded in 1871 as Wesson & Harrington. The old H&R company went out of business in 1986, and the building was demolished.
- Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works [Fitchburg]
- J. Stevens A&T Company [Chicopee Falls] (from this post)
- N.R. Davis & Sons [Assonet (Freetown)]
- Noble [Haydenville]
- Spencer Arms [Boston]
- Winchester [New Haven] see: Winchester closes its doors in New Haven for good
- Waters [Millbury] see: Waters and GUNMAKER ASA WATERS
- Reinhard T. Torkelson [Boston] started manufacturing shotguns [Worcester] ~1900 & operated in [Warren] MA 1903-08.
Oh, and where is "gun valley"? ... ... One person said the Connecticut River Valley from Springfield on down past Colt, Marlin and Winchester. But that leaves out the whole Blackstone Valley also of Worcester to the Narragansett bay, let alone northern NE
Coyote, I made a map based on your list.
Map
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