Positive article about Stag Arms in Hartford newspaper

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http://www.courant.com/business/hc-cornershop0716.artjul16,0,4206019.story

Interesting article. I was surprised that left handed rifles are 50% of their business. The founder started the company in part because he is left eye dominant and wanted to make lefty ARs. Follow the link to read the rest.

As a boy, Mark Malkowski used a regular, right-handed rifle when he went to his target shooting club in Southington. But he had to switch the gun to his left side to use it.

"I'm right-handed, but left-eye dominant," he explained.

The constant shuffle was partly the impetus, years later, for founding his own manufacturing company, said Malkowski, 30, president of Stag Arms LLC.

The 5-year-old firm's signature products are its left-handed AR-15-type rifles designed for southpaws or marksmen who are left-eye dominant. The lightweight, semiautomatic, 5.56 mm rifles were developed by the military in the 1960s but have been adapted for civilian and law enforcement use.

 

[Underwhere]

I think Stags are known for that.

I have an AR15 and included in the purchase was a T-shirt with some funny comment about being lefty or something.

 

[vellnueve]

I'm not surprised that that's so much of Stag's business. They're pretty much the only game in town on left ARs.

 

[Chuck Would]

I'm not surprised that that's so much of Stag's business. They're pretty much the only game in town on left ARs.

No, not really. DPMS has lefty uppers. I had a lefty AR build with DPMS parts several years ago. Well before Stag Arms started production.

 

[FPrice]

The lightweight, semiautomatic, 5.56 mm rifles were developed by the military in the 1960s but have been adapted for civilian and law enforcement use.

Nice phrase there.

 

[drew]

Being a south Paw, I appreciate both companies for doing so, I do know that DPMS different offer brass deflectors on their lefties.... at least a year ago they didnt..