The Business of Guns

This video provides a look at the Smith & Wesson Model 629 revolver.

Remington Arms: Two Centuries of Making Guns

Remington Arms calls itself America’s oldest gunmaker. And while some competitors did mass-produce firearms before it did, none has managed to survive through two centuries like it has. Founder Eliphalet Remington was something of a manufacturing whiz kid. His father had been a blacksmith in central New York. Remington worked alongside his father, and at the age of just 23 he built his own rifle, purchasing the trigger from a gunsmith and manufacturing the rest with his own hands. Remington earned a great deal of respect for his creation, especially after using it to take second place in a shooting competition in Utica: he entered a contestant and left a businessman, taking several orders “before he had left the field.” At the time, handmade guns were common but usually very low in quality. In 1828, Remington’s skill allowed him to set up company headquarters in Ilion (still used today as a manufacturing plant), where the completion of

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