Smith & Wesson will keep some of its manufacturing operations in Springfield, Massachusetts , including all forging, machining, metal finishing, and assembly of revolvers, and will continue to have over 1,000 employees in the state.
Smith & Wesson has a long history of making firearms in Springfield, Mass., spanning back to the mid 1800s. The company has made revolvers at its current manufacturing facility there since the mid 1900s.
The parts are then boxed and shipped to the main Smith & Wesson plant at Springfield, Massachusetts for final assembly and tests. At the main plant, the barrels and slides for the M&P series are machined. The frames are unboxed and then paired with a slide and barrel.
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. , Aug. 24, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ Global Select: SWBI), a U.S. -based leader in firearm manufacturing and design, today announced that it has completed the previously announced spin-off of its outdoor products and accessories business.
Mossberg offers bolt-action, lever-action and auto-loading rifles as well as pump-action, auto-loading, and over/under shotguns. Manufacturing is done both in Turkey and in the US from parts made in both America and Mexico.
The company's Firearms segment manufactures handgun, long gun, and suppressor products sold under the iconic Smith & Wesson®, M&P®, Thompson/Center Arms™, and Gemtech® brands, as well as provides forging, machining, and precision plastic injection molding services.
Smith & Wesson – especially for the M&P Shield line of pistols – stayed within the United States. Both are considered the leaders in United States firearms manufacturing. The quality of their arms is well recognized throughout.
While there are some Glock models that are already made in the United States, the vast majority of Glock's models are still made in Austria only, where Gaston Glock first unveiled his revolutionary design for the Austrian army.
The Smith & Wesson M&P (Military and Police) is a polymer-framed, short recoil operated, locked breech semi-automatic pistol introduced in the summer of 2005 by the American company Smith & Wesson.
In the 1971 movie Dirty Harry, actor Clint Eastwood introduced the world to the double-action Smith & Wesson Model 29 . 44-cal. Magnum revolver—"the most powerful handgun in the world." It was a crown S&W wore proudly, albeit briefly.
The gunmaker Smith & Wesson, based in Springfield since it was founded in 1852, announced Thursday that it will move its headquarters to Tennessee, due to tough new gun manufacturing laws recently proposed on Beacon Hill.
Made in America
It also designs and produces everything from ammo to optics. Tom Taylor, SIG Sauer's chief marketing officer and executive vice president of commercial sales, succinctly summed this up: “SIG Sauer is an American company, and our firearms are 100 percent manufactured in the USA.
Only the Buck Mark, 1911-22, and 1911-380 pistols are made in the USA. Most of its guns are produced in Japan, but some are produced in Portugal and Belgium. Browning is owned by FN, which is headquartered in Belgium. All Bushmaster firearms are made in the USA.
GLOCK Pistols
GLOCK, Inc. began full production operations in 2013. All pistols manufactured in the United States include "U.S.A." and a small outline of the state of Georgia stamped on the slide. The GLOCK 42 is only manufactured in the United States.
Kimber will begin operations in early 2019, with a new design engineering and manufacturing facility in the City of Troy. Once a small manufacturing company based in Yonkers, NY, Kimber has grown at a rapid pace over the past 21 years with locations in the New York metro area and Montana.
Some Glock models are now being produced in the United States, although the majority of Glocks are still made in Austria. Like Sig Sauer, Inc., Glock, Inc. started as the distributor of Glock pistols in the United States.
Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc., better known by the shortened name Ruger, is an American firearm manufacturing company based in Southport, Connecticut, with production facilities also in Newport, New Hampshire; Mayodan, North Carolina; and Prescott, Arizona.
Beretta is an Italian gun maker that has been manufacturing guns in Maryland since the 1980s, when it started providing arms to the U.S. military, which required them to be American-made. The company, which is about 500 years old, had a factory in Accokeek, Maryland, about 20 miles south of Washington, D.C.
Even today, production of the Browning line is split largely between Miroku in Japan and Belgium/Portugal in Europe. Only Buck Mark, 1911-22 and 1911-380 pistols are made in the US.
The quality on the Glock just seems a little bit better than the Smith and Wesson M&P 1.0's. They're not bad guns and for the price, they're actually a really good value. But the quality overall, when you're comparing the gun straight up, just doesn't seem as good.
In 1974, Robert Reese used the name Springfield Armory to manufacture semi-automatic versions of the M14 rifle. This company, now owned and run by Reese's sons, manufactures a wide array of firearms under the Springfield Armory name.
Gaston Glock is the founder and majority owner of the Austrian gun manufacturer Glock GmbH. An engineer, Glock had his start by designing and manufacturing a pistol for the Austrian army in the early 1980s.