Remington: A Great American Inventor

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Remington - A Real American Inventor

Remington - A Real American Inventor

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March 02, 2021   A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. Gun News Remington - A Real American Inventor Eliphalet Remington II, (born October 28, 1793, Suffield, Connecticut, U.S. - died August 12, 1861, Ilion, New York) joined his father as a blacksmith and used his talents to become one of the greatest American arms inventors and manufacturers in the nation. U.S. Remington II founded what was to eventually become the Remingtom Arms Company 1816. Initially he only produced rifle barrels with his father who operated a forge at Illion Gultch, New York. But his company eventually became one of the leading commercial and military arms makers in the United States. In 1828 Remington built a factory beside the Erie Canal at the present site of Ilion, New York, where he and his son Philo pioneered many improvements in arms manufacture, including the first successful cast-steel drilled rifle barrel manufactured in the United States. Though Remington died at the outbreak of the American Civil War (1861-65), the company he founded made thousands of arms for the Union, notably the "Zouave" percussion rifle and the New Model Army and Navy revolvers. Beginning in 1865-66, E. Remington & Sons was famous for its Joseph Rider patented single-shot "rolling-block" breech-loading action, which was incorporated in more than 1.5 million military and commercial rifles, carbines, shotguns, and pistols that the company produced over the next four decades. All of Remington's product line were known for quality and he vied with Oliver Fisher Winchester as the premier long-arm and ammunition manufacturer in the United States throughout the 20th century. Among its noted firearms were the Model 870 pump-action shotgun, the Model 700 bolt-action rifle, and the Model 1100 semiautomatic shotgun. In existence for roughly two centuries, Remington is rightly known as America's oldest gunmaker.

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