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Henry Repeating Arms Company
Company typePrivate
IndustryFirearms
HeadquartersBayonne, New Jersey, USA
ProductsFirearms, weapons
Websitewww.henryrifles.com

Henry Repeating Arms is a firearms manufacturing company, one of the top five long gun manufacturers in the United States and the leading lever action manufacturer.

History

Henry Repeating Arms adopted its name from Benjamin Tyler Henry, the inventor who patented the first lever action, repeating rifle in 1860. The Henry Repeating Arms Company has no actual association with either the New Haven Arms Company, which manufactured the original Henry rifles and was later renamed the Winchester Repeating Arms Company in 1866, or to Benjamin Tyler Henry, its inventor. However, some critics contend that HRA's advertising and marketing is misleading and encourages many potential buyers into believing that some historical connection to B.T. Henry's original rifle exists where it clearly does not. The company does own the rights to its own, similar name, its trademark and copyrights to the name Henry.

The company resurrected the Henry name in 1996[1] and started manufacturing the H001, a .22 caliber, lever action rifle in Brooklyn, New York. This first rifle was essentially an American made copy of a rifle previously made in Germany by Erma, imported into the US by Ithaca and called the model 72 saddle gun. In September 2008 the company moved its headquarters to a 100,000 square feet (9,300 m2) facility in Bayonne, New Jersey and presently employs 250 people. The company also owns a 140,000 square feet (13,000 m2) facility in Rice Lake, Wisconsin which employs 175 people. It is where they cast and machine the receivers for the Henry rifles as well as supplying other gun parts.

Production

Henry Repeating Arms also produces bolt action and pump-action rimfire rifles as well as a new generation of the AR-7 takedown rifle, which was originally designed for the U.S. Air Force and is now known as the Henry US Survival Rifle. The Henry Golden Boy is the company's signature model, featuring a Brasslight receiver and octagonal barrel. They also have a selection of centerfire lever action rifles in both hardened brass and steel. Also new is a lever action "30/30" model whose operating bolt and action bears a strong resemblance to Marlin's truly venerable model 336.

In 2013 the company announced production of a copy of the rifle which made B. Tyler Henry famous and eventually began the Winchester legacy. The new rifle is advertised as being "true to the [original] design of the vaunted 1860 Henry rifle" complete with a brass receiver and American walnut stock, but with a modern steel barrel and internal components. The rifle will be chambered in .44-40 Winchester, a cartridge the original Henry was never chambered for but which offers the owner the convenience of readily available center fire ammunition. Manufacture of this model represents the first American production of a Henry style replica rifle in 150 years. Special edition versions are available with engraving and other features.

Promotion

The company mottos are "Made In America and Priced Right" and "Made in America or Not Made At All". The original Henry rifle was known as the gun you could "Load On Sunday and shoot all week long". Henry rifles are available at sporting good retailers and gun shops throughout the United States.

Firearms

In addition, Henry makes many commemorative special editions of its rifles.

References

  1. ^ American Rifleman p. 26
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