FIREARM MAKERS ============================================================================== The 190 makers Wikipedia names, extracted on 2026-09-12 rather than recalled. A name here means Wikipedia files it as a firearm manufacturer. It does NOT mean a dating scheme exists, is published, or can be transcribed. WHAT THIS IS FOR ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dating a firearm from its serial number is what collectors, insurers, estates and auction houses do, and it is what the manufacturers themselves publish pages for. Browning already proved it: their Date Your Firearm pages give a universal letter cipher for 1975 onward - Z=1 Y=2 X=3 W=4 V=5 T=6 R=7 P=8 N=9 M=0 - plus 120 year rows across 40 models, and they say plainly that pre-war dating is "strictly a guess". This list is the pool for finding who else publishes the same. THERE IS NO "FIREARM MANUFACTURERS" CATEGORY ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Checked, one by one. Wikipedia files firearm makers per country, so the pool comes from: Firearm manufacturers of the United States Defunct firearms manufacturers Names tried that do NOT exist as categories, listed so the gap is visible rather than silently counted as zero: Firearm manufacturers Gun manufacturers Rifle manufacturers Shotgun manufacturers 6 makers were added by name, each checked against Wikipedia first. The pool is US-weighted deliberately: the search demand behind this page is American and brand-specific. Beretta Glock GmbH Heckler & Koch Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod FN Herstal Benelli Armi THE FULL LIST (190 names) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A & B High Performance Firearms Adcor Defense Advanced Armament Corporation Alliant Techsystems American Derringer American Precision Museum Arcadia Machine & Tool ArmaLite Arms Tech Limited Armscor (Philippines) ASTAR (company) Astra-Unceta y Cia SA Auto-Ordnance Corporation Barrett Firearms Manufacturing Bay State Arms Beistegui Hermanos Benelli Armi Beretta Birdsboro Steel Birmingham Small Arms Company BMARC Bond Arms Browning Arms Company Bushmaster Firearms International Calico Light Weapons Systems Century International Arms CETME Charles Daly firearms Charter Arms Cobra Firearms Cobray Company Colt Canada Colt Defense Colt's Manufacturing Company Confederate Armory Site Coonan Arms Cooper Firearms of Montana Dan Wesson Firearms Daniel Defense Davis Industries Dead Air Silencers Defense Distributed Desert Tech Detonics Deutsche Waffen- und Munitionsfabriken Deutsche Werke Diemaco Dillon Aero DPMS Panther Arms DuBiel Arms Company E. Remington & Sons Eddystone Arsenal Fabrique d'armes Émile et Léon Nagant Federal Laboratories Ferfrans FN Herstal Forehand & Wadsworth Freedom Arms Fábrica de Braço de Prata Fábrica Nacional de Munições de Armas Ligeiras Glock GmbH Great Western Arms Company Grendel Inc. Griffin & Howe Gunfoundry Harpers Ferry Armory Harrington & Richardson Harris Gunworks Heckler & Koch Henry Repeating Arms Hi-Point Firearms High Standard Manufacturing Company Hispano-Argentina Hopkins & Allen Hotchkiss Ordnance Company Intratec Ithaca Gun Company Iver Johnson J. C. Higgins JA Industries John Inglis and Company John Rigby & Company Joseph Brazier Kahr Arms Kalashnikov USA KelTec Kimber Manufacturing Knight's Armament Company Lazzeroni Les Baer Lewis Machine & Tool Company Ljutic Industries Llama Firearms London Armoury Company London Small Arms Co. Ltd Lorcin Engineering Company LWRC International Magnum Research Magpul Marble Arms Marlin Firearms Massachusetts Arms Company McMillan Firearms Menasco Motors Company Meriden Firearms Co. Merwin & Hulbert Metal Storm Microtech Knives Military Armament Corporation Montana Rifle Company National Arms Company New England Small Arms New England Westinghouse Company Nighthawk Custom NIOA North American Arms Norton Armaments Noveske Rifleworks O.F. Mossberg & Sons Olympic Arms Overman Wheel Company Palmetto State Armory Para USA Parker Bros. Parker-Hale Patriot Ordnance Factory Państwowa Fabryka Karabinów Peters Cartridge Company Phoenix Arms Polymer80 Raven Arms RemArms Remington Arms Remington Outdoor Company Remington Rand Robinson Armament Co. Rock River Arms Royal Small Arms Factory Röhm Gesellschaft Sabre Defence Savage Arms Seecamp Serbu Firearms Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Company SIG Sauer SilencerCo Simson (company) Smith & Wesson Smith Enterprise, Inc. Socimi Sportco Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute Springfield Armory Springfield Armory, Inc. SSK Firearms Stag Arms Standard Manufacturing Star Bonifacio Echeverria Sterling Armaments Company Stevens Arms Stevens-Duryea Stoeger Industries Strayer Voigt Inc Sturm, Ruger & Co. Sundance Industries Taurus Armas Textron Marine & Land Systems Thomas Ketland Thompson/Center Arms Tobin Arms Troy Industries U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Company U.S. Ordnance U.S. Repeating Arms Company Union Metallic Cartridge Company Valtion Kivääritehdas Vickers Limited Vickers-Armstrongs Victor Steam Vincenzo Bernardelli S.p.A. (firearms) Virginia Manufactory of Arms Vista Outdoor Water Shops Armory Weatherby Western Cartridge Company Wilson Combat Winchester Repeating Arms Company XADS Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Extracted 2026-09-12. 190 makers. 1 implemented on the site so far (Browning, on the date-code page).