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Browning To Build Winchester Firearms
By Russ Thurman, Editor
Winchester announced in August that it has entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Browning for the manufacture and distribution of Winchester brand rifles and shotguns.
“With this new agreement, Winchester is confident Browning will produce innovative firearms worthy of the Winchester name, continuing a tradition that people around the world associate with the Winchester brand,” said Richard Hammett, Winchester Ammunition president. “We are proud of our heritage as ‘The Gun That Won the West’ and consider this arrangement as entering a new era for the legendary Winchester firearms brand.”
The agreement comes four months after the closing of the U.S. Repeating Arms Co. manufacturing facility in New Haven, Conn. A major campaign to reopen the plant failed and the facility’s equipment was due to be sold at auction in late September.
Browning has handled the sales and marketing for Winchester firearms for more than a decade. The new agreement provides additional opportunities for the legendary brand, according to Charles Guevremont, Browning president.
“We are more committed today than ever before to the development of exciting new Winchester firearm designs. We will continually strive to build the quality products that generations of loyal Winchester customers have come to expect and will be proud to own and use for decades to come,” Guevremont said.
For 2007, Winchester will introduce additions to its Select over-and-under shotguns, updates to the Super X Rifle (SXR) and variations to the .22 bolt-action Wildcat, according to Paul Thompson, of Browning/Winchester.
“We won’t have as many new introductions next year as we’d like, but we’ll have a lot more new guns for 2008,” Thompson said. “We are going to be very aggressive in our introduction of Winchester guns.”
Will the Models 94, 70 and 1300, guns discontinued with the closing of the New Haven plant, be reintroduced? For legal reasons, officials aren’t making any comments concerning the fate of the three models. Because of contract-binding agreements, the guns cannot be legally made — for now. It is likely, however, that once the agreements expire, some of the models will reappear.
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