Henry Repeating Arms

Henry Repeating Arms

Infobox Company
company_name = Henry Repeating Arms Company
company_
company_type = Private
location = Brooklyn, New York, USA
industry = Firearms
products = Firearms, weapons
homepage = [http://www.henryrepeating.com/ www.henryrepeating.com]

Henry Repeating Arms is a Bayonne, New Jersey based firearms company. The company takes its name from Benjamin Tyler Henry's Henry rifle. The company makes several rimfire and centerfire rifles and are best known for their lever-action rifles, and octagonal barrel crossections on many of the guns. The Henry "Big Boy" is a centerfire rifle that is available in several chamberings. The Henry "Golden Boy" rifle is a .22 rimfire that is styled after the Winchester Model 66 "Yellow Boy", including the brass receiver. They are also known for producing high quality versions of the Armalite AR-7 survival rifle, used in the James Bond film From Russia With Love as an assassin's weapon; they currently own the license for that weapon, now known as the U.S. Survival .22 LR.

B. Tyler Henry conceived the first practical lever action repeating rifle, patented in 1860. The Henry gave a single man the firepower of a dozen marksmen armed with muzzle-loading muskets. Used successfully by the Union in the Civil War, one Confederate officer remarked "It's a rifle that you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long."

The company's slogan is "Made in America and Priced Right," a reference to their New Jersey factory and lower prices than other manufacturers.

References

External links

* [http://www.henryrepeating.com/ Henry Repeating Arms homepage]

Reference

*American Rifleman, May 2008; P. 26


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