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Astra Arms SA
(Sitz: Sion)
SHAB-Nr.: 170 - 03.09.2008
Grund: Handelsregister (Mutationen)
- Eingetragene Personen
Astra Arms SA, à Sion, CH-626.3.011.114-6, société anonyme (FOSC no 145 du 30. 07. 2007, p. 18, publ. 4047890). Inscription ou modification de personne: NOFIVAL SA, à Martigny (CH-621.3.002.011-3), organe de révision [précédemment: Nofida Nouvelle Fiduciaire SA, à Martigny].
Tagebuch Nr. 1466 vom 28.08.2008
(04636546/CH62630111146)
Astra Arms S.A. - Switzerland
In the year 2008, 100 years after the foundation of Esperanza y Unceta (Astra Unceta y Cía), a Swiss firearms manufacturing company, founded by the Italian entrepreneur Massimo Garbarino and located in the city of Sion, has adopted the name Astra Arms S.A. and took over the rights on the Astra trademark.[2] Although the company website is yet "Under Construction" as for early April 2009, official company literature states that Astra Arms S.A. will "manufacture handguns and rifles for self-defence, target shooting, professional training and law enforcement"; the company registration available on the Internet, states its activities as "Production, commerce, maintenance and reparation of firearms of all sorts and ammunitions, as well as of electronic, mechanical and other optical accessories".[3] According to sources gathered by Italian gun magazines at the 2008 EXA arms expo (Brescia, Italy, April 12-15, 2008), Astra Arms S.A. will establish a manufacturing line for high level 1911 and a manufacturing line for AR-15 rifles, StG-15 & StG-4, to be distributed on the European, Asian, South American and African market so to circumvent American regulations currently requiring the issue of an End user certificate for every single firearm of that kind that is exported from the Country, even when manufactured for the civilian market.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra-Unceta_y_Cia_SA
Site en construction :
http://www.astra-arms.ch/