Does Remington Own H&R Firearms?

Remington, Marlin, Bushmaster, H&R are all divisions of Cerberus.

In fact, as of last year the H&R facility in Gartner, MA was shut down and production of the H&Rs moved to Ilion.

Cerebus owns Everybody

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Group

Not everyone. Remember the Beretta family owns many. Some of the Beretta owned companies are Beretta, Benelli, Stoger, MDI, and several others.

There are still a lot of independent makers - S&W, Ruger, Kimber for starters.

Jim

And Winchester is just a word that is bought and sold to brand everything from rifles to pocket knives to gun safes to clothing to...

Winchester is owned, like Browning, by FN. Beretta group also owns Sako and Tikka, and I am thinking they will be buying some of the high-end Italian small shotgun makers as the owners retire, like Bertuzzi, Perazzi, etc. Just a guess......

It could be worse. Does the name Umarex ring a bell?

Taurus owns Rossi.

Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding the entrance to hell. Hmmm. Joe

H&R went out of business in 1986. It was reconstituted in 1991 as H&R 1871, which Marlin bought in 2000. Remington bought Marlin in 2007, and H&R, wholly owned by Marlin by that time, came with the package.

pharmer said:

Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding the entrance to hell. Hmmm. Joe

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Yes it is and that is what I am going to name my next dog. I got a daughter who will be a teenager soon and she is growing up fast.

Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding the entrance to hell.

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Hades, not Hell. Hades was both the god of the underworld and the place where all mortals went after death. In much of the Greek and Roman mythology, the place is generally pretty gloomy even for the virtuous and heroic; although later stories include places like Elysium. Cerberus was there to keep the dead from trying to escape after they had crossed the Styx.

Winchester isn't really "owned" by FN, since there's really no Winchester (firearms) company to own.
Browning licenses the name from Olin Corp to allow FN to apply it to whatever they want. Some Winchesters are produced domestically at the FNUSA plant, those produced overseas are imported & marketed by Browning.
Denis

Cerberus was there to keep the dead from trying to escape after they had crossed the Styx.

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Oh, so the boatman across the Styx charged to get to Hades, but the trip back was free?

Cerberus, the 3 headed dog guarding the entrance to hell.

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I thought that was my old girlfriend. My mistake.

Cerberus won't own these companies for much longer. The Freedom Group has begun the legal process for an IPO. Pretty soon they will be a publicly traded company.

Jim Keenan said:

There are still a lot of independent makers - S&W, Ruger, Kimber for starters.

Jim

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"Independent" is not privately held. S&W and Ruger are publicly traded.