Arcadia Machine & Tool
 | |
| Industry | Firearms |
|---|---|
| Fate | Bankruptcy |
| Successor | Irwindale Arms Incorporated |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Headquarters | Irwindale, California, U.S. |
Area served | U.S. |
| Products | Weapons |
Arcadia Machine & Tool, commonly abbreviated to AMT, was a firearms manufacturer from Irwindale, California. The company produced several weapons, primarily clones of existing firearms, but made from stainless steel rather than the traditional steel used for most firearms of the time.[1] It operated between about 1984 to 1998.[2] Auto Mag Corporation was its predecessor,
AMT was described by the U.S. BATF as one of the "Ring of Fire companies",[3] known for their large-scale manufacture of Saturday night specials. The company filed for bankruptcy after their products were plagued with quality and reliability problems, and the assets and trademark were acquired by IAI (Irwindale Arms Incorporated). Later, in 1998, Galena Industries of Sturgis, South Dakota purchased the company and produced firearms in the style of AMT's until 2001 when Crusader Gun Co. (now High Standard) of Houston, Texas purchased it.[2]
Products
Pistols
- AMT Baby AutoMag
- AMT AutoMag II
- AMT AutoMag III
- AMT AutoMag IV
- AMT AutoMag V
- AMT AutoMag 440
- AMT Backup
- AMT Hardballer
- AMT On Duty
- AMT Lightning 25/22
- AMT Lightning pistol
- Magnum Hunter
Rifles
AMT produced the following rifles:[4]
- Centerfire single-shot bolt action rifles in numerous calibers
- Lightning
- Magnum Hunter, a magazine fed .22WMR bolt action carbine
References
- ↑ Shideler, Dan (2010). Gun Digest 2011. Iola, Wisconsin: Krause Publications. p. 114. ISBN 978-1-4402-1561-2. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- 1 2 Dan Shideler; Jerry Lee (2012). 2012 Standard Catalog of Firearms: The Collector's Price & Reference Guide. Iola Wisconsin: Krause Publications. pp. 50–51, 472. ISBN 978-1-4402-1688-6. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
- ↑ "Hot Guns: Ring of Fire". Frontline. PBS. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
- ↑ http://www.amtguns.net/