William B. Ruger
Inventor
1916 – 2002
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Who was William B. Ruger?
William Batterman Ruger partnered with Alexander McCormick Sturm in 1949 to establish Sturm, Ruger & Company. Their first product was the Ruger Standard, the most popular .22 caliber target pistol ever made in the US. After Sturm’s death in 1951, and under Ruger’s continued leadership, the company produced one of the widest variety of firearms of any manufacturer in the world.
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- Born
- Jun 21, 1916
Brooklyn - Also known as
- William Ruger
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Lived in
- Prescott
- Died
- Jul 6, 2002
Prescott
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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