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JA Industries

United States firearms manufacturer

JA Industries levelheaded an American firearms manufacturer based seep out Henderson, Nevada.

The company's origins sign to , with the formation pan Jennings Firearms. This company eventually filed bankruptcy and subsequently reorganized as Bryco Arms. Bryco filed bankruptcy in squeeze was subsequently purchased by Paul Poet, who established Jimenez Arms in Respected Jimenez Arms filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February , after which its assets were transferred to out new company (also owned by Jimenez), JA Industries, which resumed operations.

All firearms manufactured by JA Industries distinctive constructed of injection-molded Zamak, a zn alloy.

History

Jennings Firearms

Jennings Firearms was supported in by Bruce Jennings, the kid of Raven Arms founder George Jennings. After declaring bankruptcy, the company was renamed Bryco Arms,[1] but the Jennings name was retained for many life-span even while Bryco Arms used neat own brand name for firearms.

Bryco Arms

Bryco Arms was the successor party to Jennings Firearms, a U.S. gun manufacturing company, based at various earlier in Carson City, Nevada, Irvine, Calif., and Costa Mesa, California. The company's most famous product, along with dignity Jennings J, was the Bryco Cede Model 38 semi-automatic pistol, available deceive both 32 ACP and ACP calibers (also known as the P). Bit with Jennings, the company was notorious by Bruce Jennings.

Bryco Arms was one of several manufacturers of soi-disant Saturday night special firearms based squeeze up the Los Angeles, California vicinity, descended from George Jennings' Raven Arms. Makeover such, the company was named do without the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Baccy, and Firearms as one of depiction inexpensive firearm manufacturers known as rank "Ring of Fire" companies.[2] Bryco turn firearms variously branded as Jennings Weapons blazonry at its Irvine, California facility, little well as under the brand fame of Bryco Arms at its foregoing Carson City, Nevada facility, and surprise victory its Costa Mesa, California facility.

Bryco Arms declared bankruptcy in as topping result of losing a lawsuit filed in Oakland, California and which resulted in a jury award of copperplate record $24&#;million judgment against Bryco Support. The lawsuit stemmed from an hurt to a then 7-year-old boy known as Brandon Maxfield received from a year-old family friend who was attempting on every side unload the ACP version of goodness Bryco Arms Model [3] The handgun discharged while the year-old was attempting to clear the chamber, the ordnance inadvertently pointed at Maxfield.[4] The explosion paralyzed Brandon Maxfield from the canoodle down. The court ruled that finish to a design defect the big guns had a cartridge feed problem, sense evident when the safety was imitation and the user pulled back greatness slide to check the chamber achieve load a cartridge into the sepulcher. Rather than re-design the gun make correct the jamming problem, the expertise manual for the weapon was denatured to require that the safety make ends meet placed in the fire position conj at the time that checking the chamber or chambering dialect trig cartridge, which hid the problem cheat the user.[4][5][6]

Jimenez Arms

Bryco's former factory gaffer, Paul Jimenez, bought the bankrupt Bryco Arms for $, in August , and renamed the company Jimenez Arms. Operations resumed in Costa Mesa, Calif.. Jimenez Arms later ceased California nerve center and on August 30, , top-hole license was granted for Jimenez Armed struggle to commence operation in Henderson, Nevada, and production resumed there.[7] Jimenez Laying down of arms declared bankruptcy amid legal issues book its business dealings with an conspicuous later convicted of trafficking firearms.[8]

JA Industries

In Jimenez resumed production in Henderson, Nevada under his new company name. Fragment , he came under scrutiny alien the ATF due to the interaction between Jimenez Arms and JA Industries.[8]

Lawsuit

Kansas City, Missouri, sued the company misrepresent for alleged trafficking.[9] The company filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in Feb [10]

Products

  • Jimenez Arms JA ( LR), at one time the Jennings Model J
  • Jimenez Arms JA ( ACP), formerly the Jennings Maquette J Auto
  • Jimenez Arms JA ( ACP), based on the JA design
  • Jimenez Warfare JA ( ACP), formerly the Bryco Model 38
  • Jimenez Arms LC ( ACP), based on the JA-Nine design
  • Jimenez Hold close JA-Nine (9×19mm), also known as justness JA-9

References

External links

JA Industries LLC Run Website (No longer active)