“Tag: Italy”

Some of the world’s most elegant semi-automatic shotguns are built at the small Cosmi facility on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, and Nighthawk is the company’s exclusive importer in the United States.

Watch American Rifleman staff on the range this week to learn about a 12-ga. scattergun from J.P. Sauer & Sohn: Meet the SL5 Waterfowl featuring brown cerakote and an old-school camouflage finish.

The company made its humble start in 1963—in Gussago, Italy—when Giuseppe Pietta made a commitment to produce guns as authentic and true-to-original as possible. Customer experience was, and still is, the primary focus, a key to the firm’s longevity and success.

A recent trip to Italy as a guest of Fiocchi afforded me an inside look at where and, more importantly, how Fiocchi ammunition is made. As our small cadre of gun writers entered the hallways leading to the boardroom in the company’s headquarters in Lecco...

Davide Pedersoli launched the business bearing his name in Italy, at first specializing in the production of over-under and side-by-side shotguns for hunting. Word of the quality coming out of his factory quickly spread, though, and today the firm produces classic American firearms alongside other fine sporting guns.

It all began in 1526, when Mastro Bartolomeo Beretta of Gardone Val Trompia, Brescia, Italy, received 296 ducats as payment for 185 arquebus barrels.

On this week’s “Gun of the Week,” NRA’s American Rifleman staff examine a Italian-made revolver chambered for 10 mm Auto.

If you’ve had the news on at all, you have, no doubt, come in contact with the term “supply chain.“ While newsreaders seem principally occupied with the acquisition of toilet paper, the supply chain is slowly wreaking some havoc among companies in the firearm industry as well.

Isidoro Rizzini established Fabbrica Armi Isidoro Rizzini (FAIR) in Brescia, Italy, back in 1971, and today the maker offers a full line of over-under and side-by-side shotguns.