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Arcadia Machine and Tool

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Industry
  
Firearms

Products
  
Weapons

Founded
  
1977

Area served
  
U.S.

Headquarters
  
Irwindale

Fate
  
Bankruptcy

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Successor
  
Irwindale Arms Incorporated

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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.

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AMT was described by the U.S. BATF as one of the "Ring of Fire companies", 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.

Pistols

  • AutoMag
  • 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:

  • Centerfire single-shot bolt action rifles in numerous calibers
  • Lightning
  • Magnum Hunter, a magazine fed .22WMR bolt action carbine
  • References

    Arcadia Machine & Tool Wikipedia