Industry Firearms manufacturing | Founder George Lars Kellgren | |
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Founded 1987; 30 years ago (1987) in the USA | ||
Grendel Inc., founded by George Kellgren, was a Florida firearms company which produced polymer framed semi-automatic pistols from 1987 to 1994. Zytel was used for grips, magazines, and furniture while slides, barrels, slide rails, and other high-pressure parts were manufactured using LaSalle Stressproof steel.
Products
Grendel P10 - introduced in 1988, the P10 is a .380 DAO with no levers with rudimentary sights and had a large trigger guard. It also had no detachable magazine and was loaded locking the slide back and feed ten rounds through the open chamber into the spring-loaded grip itself, usually with a stripper clip.
Grendel P12 - produced from 1991 until 1994, the P12 is a P10 with a 9-round detachable box magazine. It was Grendel's last .380.
Grendel P30 - a single-action, fluted barrel .22 WMR magnum blowback pistol that used a 30 round box magazine. The five inch barrel model gave an overall length of 8.5 inches.
Grendel R31 - another .22 WMR magnum carbine.