Most folks knows Apple computers started in a California garage. Less well known: the modern small arms industry was born the same way. “America’s rifle,” the AR-15, owes it genesis to not one but two post-War California aircraft company employees and backyard gunmakers: Eugene Stoner, Design Engineer for Whittaker, and George Sullivan, Chief Patent Counsel for Lockheed. When Sullivan convinced the gun enthusiast running Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corporation to set-up ArmaLite, Stoner and his patents formed the basis of the new venture. The California-dreamin’ start-up applied advanced aeronautic plastics and alloy technology to the business of making guns.
MSGT Christopher J. Raguso, RIP
TTAG writer Capt. John Raguso sends this sad news about his son: On March 15, 2018, MSGT Christopher J. Raguso of the USAF, who was also a Lieutenant with FDNY and Commack FD, was killed in action in the western desert of Iraq during a mission serving his county in Operation Inherent Resolve, the war … Read more
