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Industry | firearms |
Founded | 1978 | as Jennings Firearms
Founder | Bruce bruce |
Headquarters | Carson City, Nevada, Irvine, California and Costa Mesa, California, U.S. |
Area served
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U.S. |
Key people
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Paul Jimenez |
Products | handguns |
Jimenez Arms (J.A.) is an American firearms manufacturer based in Henderson, Nevada. The company was started in August 2004 using the molds and machinery from bankrupt Bryco Arms and makes six models of firearm.
Under its Bryco name, the company was described by the U.S. BATF as one of the "Ring of Fire" companies.
All guns manufactured by Jimenez are constructed of injection-molded Zamak, a zinc alloy.
Jennings Firearms was founded in 1978 by Bruce Jennings, the son of Raven Arms founder George Jennings. After declaring bankruptcy, the company was renamed Bryco Arms, but the Jennings name was retained for many years even while Bryco Arms used its own brand name for firearms.
Bryco Arms was the successor company to Jennings Firearms, an American firearm manufacturing company, based at various times in Carson City, Nevada, Irvine, California, and Costa Mesa, California. The company's most famous product, along with the Jennings J-22, was the Bryco Arms Model 38 semi-automatic pistol, available in both 32 ACP and 380 ACP calibers (also known as the P-38). As with Jennings, the company was owned by Bruce Jennings.
Bryco Arms was one of several manufacturers of so-called Saturday night special firearms that operated in and around Los Angeles, California, all of which were descendants in some way from George Jennings' Raven Arms. It produced firearms variously branded as Jennings Firearms at its Irvine, California facility, as well as under the brand name of Bryco Arms at its former Carson City, Nevada facility, and at its Costa Mesa, California facility.