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Bryant Ridge's AnalysisThe year 1977 was pivotal to Americana, as Atari was released, Elvis died, and Browning first imported a neat new double-action pistol from Europe. In a move to comply with Geneva's tough gun export laws, the Swiss gunmaker SIG partnered with J.P. Sauer & Sohn of Eckernförde, West Germany, to produce guns without having to cut through layers of Swiss red tape. Thus, Sig-Sauer was born in 1976. The new organization's first gun would be the P220. A modernized answer to S …

Bryant Ridge's AnalysisL. W. Seecamp Co. was introduced as a pistol smithing company in 1973 by Ludwig (Louis) Wilhelm Seecamp, who trained as a gunsmith in pre-World War II Germany. Seecamp immigrated to the US in 1959 and was also a gun designer for the shotgun maker O.F. Mossberg. He specialized in double-action conversions for the 1911 Colt .45. In 1978, Seecamp specialized in the miniaturization of pistols. The Seecamp patented spring system is currently used in almost every locked breech m …