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About a year and a half ago, the company re-reorganized under the direction of MKS Marketing and seems now to be if not flourishing at least it is progressing in quality and market share.ĭouglas McClenahan, a young gun designer who had previously worked for Colt, High Standard, and Sturm, Ruger founded Charter Arms in 1964 to produce affordable high-quality, reliable handguns. Early production of this generation seems to have been spotty and reputation still lagged. All pieces made during this THIRD generation will be marked with the SHELTON address. In 2000, the company was again reorganized as CHARTER 2000 and relocated to SHELTON CONN. This is the SECOND generation and apparently the period which caused the most damage to the Charter name and reputation. All second generation pieces will be marked on the right side of the barrel with that name and address in two lines. This was the end of the FIRST GENERATION.Īround early 1992, the company was re-organized under new leadership and became known as Charter Arms Company - CHARCO, and was located in ANSONIA CONN. The very first Charter Arms Corporation production began in 1964 in BRIDGEPORT CONN - earliest pieces - mostly Undercover model will have either NO address on the right side of the barrel or will have BRIDGEPORT.Īround 1970, address was changed to STRATFORD CONN - all pieces made after mid 1970 will be marked with that address on the right side of the barrel and all will have CHARTER ARMS CORP. I think they are now out of business.(not sure) Here are a few quotes out of some articles I found. If you do a google search, you will find several articles from other sources. The older one my friend has is a nice little. The early ones are labled Bridgeport, Conn. I found mostly good reviews for the older ones, from 1964 to the early 70s, before the company got sold a couple of times. I just recently looked up some info for the same gun for my friend.