Agrupación Social Trabajadores Armeros, S.A.L. (ASTAR), was a Spanish firearms company.
STAR Firearms
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' remaining company assets were merged with
Astra Firearms. The new company began making weapons under the name ASTAR.
Another semi-merger, an employee driven one, occurred with IPAR Guns
[http://www.iparguns.com/ing/index.htm] in
Eibar, a company which produces spare parts for some STAR and ASTRA guns and also services them. ASTAR's products have not been offered for sale in the
United States
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See also
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Astra-Unceta y Cia SA
Astra Unceta y Cía was a Spanish weapons manufacturer founded on July 17, 1908, under the name Esperanza y Unceta by Juan Esperanza and Pedro Unceta.
Initially based in Eibar, the centre of the Basque arms industry, the company moved in 1913 t ...
, another former Spanish handgun manufacturer
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CETME
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Llama
References
External links
Star-Firearms.com, an information website9 mm Largo website
Defunct manufacturing companies of Spain
Defunct firearms manufacturers
Firearm manufacturers of Spain
Spanish companies established in 1997
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