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Arcadia Machine & Tool, commonly abbreviated to AMT, was a firearms manufacturer from
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. The company produced several weapons, primarily clones of existing firearms, but made from
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rather than the standard steel used for most firearms of the time. AMT was described by the
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(ATF) as one of the "Ring of Fire companies", which were known for large-scale manufacture of Saturday night specials. The company filed for bankruptcy after their products were affected by quality and reliability problems, and the assets and trademark were acquired by Irwindale Arms Incorporated (IAI). Later, in 1998, Galena Industries of
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, purchased the company and produced firearms in the style of AMT's until 2001 when Crusader Gun Company (later
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) of
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purchased it.


Products


Pistols

* Auto Mag * AMT Baby AutoMag *
AMT AutoMag II The AMT AutoMag II is a semiautomatic handgun chambered in .22 WMR, that was manufactured by Arcadia Machine and Tool from 1987 until 1999, and was manufactured by High Standard until their closure in 2018. Design There were a number of engineer ...
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AMT AutoMag III The AMT Automag III is a single action semi-automatic pistol made by Arcadia Machine and Tool (AMT). It was created by Harry Sanford, inventor of the original .44 AutoMag pistol. The Automag III was principally chambered for the .30 Carbine ca ...
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AMT AutoMag IV The AMT Automag IV is a large single action semi-automatic pistol made by Arcadia Machine and Tool (AMT). The weapon was created by Harry Sanford, inventor of the original .44 AutoMag pistol. This model fires the .45 Winchester Magnum round; how ...
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AMT AutoMag V The AMT Auto Mag V is a large single action semi-automatic pistol made by Arcadia Machine and Tool (AMT). The weapon was created by Harry Sanford, inventor of the original .44 Auto Mag pistol. Production quantity was planned to be 3000 units, nu ...
* AMT AutoMag 440 *
AMT Backup The AMT Backup is a small semi-automatic pistol. It was first manufactured by the Ordnance Manufacturing Corporation (OMC) of El Monte, CA. The first guns made in .380 ACP by OMC are known as the OMC Backup. OMC produced a short run of these pist ...
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AMT Hardballer The AMT Hardballer is a series of pistols that are part of the 1911 platform (based on the .45 ACP M1911) made by Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT) from 1977 to 2002. The Hardballer was the first entirely stainless steel 1911 pattern pistol. Other f ...
* AMT On Duty * AMT Lightning pistol *
AMT Skipper The AMT Skipper was a stainless steel copy of the .45 ACP Colt Combat Commander made by Arcadia Machine and Tool. Statistics SKIPPER *Chambering: .45 ACP., .40 S&W *Barrel Length: 4 inches. *Overall Length: 7.5 inches. *Weight: 0.9 kg ...


Rifles

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AMT Lightning 25/22 The AMT Lightning 25/22 was a .22 LR-caliber semi-automatic rifle manufactured by Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT). As is alluded to in the nomenclature, the Lightning 25/22 is functionally a clone of the Ruger 10/22 with the substitution of a larg ...
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AMT Magnum Hunter Amt is a type of administrative division governing a group of municipalities, today only in Germany, but formerly also common in other countries of Northern Europe. Its size and functions differ by country and the term is roughly equivalent to ...


See also

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Davis Industries Davis Industries was a firearms manufacturer established in 1982 by Jim Davis. Davis produced a series of inexpensive handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and marketed towards people with low income. The guns were constructed of ...
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Jimenez Arms JA Industries was an American firearms manufacturer based in Henderson, Nevada. The company's origins trace to 1978, with the formation of Jennings Firearms. This company eventually filed bankruptcy and subsequently reorganized as Bryco Arms. Br ...
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Lorcin Engineering Company Lorcin Engineering Company was a firearms manufacturer established in 1989 by Jim Waldorf. Lorcin produced a series of very inexpensive handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and marketed to people with low income. As such, their ...
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Phoenix Arms Phoenix Arms was a firearms manufacturer established in 1992. A predecessor company owned by George Jennings, Raven Arms, ceased operations in 1991, after which Jennings retired and sold his designs to Phoenix. Phoenix was founded and owned by Je ...
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Raven Arms Raven Arms was a firearms manufacturer established in 1970 by firearms designer George Jennings. The Gun Control Act of 1968 prohibiting the importation of inexpensive handguns prompted Jennings to design the MP-25, a .25 ACP, .25-caliber semi-a ...
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Sundance Industries Sundance Industries was a firearms manufacturer established in 1989 by Steven Jennings, the nephew of Raven Arms founder George Jennings. Sundance produced a series of inexpensive pocket handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and ...


References


External links


Automag Parts

A website about all of the AMT pistols
{{DEFAULTSORT:Arcadia Machine and Tool Defunct firearms manufacturers of the United States Irwindale, California Manufacturing companies established in 1977 1977 establishments in California Defunct manufacturing companies based in Greater Los Angeles