Īfter building a third factory in New Haven in 1937, Mossberg continued to produce simple, economical firearms for the civilian market. Savage, the son of the owner of Savage Arms Corp. 22 rimfire Mossberg rifles, a pump-action repeater designed by Arthur E. In 1922, the company introduced the first of a new line of. Thanks to the Brownie pistol, the Mossbergs' firearms business grew steadily, and in 1921 the company purchased a building on Greene Street in New Haven, Connecticut. Marketed largely to hunters and trappers for the humane killing of wounded or trapped animals, approximately 37,000 Brownie pistols were produced from 1920 to 1932. Renting a small loft on State Street in New Haven, the Mossbergs began work on a simple four-shot. Mossberg and his two sons, Iver and Harold, started a new firearms company of their own, O.F. In 1919, when Marlin-Rockwell went out of business (they primarily made machineguns, and World War I had just ended), the unemployed 53-year-old O.F. In 1914, Mossberg left Stevens, moving to New Haven, Connecticut, in order to work for Marlin-Rockwell. Working out of an old barn behind his house, Mossberg and his sons made about 500 of these four-shot pistols between 19. Stevens Arms & Tool Co., where he designed a small four-shot novelty pistol which he patented in his name. in nearby Hatfield, Massachusetts, which manufactured single- and double-barrel breechloading shotguns. When Mossberg left Iver Johnson, he went on to manage the small factory of the C.S.

While at Iver Johnson, Mossberg supervised the manufacture of revolvers and shotguns, while contributing some of his own patented designs, including a top strap latching mechanism for the Iver Johnson safety revolver. Mossberg went to work at the Iver Johnson Arms & Cycle Works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. Oscar Frederick Mossberg (1866–1937) was born on 1 September 1866, in Sweden, near the village of Svanskog in Värmland, and emigrated to the United States in 1886.

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