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Our American Stories

Ruger Firearms: The Story of a Great American Company

Our American Stories

iHeartPodcasts

Documentary, Society & Culture

4.6817 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of Our American Stories, Ruger is the biggest gun manufacturer in the U.S., and it’s not by accident. Here to tell this story is Logan Metesh. Logan is a firearms historian and museum professional who runs High Caliber History LLC.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.5

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0:07.1

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0:08.4

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0:11.1

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0:13.9

And this season, I'm digging into the tech stories we weren't told.

0:17.4

Starting with Stacey Spikes, the black founder of movie pass who got pushed out of the company

0:21.6

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0:22.8

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0:27.3

And then boom, it's everywhere.

0:29.3

And that was that moment.

0:30.7

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0:44.9

Yeah. or wherever you get your podcast. And we continue here on our American stories.

0:48.5

Ruger is the biggest gun manufacturer in the country, and it's not by accident.

0:53.1

In the words of William Ruger, each firearm is built, quote,

0:56.0

to a standard so I would want one even if it was made by our competitors.

1:02.0

Here to tell this American story is Logan Medish.

1:06.0

Logan is a firearms historian and museum professional who runs High Calibur History LLC.

1:13.4

Here's Logan.

1:15.6

The timing really couldn't have been better for William Ruger when he and Alexander

1:20.3

Stern became business partners in January of 1949.

1:26.4

Ruger had been making hand tools for the previous few years, but unfortunately, business

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