Formerly | Squires Bingham Manufacturing, Inc. |
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Company type | Private |
Industry | Arms industry |
Founded | 1905 |
Founder | Ray Squires William Bingham |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Martin Tuason (President) |
Products | Firearms, ammunition |
Subsidiaries | Armscor International, Inc. |
Website | armscor |
Armscor Global Defense, Inc. is a firearms manufacturing company based in the Philippines. It is known for its inexpensive 1911-pattern pistols, revolvers, shotguns, sporting rifles, firearms parts and ammunition. Armscor, whose manufacturing facility is located in Marikina, produces about 200,000 firearms and some 420 million rounds of ammunition a year, where 80 percent of this is exported and sold to over 60 countries. The company was known as the Arms Corporation of the Philippines (Armscor) until 2017.[1]
The company has been headquartered in Marikina, Philippines since 1958[2] and represented in the United States by its subsidiary Armscor International, Inc., located in Pahrump, Nevada with facilities in Stevensville, Montana.[3]