Now that it’s 2019 and Ruger is officially 70, the company is ready to celebrate in a big way, with more firearms than ever before. Doug Koenig joined Team Ruger, and their new SR1911 bears his name. The new SR1911 from the custom shop was created with Koenig’s input and bears his name on the slide. They also shocked many by revealing that longtime Smith & Wesson shooting team captain Doug Koenig had signed on as the newest member of the Ruger team. Late in 2018, the company announced the Ruger Custom Shop, which began producing competition-grade versions of the SR1911 pistol and the 10/22 rifle.
(That design has been successful since day one company lore says that the reps returned from the 2008 SHOT Show with orders for 70,000 LCP pistols!) Ruger’s venerable 10/22 is now available in a special edition from their custom shop. The M77 bolt-action rifle celebrated its 50th anniversary, and the LCP semi-automatic pistol celebrated its 10th anniversary. In 2018, on the cusp of septuagenarian status, Ruger refused to show its age and gave us a taste of what was to come. In fact, it is the only American firearms company that is publicly traded on its own and not as a part of a parent company. retired in 2006), the company remains a force to be reckoned with in the American firearms market. Even though no one with the Ruger name has officially run the company in more than a decade (Jr.
His son, Bill Ruger, Jr., passed in 2018 after 42 years of employment with his father’s company.
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