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[[Image:Savage-SpringfieldModel67.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Savage/Springfield Model 67 - 12 gauge. This is the same firearm, built under contract by Savage, but branded 'Springfield' for 3rd party sales]] | [[Image:Savage-SpringfieldModel67.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Savage/Springfield Model 67 - 12 gauge. This is the same firearm, built under contract by Savage, but branded 'Springfield' for 3rd party sales]] | ||
[[Image:Tee0203.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Stevens 67 - | [[Image:Tee0203.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Stevens 67 - 12 gauge]] | ||
J. Stevens & Co. was a small firearms company founded by Joshua Stevens, W.B. Fay and James Taylor in 1864. They were based in Chicopee Falls, MA. The company's most notable achievement was purchasing, and marketing, one of John Browning's shotgun designs.( See: [[Stevens Model 520/620]]) | J. Stevens & Co. was a small firearms company founded by Joshua Stevens, W.B. Fay and James Taylor in 1864. They were based in Chicopee Falls, MA. The company's most notable achievement was purchasing, and marketing, one of John Browning's shotgun designs.( See: [[Stevens Model 520/620]]) | ||
Revision as of 02:10, 27 October 2011
J. Stevens & Co. was a small firearms company founded by Joshua Stevens, W.B. Fay and James Taylor in 1864. They were based in Chicopee Falls, MA. The company's most notable achievement was purchasing, and marketing, one of John Browning's shotgun designs.( See: Stevens Model 520/620)
In 1920, Stevens Arms was purchased by Savage, but continued to produce firearms under the Stevens brand (with Savage as the parent company). After the 1950s, Stevens offered the "budget grade" pump action Model 67, then manufactured by their parent company Savage, but sold in many markets under the Stevens name. The Model 67 pump action shotgun ceased production in 1989.
The Stevens 67 shotgun has been seen in the following Films, Video Games and Television shows used by the following Actors:
Film
- A Zion guard in Matrix Reloaded, The (2003)
- Hatcher's men in Rundown, The (2003)
- Eight Legged Freaks (2002)
- Prison guards in Boondock Saints, The (1999)
- Sgt. Reed and other Detroit police officers in RoboCop 3 (1993)
- Michael Douglas as NYPD Detective Nick Conklin in Black Rain (1989)
- Robert Blake as Perry Smith and Scott Wilson as Dick Hickock in In Cold Blood (1967)
Television
- Hit squad in Professionals (TV Series), The - Season 2, Episode 9: "Blind Run"