Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. Rick Stoeckel (left), brand manager for ATK’s Civil Ammunition, accepts the Aummnition Manufacturer of the Year award from Brown. Andrew York (right), Leupold V.P. of sales and marketing, accepts the Accessory Manufacturer of the Year award from Brown. factory is paramount. You can’t be a oneyear wonder in this competitive market and survive. You’ve got to continually prove yourself and get it right every single year. We know our position in this industry — we’re a blue-collar worker company, which means that we need to provide our customers both quality and value. We will continue manufacturing superior products that way,” Coburn said. Sturm, Ruger & Co. was honored with the Firearms Manufacturer of the Year award. Accepting the award was Ruger President Steve Sanetti. “Committed as we are to the two-tiered distribution system, we very much appreciate how the NASGW continuously provides us with better ways to effectively interface with our wholesale partners — both formally and informally — through its own ongoing communications efforts,” Sanetti said. “We also solicit and value the opinions from the distributor network, meet with them frequently, and get their suggestions for products, distribution and special makeups.” Ruger’s recent unprecedented and successful product launch of its SR9 strikerfired pistol may have set in motion a wave of the future. Rather than the typical WWW.SHOOTINGINDUSTRY.COM CIRCLE NO. 201 ON INQUIRY CARD FEBRUARY 2008 39