Henry Repeating Arms

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Henry Repeating Arms Company
Type	Private
Founded	1997
Headquarters	Brooklyn, New York, USA
Industry	Firearms
Products	Firearms, weapons
Website	www.henryrepeating.com

Henry Repeating Arms is a Brooklyn, New York based firearms company. The company takes its name from Benjamin Tyler Henry's Henry rifle. The company makes several rimfire and centerfire rifles and are best known for their lever-action rifles, and octagonal barrel crossections on many of the guns. The Henry "Big Boy" is a centerfire rifle that is available in several chamberings. The Henry "Golden Boy" rifle is a .22 rimfire that is styled after the Winchester Model 66 "Yellow Boy", including the brass receiver. They are also known for producing high quality versions of the Armalite AR-7 survival rifle, used in the James Bond film From Russia With Love as an assassin's weapon; they currently own the license for that weapon, now know as the U.S. Survival .22 LR.

B. Tyler Henry conceived the first practical lever action repeating rifle, patented in 1860. The Henry gave a single man the firepower of a dozen marksmen armed with muzzle-loading muskets. Used successfully by the Union in the Civil War, one Confederate officer remarked "It's a rifle that you could load on Sunday and shoot all week long."

The company's slogan is "Made in America and Priced Right," a reference to their New York factory and lower prices than other manufacturers.

Their advertising notwithstanding, Henry Repeating Arms Company has no connection to B. Tyler Henry or New Haven Arms, the company that produced the Model 1860 Henry rifle. New Haven Arms was owned by Oliver Winchester, and in 1866 the company name was changed to Winchester Repeating Arms.