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.
[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.
[4] The company was bought by the Tuason family in 1941 and began making firearms through the present corporation in 1952, being renamed Squires Bingham Manufacturing, Inc. in the same year.
Armscor is an ISO 9001 certified compliant company which manufactures weapons using CNC (Computer Numerical Control) equipment.
[7] In December 2013, Armscor reported interest in the 4th Brunei Darussalam Defense Exhibition (BRIDEX) to provide arms and ammo for the Bruneian police and military.
[11][12][13] It derived its name from the nearby US Army Rock Island Arsenal and sold military surplus from the base but the two were not formally associated.