Manufrance

Manufrance was the trade name of Manufacture Francaise d'Armes et Cycles de St.Etienne ("French Arms and Cycle Factory of St. Etienne"), a French mail order company which was situated in the manufacturing town of St. Etienne since 1888.

The first French mail order company, it mainly specialised in shotguns (Robust, Falcor, Ideal, Simplex)[citation needed] and bicycles (Hirondelle [fr]) since 1890.

[1] However, they covered other products, ranging from fishing rods to household items, such as wall clocks.

An unregistered Manufrance LaSalle 12-gauge shotgun, with a sawn-off barrel, was used by the perpetrator of the 2014 Sydney hostage crisis in Australia, who was unlicensed.

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