Savage dropped the Stevens name in 1991, but revived it in 1999 and still uses it today for a number of its low cost rifles and shotguns.

Fay and James Taylor in Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts,[3] in 1864 as J. Stevens & Co. Their earliest product was a tip-up action single shot pistol.

Page led the company to significant growth, such that by 1902 Stevens had 900 employees and was considered one of the top sporting firearms manufacturers in the world.

In 1901, Stevens entered into a partnership with J. Frank Duryea to produce the Stevens-Duryea automobile manufactured at a separate facility also in Chicopee Falls.

New England Westinghouse was created specifically to fulfill a contract to produce 1.8 million Mosin-Nagant rifles for Czar Nicholas II of Russia for use in World War I.

[10] In 1887, Stevens developed the .22 Long Rifle round,[11] which served as an introductory caliber for children for decades, as well as being very popular for plinking, varmint hunting, and target shooting.

They were priced lower than those of Ballard or Winchester, making the Stevens' falling block models competitive in the marketplace.

Under names like Favorite, Little Scout, Crack Shot, and Marksman, Stevens sold millions of reliable single-shots.

[5] Stevens, under the ownership of New England Westinghouse, produced over 770,000 Mosin-Nagant rifles under contract with the Russian government between 1916-1917, of which 225,260 were delivered.

The heavy barrel design added a great deal of weight which compared unfavorably with larger rifles such as the military's various .30 caliber offerings.

[5] Starting in 1872, Stevens began producing single-barreled shotguns based on their tip-up rifles and pistols.

[19] The Model 520, easily recognized by its distinctive double-hump receiver, first appeared in Stevens' 1909 Catalog #52 and remained in production until 1939.

Stevens provided a prototype Model 520 trench gun to the American military in 1918 for use in World War I but it was never produced in quantity.

[21] Joshua Stevens produced three lines of single-shot tip-up target pistols named after contemporary gunmen.

The deluxe set of pistols had ten-inch barrels chambered for .32 Colt, iridescent mother-of-pearl grips, and custom engraving with gold inlay by Louis Daniel Nimschke.