Contents.History Para-Ordnance was founded in Canada in 1985 by two childhood friends, Ted Szabo and Thanos Polyzos. Szabo was born in Hungary and his family fled the country when the Soviets invaded during the Hungarian Revolution in 1956. Polyzos was born in Greece and later emigrated to Canada.
On March 28, 2007, Ted Szabo died at the age of 60. The company's first product was a plastic, the Model 85 'Dye Marking Tactical Machine Pistol', designed for police and military training purposes.Para-Ordnance Mfg Inc. Had a factory in, Canada. When last reported, the company was estimated to have an annual revenue of over 9 million dollars and employ a staff of 60. In January 2009, it was announced that the U.S.
Headquarters for Para-Ordnance's U.S. Subsidiary ( Para USA) would be set up in. Eventually, Para Ordnance moved to North Carolina and became a totally U.S.
Company, Para USA.In January 2012, Para USA was acquired to become a part of the, a consortium of firearms manufacturers owned by, a New York private equity investment firm. Remington is Para USA's immediate corporate parent.Since 2007, had been part of the (ROC NYSE), which is owned by Cerberus Capital Management. Freedom Group had previously purchased and in 2007. Cerberus combined DPMS and other firearm companies with, and Cobb Manufacturing to form the.In 2014, the six subsidiary companies that would relocate and consolidate into 's new state-of-the-art non-union production facility in were: Advanced Armament Corp, Lawrenceville, Georgia; Montana Rifleman, Kalispell, Montana;, Kennesaw, Georgia; LAR Manufacturing, West Jordan, Utah;, St. Cloud, Minnesota; and Para USA (Para-Ordnance), Pineville, North Carolina. Remington stated that it would consolidate its production from those six locations into Huntsville in order to increase efficiency, and reduce production and labor costs.In February 2015, Remington Outdoor Company announced that the 'integration' of Para USA into Remington would occur with the move of Para USA to Remington's Huntville, Alabama facility in March 2015.
This also included the cessation of the Para name as a separate brand in the Freedom Group. Products Para offers a wide range of products for the law enforcement, and markets.Para-Ordnance was the originator of a high capacity magazine -style. Para-Ordnance was also the manufacturer of the first double-action-only 1911-style pistol. The company has created a true double-stack 1911 pistol, in addition to single- and double-stack pistols in, and calibers.
Para pistols have found a variety of uses, including competition, law enforcement, and general shooting. The introduction of the LDA (Light Double Action) allowed law enforcement agencies to use 1911-style pistols while still addressing the perceived liability issues of a single-action pistol.In 2009, Para-Ordnance announced the TTR 'Tactical Target Rifle', which featured an over-the-barrel delayed gas blowback system, dubbed DIGS, which lessens recoil when compared with a traditional gas system. The TTR also relocated the recoil spring assembly over the barrel and under the handguard, allowing it to have a true folding stock. Production ceased in 2011 when Para USA exited the rifle market. Gallery.
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. Professional Ordnance Carbon 15 (Value??).If this is your first visit, be sure tocheck out the by clicking thelink above. You may have tobefore you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.Welcome to the Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association Forum, we hope you like what you find here and we strongly encourage you to with us, especially if you are from Pennsylvania.
Once registered you will have access to participate in our community. Thanks for visiting and we hope you become a regular! I bought a NIB Professional Ordnance Carbon 15 about 10 years ago. I shot it a handful of times when I first had it, and never had a issue. Well it sat in my safe for the last 7 years, and I took it out to shoot it, and it seems to have developed a issue with jamming.
It seemed fine the first 20 rounds, and then it had a problem feeding. I cleaned it up and it tried it again today, but it started acting up again after 20 rounds. I think I just want to sell this gun, because I never use it. What is a fair selling price for this? I have the original box and manual.-Mark. I sold mine for about 650 bucks right after the 94 ban expired but i doubt you could get that much for one these days because there's so many more choices for AR15 pistols. My proord carbon 15 jammed a few times per mag if i used the oralite mag the pistol came with.
When i tried to use some of my aluminum mags the c15 wouldn't feed worth crap and became a jammomatic. As i recall there were a lot of issues with the carbon 15 rifles and pistols and proord either didn't have the know how or resources to correct the problems so they went out of buisiness and sold the design to bushmaster. It took BM a while to wrok out the bugs but i think they finally resolved all the issues and now if you buy a BM C15 you'll likely have a reliable ar15 style pistol. I'd call BM and see if they'll work on your pistol or you can check gunbroker, auctionarms or gunsamerica and see what others are asking for proord guns.