#Mac 10 9mm side cock upper serial#
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#Mac 10 9mm side cock upper mac#

#Mac 10 9mm side cock upper mac#

At this point Werbell leaves MAC and takes his half of the guns with him, starting a new company, Defense Services, Inc. Each faction receives half of the 14,000 unsold silenced Ingram submachine guns in the inventory. (Patent #3,651,736) MAC fails to meet sales projections. March 28th, 1972 - MAC 10 and MAC 11 designs are patented. Marketing focus shifts from the military to law enforcement. M-10 and M-11 become loosely known as “MAC-10” and “MAC-11” respectively. Mitch WerBell and Gordon Ingram are forced out, which is why the Marietta guns don’t have Ingram’s name on them. (This subsidiary only lasted about three weeks) Military Armament Corporation (M.A.C.) takes control, and moves production to Marietta. is pretty much dead in the water, now that the huge orders never materialize. 45, which causes the deal to fall through.ġ970 – Environmental Industries, Inc. However, Jack Woods had retired, and the new regime isn’t on board with the idea, so the Army decides to stay with the. is created to handle the anticipated production of the silenced Ingram, under the control of Werbell and his oldest son Mitch IV. Bintliff, and Stewart Mott (largest individual contributor to Senator McGovern’s presidential campaign) A subsidiary of Quantum called Environmental Industries, Inc. Quantum is made up of several investors including Rosser Scott Reeves III, Bennett B. teams up with Quantum Corp., who now provides financial backing and acquires all patent and production rights to the Ingram. Werbell links up with Colonel Woods to seal the deal. This meant millions and millions of dollars in sales to whoever got the contract. Woods, chief of the weapons division, RD&E Directorate, US Army Command suggests that the Pentagon might replace the venerable. Soon the Ingram perks the interest of the Army. J– application #832,083 for a patent is submitted for the Ingram submachine gun design.

Small orders come from Israel, Thailand, Uganda, Guatemala, and the Philippines, but the real goal is to secure big time US Government contracts. with an office on Peachtree Street in Atlanta.

Production of the weapon system begins at the Werbell estate at Powder Springs, Ga. Ingram moves his operations from California to Marietta, Georgia. Atchisson, John Foote and Jim Leatherwood also join the group. The cobray, a mythical cross between a Cobra and a Moray eel, becomes the company logo. (Sionics was an acronym for Studies in Organized Negation of Insurgency and Counter Subversion.) Soon the two form a business alliance with the WerBell suppressors being mounted on the Ingram pistols as a complete weapons system that is both compact and quiet. 380 ACP while Mitch Werbell is in Vietnam demonstrating gun #3 and suppressor combo.ġ967 - Ingram joins forces with Mitchell Livingston WerBell III of Sionics Corp.

Later in Georgia, Ingram creates an even more compact version of the gun, the M-11, chambered for. This ends up becoming the design used in future production. Leatherwood incorporates the selector switch into the fire control group, making the weapon select fire.

#Mac 10 9mm side cock upper serial#

They are full auto only serial #1 uses a Sten mag, serial #2 and #3 are chambered for 9mm, and serial #4 is chambered for. The first prototypes are produced at Juan Erquiaga’s Firearms production facility in Los Angeles, Ca. Jim Leatherwood helps in developing the trigger mechanism. The end of his efforts is the Model 10 or M-10.

#Mac 10 9mm side cock upper free#

If there are any discrepancies (I'm sure there is), I apologize, and please feel free to comment.ġ964 – Gordon Ingram sets out to rethink the basic submachine gun design. Please note.the following is some reference material that I put together in order to come up with a 'timeline' of some sorts. This information almost leads me to believe that Wayne Daniels was involved with the Macs both before and after James Leatherwood? The whole timeline can be a bit confusing sometimes. The timeline is hard to remember so I did a quick search here and found the information below from this previous thread: Story of my life getting things backwards. These were completed as 9mm guns and use the same Zytel mags as the M11/9. Actually Wayne Daniels acquired MAC from James Leatherwood when he went broke and finished those guns using a combination of parts.