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The budget gunmaker that armed more U.S. soldiers than Colt ever did. Harrington & Richardson built its reputation on affordable firearms, but during America's major twentieth-century military mobilizations, H&R became an important defense contractor. From wartime production to the M1 Garand and M14 era, this often-overlooked Massachusetts manufacturer played a much larger role in U.S. military history than its modest reputation suggests.

This documentary explores the history of Harrington & Richardson, better known as H&R, from its beginnings in Worcester, Massachusetts, to its emergence as a major American firearms manufacturer.
Discover how mass-production methods and government contracts pushed H&R beyond the inexpensive civilian firearms that originally made its name.
Follow the company's military production story, including its manufacture of hundreds of thousands of M1 Garand rifles and its later role as one of the contractors producing the M14 service rifle.
Learn how a company associated with affordable firearms became part of America's enormous Cold War manufacturing machine—and why the original H&R eventually disappeared even though its name survived.

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