---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-000035"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGR"
cik: "0000095029"
company_name: "STURM RUGER & CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T23:41:09.929478+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sturm, Ruger names Todd Seyfert President & CEO; Chris Killoy to retire

## Summary
- Seyfert appointed President & CEO effective March 1, 2025; base salary $750k; target cash bonus 100% of base; equity awards 125% of base.
- Seyfert receives $345k cash for forfeited prior-year incentives; one-time award of 40,000 RSUs with time- and performance-vesting.
- Outgoing CEO Chris Killoy transitions to Special Advisor; to retire May 2025; remains on Ruger's Board.
- Seyfert previously CEO of FeraDyne Outdoors; held leadership roles at Vista Outdoors, Bushnell, and other outdoor brands.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-000035
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGR
- cik: 0000095029
- company_name: STURM RUGER & CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-01-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 5.02, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000035/0001174947-25-000035-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000035/form8k-33404_rgr.htm

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