---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-000717"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGR"
cik: "0000095029"
company_name: "STURM RUGER & CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-22T02:50:53.865162+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.4
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sturm, Ruger amends by-laws to allow shareholder action by written consent with less than unanimous vote.

## Summary
- Board adopted Amended and Restated By-Laws effective May 5, 2025.
- Previously required unanimous written consent; now requires minimum voting threshold as if at a meeting.
- Change lowers the threshold for shareholder action without a meeting.
- No other material changes reported.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-000717
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGR
- cik: 0000095029
- company_name: STURM RUGER & CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.4
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.4
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000717/0001174947-25-000717-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000717/form8k-34225_rgr.htm

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## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  STURM RUGER & CO INC: Amended and restated bylaws to allow shareholders to act by written consent with less than unanimous consent, changing Article 2, Section 13 from unanimous to a majority-vote threshold (effective 2025-05-05).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-05-05
  source text: Item 5.03 Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year. On May 5, 2025, the Board of Directors of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (the “Company”) amended and restated the Company’s by-laws (as so amended and restated, the “Amended and Restated By-Laws”), effective as of the same date.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000717/0001174947-25-000717-index.htm

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