---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-000947"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGR"
cik: "0000095029"
company_name: "STURM RUGER & CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-19T02:26:06.837936+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.15
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sturm Ruger expands board to 10, elects Bruce Pettet as director

## Summary
- Board size increased from 9 to 10 directors; Bruce Pettet elected effective June 19, 2025.
- Pettet is President & CEO of Leupold & Stevens; independent under NYSE standards.
- Bylaws amended to reflect new maximum board size of 10 directors.
- Pettet not yet assigned to any board committees; will receive standard non-management director compensation.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-000947
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGR
- cik: 0000095029
- company_name: STURM RUGER & CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-06-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.15
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.15
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000947/0001174947-25-000947-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000947/ea0246399-8k_sturm.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-000947
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-000947.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-000947.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Bruce Pettet was elected as Director at STURM RUGER & CO INC.
  - Action: elected
  - Role: Director
  source text: On June 19, 2025, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (the “Company”), pursuant to the Company’s Amended and Restated By-Laws (as defined below), expanded the size of the Board to ten (10) directors from nine (9) directors, and elected Bruce Pettet to fill the vacancy on the Board created through such increase in the size of the Board, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000947/0001174947-25-000947-index.htm
- Governance Changes
  STURM RUGER & CO INC: Amended and restated bylaws to increase maximum board size from nine to ten directors (effective 2025-06-19).
  - Change: bylaw amendment
  - Effective: 2025-06-19
  source text: On June 19, 2025, the Board 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. The Amended and Restated By-Laws modified the provisions of Article 3, Section 2 of the Company’s by-laws to increase the maximum size of the Board to ten (10) directors.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000947/0001174947-25-000947-index.htm

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