---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001174947-25-000976"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RGR"
cik: "0000095029"
company_name: "STURM RUGER & CO INC"
filed_at: "2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-18T11:49:29.204453+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "medium"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Sturm, Ruger acquires Anderson Manufacturing assets; will integrate facility, discontinue brand

## Summary
- Asset purchase of Anderson Manufacturing, a firearms manufacturer based in Hebron, Kentucky, includes facility and machinery.
- Ruger will not continue the Anderson brand; will use capabilities to launch new products and expand existing lines.
- CEO Todd Seyfert says acquisition advances long-term strategy, expands capacity, and reinforces Ruger as industry leader.
- No financial terms of the asset purchase were disclosed in the press release.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001174947-25-000976
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RGR
- cik: 0000095029
- company_name: STURM RUGER & CO INC
- filed_at: 2025-07-01T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: medium
- sec_items: 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000976/0001174947-25-000976-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/95029/000117494725000976/form8k-34425_rgr.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001174947-25-000976.txt

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