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Join us as we discuss Hopkins and Allen, a lost but not forgotten gun manufacturer from New England. Hopkins & Allen Arms Company was an American firearms manufacturing company based in Norwich, Connecticut.

It was founded in 1868 by Charles W. Allen, Charles A. Converse, Horace Briggs, Samuel S. Hopkins and Charles W. Hopkins. The Hopkins brothers ran the company's day-to-day operations until it went bankrupt in 1916 and was subsequently bought by Marlin-Rockwell. What a ride ...