Jimenez Arms
JA Industries, formerly Jimenez Arms, is an American firearms manufacturer based in Henderson, Nevada.
The company was started in August 2004 using the molds and machinery from bankrupt Bryco Arms and made six models of firearm.
Under its Bryco name, the company was described by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms as one of the inexpensive firearm manufacturers known as the "Ring of Fire" companies.[1]
Jimenez Arms filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy in February 2020. Its assets were transferred to a new company, JA Industries, which resumed operations.
Jennings Firearms was founded in 1978 by Bruce Jennings, the son of Raven Arms founder George Jennings. After declaring bankruptcy, the company was renamed Bryco Arms,[2] but the Jennings name was retained for many years even while Bryco Arms used its own brand name for firearms.
Bryco Arms was the successor company to Jennings Firearms, a U.S. firearm manufacturing company, based at various times in Carson City, Nevada, Irvine, California, and Costa Mesa, California. The company's most famous product, along with the Jennings J-22, was the Bryco Arms Model 38 semi-automatic pistol, available in both 32 ACP and 380 ACP calibers (also known as the P-38). As with Jennings, the company was owned by Bruce Jennings.
