page_title: Sturm, Ruger & Co.
section_title: Autoloading rifles
hierarchical_section_title: Sturm, Ruger & Co. / Products / Rifles / Autoloading rifles
caption_attribution_description: Ruger 10/22 "Stainless" with a Butler Creek Folding Stock
context_page_description: Sturm, Ruger & Co., Inc., better known by the shortened name Ruger, is an American firearm manufacturing company based in Southport, Connecticut with production facilities also in Newport, New Hampshire; Mayodan, North Carolina and Prescott, Arizona. The company was founded in 1949 by Alexander McCormick Sturm and William B. Ruger and has been publicly traded since 1969.
  Ruger produces bolt-action, semi-automatic, and single-shot rifles, shotguns, semi-automatic pistols, and single- and double-action revolvers. According to the ATF statistics for 2015, Ruger is currently America's largest firearm manufacturer, as well as the second largest pistol and revolver manufacturer and rifle manufacturer in the United States.
context_section_description: Model 44 (discontinued)
  10/22
  10/17 (discontinued)
  SR-22
  Mini-14
  Mini Thirty
  XGI (not produced: development halted)
  Police Carbine
  Deerfield Carbine (discontinued)
  AR-556
  SR-556 (discontinued)
  SR-762 (discontinued)
caption: Ruger 10/22 "Stainless" With an aftermarket Butler Creek Folding Stock and a TRUGLO Red Dot Sight
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