Four models are currently available based on chambering. And all Hi-Point guns come with a lifetime warranty. Savings, achieved by these design techniques, allow such features as three-dot, fully adjustable sights and last-round hold-opens. Since their introduction, finishes have been improved through powder-coating and baked-on compounds. Barrels are cut and button-rifled individually. Barrels are made of seamless 4140 or 4130 steel tubing made to Deeb’s specifications and ordered 25,000 to 100,000 ft. Economy is achieved by casting the slides and bolts and injection-molding the polymer parts, thus avoiding expensive machining. The frames were first made of aluminum, but are currently made of high-strength polymers.

45 ACP-and all Hi-Point guns are +P rated. Safety and reliability are achieved by making the slides of the handguns and bolts of the carbines from a heavy, tough zinc-aluminum alloy to give them enough mass to handle the recoil of cartridges from 9 mm Luger to. All Hi-Point guns are semi-automatic and use the simple blowback method of operation. In a field saturated with gunmakers, economy was Deeb’s basis for everything. In the late 1980s Deeb met a man in the gun business who employed some of Deeb’s ideas. After returning, he went into business repairing and rebuilding television sets in Lima, Ohio, and later in Mansfield. As an honor student, getting my GED was nothing.”ĭeeb served in the military from 1972 to 1976, installing and trouble-shooting electronic equipment all over Southeast Asia. The book was of little practical value-a means to an end. I’m a quick study and passed their trouble-shooting test. To get a better job at Memcor I bought an electronics textbook. “As a teenager, I wanted independence and a car. “I lived in a working-class neighborhood,” he said. My first gun was the Model C-9.”ĭeeb was born in Mishawaka, near South Bend, in Indiana. I set up my business in 1993 in the current location in Mansfield, Ohio. I began to think of improvements and finally developed a prototype pistol. That’s why I put a lifetime warranty on mine. “Ruger started out that way, making lower-priced guns that were a good product that won’t wear out. I make ‘blue-collar’ guns,” said Deeb, proudly. They shot well-and I could afford the lower-end ones. A Ruger Bearcat was one of my first handguns.

“I’ve had an interest in firearms since … forever. Those qualities are behind the firearms designed and built for the last two decades by Tom Deeb in the Beemiller manufacturing plant in Mansfield, Ohio. Hi-Point guns have gained popularity for their simplicity and reliability.

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