Since then, SAKO leaders have made several business moves, including the acquisition of Tikka Firearms in 1983 and a merger with the Beretta Holding Group (SAKO’s present-day parent company) in 2000. The company continued manufacturing submachine gun cartridges for the Finnish Defense Forces through World War II. The newest Sako 85 series also requires their own designs.
In between wars, the company gained financial independence from the Finnish Civil Guard, relocated its headquarters to Riihimäki, assumed the name SAKO, and began exporting pistol cartridges to Sweden. The older L46 and L59 actions will not fit our stock designs and we do not offer stocks for them. 222 Rem Blue 22' BEAUTIFUL BOLT ACTION RIFLE Click here to view our other Live Auctions If you have missed out on this auction or are. Their first shop was a converted Helsinki brewery, where gunsmiths refurbished captured Russian weapons for use in the Finnish Army. 223 Rem Blue 24' BEAUTIFUL BOLT ACTION RIFLE Excellent Example Sako Riihimaki Deluxe L46. SAKO first opened its doors in 1919, shortly after Finland declared its independence from Russia, under the name Civil Guard Supreme Staff Gun Works. The company’s name hails from a voluntary Finnish militia, called the “Civil Guard” or “White Guard”, that successfully crushed socialist opposition during the Finnish Civil War of 1918.
SAKO, Ltd., or Suojeluskuntain Ase- ja Konepaja Oy ("Civil Guard Gun and Machining Works”), is a Finnish firearms company that can trace its roots all the way back to post-WWI Europe.
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