Thompson/Center Arms Co. sprang to life in 1967 when Warren Center’s design for a switch-barrel handgun met with the manufacturing capabilities of K.W. Thompson Tool. The merger produced a new ...

Thompson/Center Arms’ reputation for ... the company was established on a break-action, single-shot pistol with barrel interchangeability—the Contender. Since 1967, when the Contender made ...

Thompson/Center is not one of those companies. In an era when repeaters reigned supreme, T/C gambled on break-action single shots that allowed the user to easily swap barrels, and they won big. The ...