SAKO
Sign in to saveSako Limited (natively '''''') is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme in southern Finland. It also has owned the Tikka brand of bolt-action rifles since 1983, and is now owned by the Italian firearm holding company Beretta Holding. The name Sako comes from the company's former name ().
Key facts
- Company.name
- Sako Limited
- Company.logo
- SAKO Limited logo.svg
- Company.native_name
- Sako Oy
- Company.native_name_lang
- fi
- Company.type
- Osakeyhtiö
- Company.location
- Riihimäki, Finland
- Company.industry
- Arms
- Company.products
- Firearms
- Company.parent
- Beretta Holding
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- History
- Post–World War II production
- Current production
- ''Sako'' brand
- ''Tikka'' brand
- Sako model history (Europe)
- Models
- References
- External links
Sako Limited (natively '''''') is a Finnish firearm and ammunition manufacturer located in Riihimäki, Kanta-Häme in southern Finland. It also has owned the Tikka brand of bolt-action rifles since 1983, and is now owned by the Italian firearm holding company Beretta Holding. The name Sako comes from the company's former name ().
==History== In 1919, two years after Finland declared independence from the Russian Empire, the Suojeluskuntain Yliesikunnan Asepaja (Civil Guard Supreme Staff Gun Works) opened in a former Helsinki brewery to repair private arms and recondition Russian military rifles for Finnish service. The rifle repair shop became financially independent of the civil guard in 1921. The Suojeluskuntain Yliesikunnan Asepaja moved from Helsinki to an ammunition factory in Riihimäki on 1 June 1927, and reorganized as SAKO in the 1930s. Sako started exporting pistol cartridges to Sweden in the 1930s and continued manufacturing submachine gun cartridges through World War II.