Weaponry has evolved through the millennia as one builder improves upon the previous one’s designs and armies steal each other’s technology in perpetual competition to gain the edge. That evolution accelerated dramatically during the tenure of Steyr’s greatest employee, perhaps the greatest firearms engineer and inventor of all time, Ferdinand Mannlicher.

A century and a half in business, a millennium in the weapons trade. The Austrian town of Steyr and its eponymous gunmaker advanced firearms technology from the medieval to the modern through a lineage no other can claim.

Our company, Steyr Arms, has a storied history that stretches back to 1864. The Austrian city of Steyr that inspired our brand’s name, has a much deeper history in weaponry.