Century Arms is a firearms importer and manufacturer ironically founded by a typewriter repairman in the 1960s. The repairman, William Sucher, was compensated for a repair with a Lee-Enfield rifle he didn’t need and posted a newspaper ad to sell it. After receiving more queries about the rifle than his repair services, Sucher changed his career path from fixing typewriters to finding surplus firearms. He and his brother-in-law secured contacts for surplus firearms in foreign militaries, and by the 1970s, Century Firearms was the largest importer of firearms in Canada and the United States. Once legally in the U.S., Century Arms strips away the foreign parts and adds American-made mettle, legally classifying them as domestic weapons, and allowing you to enjoy them.