Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
Sears did not make firearms, they contracted out to other companies to mark them with the Sears name.
Sears stopped selling firearms in 1988. Sears never made firearms, they contracted other gun companies to make guns for them under the Sears brand name.
No. Several companies made guns for Sears under the JC Higgins name. They still exist but no longer make guns with the JC Higgins name.
Sears never made firearms. They "branded" firearms from firearms makers with their name as part of a contract.
no indication of such action, but possible.
Npe- and they never did. JC Higgins was a brand used by Sears for guns mde by companies such as Winchester, Marlin, Savage, High Standard, etc. The guns were marked with the JC Higgins brand instead of the maker's brand. Sears changed the JC Higgins brand to Ted Williams, and in the 1980s, stopped selling firearms.
Sears sold firearms for over 100 years. Most were made by other companies (Remington, Savage, Marlin, Mossberg, etc.) for Sears but marked with the Sears trade names of J C Higgins or Ted Williams.
There never really was a 'JC Higgins Firearms.' That was a brand name used by Sears on guns that were made for them by various manufacturers such as High Standard, Savage and Winchester.
Sears discontinued the sale of all firearms in 1980
Sears never made firearms. They contracted with various gun makers and had them "store branded" for their stores to sell.