Zakłady Mechaniczne Tarnów is a Polish defense manufacturing company. Based in the city of Tarnów, the company produces handguns, assault rifles, sniper rifles and anti-air guns. It is part of the Bumar-Labedy corporation, itself a division of the state-controlled Polish Armaments Group.
History
Initially founded during World War I in 1917 as a local train repair workshop, in the interwar period the company was part of the Polish State Railways.[1] After the company's equipment was confiscated, dismantled and sent to Germany during World War II, the factory was rebuilt as a train repair workshop, but in 1951 it was turned into a defence contractor producing guns, firearms and machine tools.[2]
Warsaw Pact years
From 1951 the company license-built