Gem-Tech.com is a manufacturer of firearm silencers in Boise, Idaho
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Gemtech began operations in 1993 through the merger of Automatic Weapons Company (Boise, ID), JR Customs Company (Selah, WA), and GSL Technology, Inc. (Jackson, MI). The focus of the company is to expand upon and produce the firearm sound suppressor lines developed by the antecedent companies.
Automatic Weapons Company, a division of Antares Technologies, Inc., was founded in 1976 in Albuquerque, NM by Philip Dater MD, as a designer and producer of firearms sound suppressors. By 1983, the company had grown beyond the founder's ability to produce product. At that time, designs and manufacturing were licensed to what became AWC Systems Technology. Automatic Weapons Company continued performing research and development in sound suppressor design.
In 1991, Dr. Dater relocated the company to Boise, ID and retired from the practice of medicine to devote full energy to the production of innovative, high efficiency, user friendly sound suppressors for both the civilian and law enforcement community. Automatic Weapons Company and AWC Systems Technology are separate and unrelated entities. JR Customs Company was founded in 1989 by Jim Ryan and Mark Weiss in Selah, WA. Ryan and Weiss have subsequently left Gemtech to concentrate on custom rifles.
