Arcadia Machine & Tool

{{Short description|Former American firearms company}}

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| name = Arcadia Machine & Tool (AMT)

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| fate = Acquired by Irwindale Arms Incorporated

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| successor = {{Unbulleted list|Irwindale Arms Incorporated|Galena Industries|High Standard Manufacturing Company}}

| foundation = {{start date and age|1977}}

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| location_city = Irwindale, California

| location_country = United States

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| industry = Firearms

| products = Pistols

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Arcadia Machine & Tool, commonly abbreviated to AMT, was a firearms manufacturer from Irwindale, California. The company produced several weapons, primarily clones of existing firearms, but made from stainless steel rather than the standard steel used for most firearms of the time.{{cite book|last=Shideler|first=Dan|title=Gun Digest 2011|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=F6qwoLzjlI0C&pg=PA114|accessdate=25 May 2013|year=2010|publisher=Krause Publications|location=Iola, Wisconsin|isbn=978-1-4402-1561-2|page=114}}{{Dead link|date=September 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

AMT was described by the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) as one of the "Ring of Fire companies",{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/ring/companies.html|title=Hot Guns: Ring of Fire|work=Frontline|publisher=PBS|accessdate=13 January 2015}} which were known for large-scale manufacture of Saturday night specials. The company filed for bankruptcy after their products were affected by quality and reliability problems, and the assets and trademark were acquired by Irwindale Arms Incorporated (IAI). Later, in 1998, Galena Industries of Sturgis, South Dakota, purchased the company and produced firearms in the style of AMT's until 2001 when Crusader Gun Company (later High Standard Manufacturing Company) of Houston, Texas purchased it.{{cite book|author1=Dan Shideler|author2=Jerry Lee|title=2012 Standard Catalog of Firearms: The Collector's Price & Reference Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gZDamMrZHs0C&pg=PA50|accessdate=25 May 2013|date=2012|publisher=Krause Publications|location=Iola Wisconsin|isbn=978-1-4402-1688-6|pages=50–51, 472}}