Sundance Industries

{{Infobox company

| name = Sundance Industries

| logo = File:SundanceIndLOGO.JPG

| logo_size = 150px

| type = Private

| fate = Closed

| predecessor =

| successor =

| foundation = {{start date and age|1989}}

| founder =

| defunct = {{end date and age|2002}}

| location_city = Valencia, California

| location_country = U.S.

| location =

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| area_served = U.S.

| key_people = Steven Jennings

| industry = firearms

| products = weapons

}}

Sundance Industries was a firearms manufacturer established in 1989 by Steven Jennings, the nephew of Raven Arms founder George Jennings.{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-09-23-mn-42030-story.html|title=Southland Firms Dominate Market for Small Handguns|last=Brazil|first=Jeff|date=September 23, 1994|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=16 January 2015}} Sundance produced a series of inexpensive pocket handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and marketed towards people with low income.{{cite web|url=http://www.vpc.org/studies/deaddavi.htm|title=Davis Industries|year=2000|publisher=Violence Policy Center|accessdate=14 January 2015}}

As one of the companies connected to Raven Arms, and a maker of Saturday night specials, Sundance was described by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives as one of the "Ring of Fire companies", a series of companies established around Los Angeles, California, all of which manufactured inexpensive handguns of similar design and all of which were connected to Raven Arms.{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/guns/ring/hazard.html|title=Hot Guns: Ring of Fire|work=Frontline|publisher=PBS|accessdate=16 January 2015}}

The majority of their production run involved modified versions of Raven Arms .25 ACP and Jennings Arms .22 LR pocket guns with a laser sight.{{cite web|url=https://www.vpc.org/studies/smalsun.htm|title=Sundance|publisher=Violence Policy Center|accessdate=16 January 2015}} The guns were constructed of injection-molded Zamak, a zinc alloy.

Sundance went out of business in 2002.{{cite book|last=Lee|first=Jerry|title=2014 Standard Catalog of Firearms|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6UwFAgAAQBAJ&q=sundance+industries+california&pg=PA1182|date=December 19, 2013|publisher=F+W Media, Inc.|isbn=9781440237164}}

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