1979 defunct 2010 buyout by kahr arms headquarters pike county pennsylvania united states products firearms parent kahr arms website magnumresearch.com magnum research headquarters in fridley ; it is unmarked . magnum research inc. mri is an american privately held corporation based in fridley minnesota which manufactures and distributes firearms . the majority owners jim skildum president and ceo and john risdall chairman coo have been with the company since its founding in 1979 . in june 2010 kahr arms an american based producer of compact pistols announced its purchase of the minnesota based firearms manufacturer . 1 contents 1 products 1.1 current models 1.2 discontinued models 2 references 3 external links products edit mri was responsible for the design and development of the desert eagle pistol . 2 for some time the pistols were also manufactured by israel military industries until 1995 when mri shifted the manufacturing contract and license to saco defense in saco maine . in 2000 mri shifted manufacturing back to imi which later reorganized under the name israel weapon industries . since 2009 the desert eagle pistol has been exclusively produced in the usa only at mri s pillager minnesota facility . both saco and imi iwi were strictly just manufacturing contractors all of the intellectual property including patents copyrights and trademarks of the desert eagle since its creation have been the property of magnum research incorporated . 3 mri offers custom gunsmithing services and has a line of guns that are coated with titanium nitride in artful patterns and designs . the newest tin coated gun comes in a tiger stripe pattern which was developed by coating services group . coating services group continues to provide titanium nitride services for magnum research and others . magnum research imported the imi iwi jericho 941 series of pistols under the baby eagle name until the end of 2008 and resumed importation of this model in 2011 under the name baby eagle ii . currently the baby eagle name is used on a new series of striker fired polymer framed pistols . for a time they also imported the barak sp 21 pistol but it is no longer offered . other products include the bfr series of single action magnum revolvers the mountain eagle rifle magnum lite rifle and micro desert eagle . 3 4 5 6 current models edit magnum research desert eagle 1911g desert eagle mark vii pistol mark xix pistol magnum lite rim fire rifle magnum research bfr big frame revolver micro desert eagle .380 acp mr eagle series pistols mountain eagle center fire rifle new baby eagle fast action desert eagle 1911 .45 acp baby eagle ii discontinued models edit original baby eagle 9mm .40 s & w or .45 acp lone eagle single shot center fire pistol for rifle cartridges magnum research sp 21 mountain eagle pistol .22 lr mr99 eagle walther p99 version references edit kahr purchases magnum research inc. pdf press release . kahr arms . june 10 2010 . retrieved august 16 2010 . taffin john 2005 . the desert eagle of magnum research . guns magazine . 30 8 . access date requires url help a b hartink a.e. 2002 . the complete encyclopedia of pistols and revolvers . edison new jersey chartwell books inc. pp. 165 167 . isbn 978 0 7858 1519 8 . bodinson holt 1999 . extreme revolvers . guns magazine 3 . access date requires url help spomer ron 1997 . tradition or high tech . sporting classics . 12 5 . access date requires url help micro desert eagle press release . espn outdoors . january 16 2009 . retrieved january 3 2010 . external links edit magnum research inc. israel military industries ltd. coating services group retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title magnum research & oldid 743514933 categories companies based in pike county pennsylvaniaamerican companies established in 1979firearm manufacturers of the united statesfirearms manufacturers in pennsylvaniamanufacturing companies based in pennsylvaniamanufacturing companies established in 1979companies disestablished in 20101979 establishments in pennsylvania2010 disestablishments in pennsylvaniamanufacturing companies based in minnesotahidden categories pages using citations with accessdate and no urlpages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages espa olnorsk bokm l edit links this page was last modified on 10 october 2016 at 00 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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