glyn bindon headquarters wixom michigan united states products optical sights night vision equipment website http www.trijicon.com footnotes references contractor for the united states military trijicon pronounced tr j k n is an american company based in wixom michigan that manufactures and distributes optical sighting devices for firearms including pistols rifles and shotguns . trijicon specializes in self luminous optics and night sights mainly using the low energy radioactive isotope tritium light gathering fiber optics and batteries . 1 2 3 additionally trijicon is a contractor for the united states military and supplies the advanced combat optical gunsight acog and rx01 reflex sights . the acog reflex tripower accupoint and night sights are available to military law enforcement and civilian markets . 4 contents 1 history 2 controversy 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit trijicon was founded in 1981 by glyn bindon as armson usa the sole us importer and distributor of the armson oeg . the armson oeg was an occluded type gun sight that used tritium and fiber optics in its construction and was manufactured in south africa . 5 in 1985 bindon reorganized the company as trijicon and began manufacture of night sights for pistols . 2 trijicon introduced a tritium filled scope for the us military called the ta01 4x32 advanced combat optical gunsight acog in 1987 . 6 controversy edit main article trijicon biblical verses controversy on january 18 2010 abc news reported that trijicon was placing references to biblical verses on the side of the acog sights sold to the united states military . 7 legal and religious organizations spoke out against the practice and trijicon subsequently ceased the practice and provided clients with kits to remove the bible verse numbers from existing scopes . 8 see also edit aimpoint ab eotech elcan optical technologies itl mars references edit kevin michalowski 28 february 2011 . guns for personal defense arms & accessories for self defense . iola wisconsin gun digest books . p. 126 . isbn 978 1 4402 2673 1 . retrieved 31 may 2013 . a b jerry ahern 5 october 2010 . gun digest buyer s guide to concealed carry handguns . iola wi f w media inc. p. 122 . isbn 978 1 4402 1767 8 . retrieved 31 may 2013 . robert brown 2008 . the ultimate black gun big game rifle . soldier of fortune . omega group limited . 33 72 73 . mir bahmanyar 4 october 2011 . seals the us navy s elite fighting force . san diego osprey publishing . p. 103 . isbn 978 1 78096 078 4 . retrieved 31 may 2013 . long duncan 1989 . ar 15 m16 super systems . boulder co paladin press . pp. 103 108 . isbn 0873645111 . dockery kevin 2007 . future weapons . berkeley berkley publishing group . p. 89 . isbn 978 0 425 21750 4 . u.s. military weapons inscribed with secret jesus bible codes . abc news . retrieved 2010 03 02 . daryl c. cornett 2011 . christian america perspectives on our religious heritage . b & h publishing group . p. 170 . isbn 978 0 8054 4439 1 . retrieved 31 may 2013 . external links edit official website trijicon accupoint shooting times magazine dead link this united states manufacturing company related article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title trijicon & oldid 744146267 categories firearms manufacturersfirearm sightsprivately held companies based in michiganunited states manufacturing company stubshidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from july 2016all stub articles 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 languages italiano edit links this page was last modified on 13 october 2016 at 11 38 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view