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    MAXIM DEFENSE PDX

    Jan 25, 2019 6 minutes
    BY DAVE MERRILL

    We travel nearly an hour across dry, dusty back roads in rural Idaho. Eventually we pull to a stop outside of a regular-looking steel building on a small family farm. There’s nothing exceptional going on — at least not until you step inside.

    This is the Maxim Defense MukWerx facility, and its remoteness ensures no one will inadvertently come across what they’ve been working up. Inside, more than a dozen 3D printers are churning and buzzing away on new parts and prototypes.

    The old mixes with the new; a weathered manual mill up front, with a CNC machine in the next room. A box of potatoes and another of onions in front of a large rapid prototyping machine belies the rural origins.

    This is where Maxim Defense made their transition from a firearms parts company into a full-scale firearm manufacturer. It shouldn’t be a huge shock that Maxim Defense made this move.

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