It was 1981 when Ohio Ordnance Works was first established by Robert Landries II. Not in a backyard workshop, like so many small American businesses, but inside a basement. President of OOW Robert Landries III, son of the founder, literally grew up with the deep bass of machineguns blasting from the basement while he ate his Cheerios. “My mother was a very patient woman,” Landries explains.
In addition to the gunfire, those early years largely consisted of buying, selling, and swapping military items on the commercial market, but quickly bloomed into wholesale manufacturing in the 1990s. The following years saw large expansion and ISO certification, but OOW is still a nimble affair with the ability
