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Barrett Firearms Manufacturing

Barrett Firearms Manufacturing is a Murfreesboro, Tennessee small-arms builder best known for large-caliber precision rifles, especially the M82/M107 family, and now operates within the NIOA Group.

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Barrett Firearms Manufacturing built its reputation around the founder's shoulder-fired .50 BMG rifle concept and grew into a specialist large-caliber rifle manufacturer with a global military and civilian customer base. The company continues to identify Murfreesboro, Tennessee as its headquarters and publicly describes itself as a leader in large-caliber rifle design and manufacturing.

This catalog page exists to contextualize the catalog's Barrett M82A1 / M107 entry and the wider Barrett product line. It emphasizes the firm's American small-arms lineage, its 2023 integration into NIOA Group, and the brand's continuing role in precision rifle production.

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Notable Systems

Barrett M82A1 / M107, Semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle, Infantry Weapons

M82 / M107 family

Semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle

Barrett's signature large-caliber anti-materiel rifle line and the family associated with the cataloged Barrett M82A1 / M107 entry.

Sources: Barrett company page, Barrett 40 years article
Barrett MRAD / MK22, Multi-caliber bolt-action sniper rifle, Infantry Weapons

MRAD

Multi-caliber bolt-action sniper rifle

Barrett's modular precision rifle family; the company timeline notes that the MRAD was adopted by USSOCOM as the Mark 22 Mod 0 in support of the ASR contract.

Sources: Barrett company page

Manufacturer History

  1. Company founded by Ronnie Barrett

    Barrett's official 40-year retrospective says Ronnie Barrett founded the company in 1982 after developing a shoulder-fired .50 BMG rifle concept.

    Sources: Barrett 40 years article

  2. Celebrates four decades of production

    Barrett marked forty years of manufacturing with an official company retrospective that tied the brand to its long-range rifle identity.

    Sources: Barrett 40 years article

  3. Becomes part of NIOA Group

    Barrett's company page states that Barrett became part of the NIOA Group in 2023 while remaining centered in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

    Sources: Barrett company page, NIOA acquires Barrett Firearms

  4. Breaks ground on a new Murfreesboro campus

    Barrett announced construction of a new weapon-systems manufacturing campus in Murfreesboro to expand its production footprint and office operations.

    Sources: Barrett new campus announcement

Website links
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Public sources use Barrett Firearms Manufacturing, Barrett Firearms, and Barrett Firearms Mfg, Inc. interchangeably; this profile normalizes the builder facet to the full manufacturing name and omits headquarters map coordinates because I found a reliable Murfreesboro headquarters statement but no stable geocoded address source for the current HQ.

Manufacturer Sources

  • Barrett company pagePublisher: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing | Note: Supports Barrett's public builder name, Murfreesboro headquarters context, large-caliber rifle design and manufacturing role, and the 2023 NIOA Group ownership statement. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Barrett 40 years articlePublisher: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing | Note: Supports the 1982 founding by Ronnie Barrett and the company's origin as a shoulder-fired .50 BMG rifle project. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Barrett contact pagePublisher: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing | Note: Supports the public Murfreesboro, Tennessee headquarters/contact location used for the profile's headquarters field. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • NIOA acquires Barrett FirearmsPublisher: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing | Note: Supports the 2023 acquisition by NIOA and the resulting ownership context for the builder profile. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Barrett new campus announcementPublisher: Barrett Firearms Manufacturing | Note: Supports the 2025 Murfreesboro manufacturing-campus expansion milestone. | Accessed: 2026-06-21
  • Barrett logo, Wikimedia CommonsPublisher: Wikimedia Commons | Note: Supports the reusable builder logo image; Commons marks the text logo as public domain and identifies it as Barrett Firearms Manufacturing's wordmark. | Accessed: 2026-06-21

Produced weapons

Category

Infantry Weapons

Portable weapons used by soldiers and small units.

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Barrett M82A1 / M107, Semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle, Infantry Weapons2017 Battle of Marawi, 2014 Yemen Civil War +1 moreBarrett M82A1 / M107Semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-materiel rifleBuilt in: United StatesThe Barrett M82A1, adopted by the U.S. Army as the M107 and later developed into the lighter M107A1, is a recoil-operated semi-automatic .50 BMG anti-materiel rifle for long-range fire against equipment, light materiel, and protected positions. Its conflict record in this catalog is strongest where sources directly identify .50-caliber Barrett or M82A1 rifles: Maute-held sniper positions in Marawi, Houthi-aligned use in Yemen, and 400 Mawozo-linked gang arsenals in Haiti.