Astra-Unceta y Cia SA

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Astra Unceta y Cía was a Spanish weapons manufacturer founded on 17 July 1908, under the name Esperanza y Unceta by Juan Esperanza and Pedro Unceta, renamed to Unceta y Compañía in 1925, and finally changing to Astra-Unceta y Compañía S.A. in 1953. Initially based in Eibar, the centre of the Basque arms industry, the company moved in 1913 to Guernica. One of the very few private arms companies allowed to operate after Spanish Civil War, it continued producing handguns for the Spanish government and export markets until the company filed for bankruptcy in 1997.

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