Founded on July 6th, 2058 by industrialist and inventor Andy Genovese from the wealthy Genovese Family of Inventors and Industrialist. The company in the beginning was began its path to success as a small time weapons company. Thus the first product produced by Maine Weapons in 2060 was not a military weapons but rather their Double Tap Twenty Gauge or DT-20-G which was a single barrel shotgun that packed a hell of a punch and became very popular among hunters, burglars, and a few police departments in rural parts of the US took to using the gun as their standard issue Shotgun due to the amount of firepower it provided for such a low cost for such a effective firearm.