Henry Repeating Arms is a firearms manufacturing company, one of the top five long gun manufacturers in the United States and the leading lever action manufacturer. Henry Repeating Arms takes its name from Benjamin Tyler Henry, the inventor who patented the first repeating rifle in 1860. The company resurrected the Henry name in 1996 and started manufacturing rifles in Brooklyn, New York. In September 2008 the company moved its headquarters to a facility in Bayonne, New Jersey and presently employs 250 people. The company also owns a facility in Rice Lake, Wisconsin where they cast and machine the receivers for the Henry rifles as well as supply other gun parts. Henry Repeating Arms also produces bolt action and pump-action rimfire rifles as well as a new generation of the AR-7 takedown ri