Thomas Gray Bennett Was the son-in-Law of Oliver Fisher Winchester and the President of the gun-making firm Winchester Firearms and Ammunition W.R.A. & Co. made famous by his father-in-law. Having worked for W.R.A since 1870, Bennett would retain the presidency for the next 21 years, and the company, under his leadership, would almost grow to quadruple its size. Bennett ushered in the age of modern firearms with automatic, "repeating" mechanisms when he made an historic journey out to the Wild West to buy the manufacturing rights to gunmaker John Moses Browning?s designs. The Browning partnership made the gunmaker famous and ensured that the name of Winchester Firearms and Ammunitions would be placed forever in the annals of modern firearms. Bennett?s presidency oversaw the production of some of the most famous Winchester arms in the 19 years that Browning designed for W.R.A such as the Lever Action Repeating rifles, Lever Action Repeating and Pump Action shotguns. In the early 20th century, W.R.A had created and had almost total dominance of the entirely new market of repeating arms sporting, becoming the country?s largest producer. At the time of Bennett?s death in 1930, W.R.A had maintained over 75 years of family ownership. Based in ew Haven, Connecticut, the Winchester-Bennett legacy lives on in Winchester designed firearms now made under the name of U.S. Repeating Arms.