Tanfoglio Guru

About Tanfoglio

Tanfoglio is an Italian gun manufacturer. The guns they are producing are used in competitions or self defense. The handguns are also imported into the United States. The company was founded in the 1940s and the first production focused on parts - receivers and hammers. After 8 years they started producing replicas of guns and later on their own designs.

The original Israel Military Industries (IMI) Jericho 941 (CZ 75 copy) semi-automatic pistols were built using parts supplied by the Italian arms house Tanfoglio. Using a well-tested design allowed IMI to avoid the teething problems most new pistol designs experience, and subcontracting much of the basic fabrication work to Tanfoglio allowed IMI to quickly and economically put into production a pistol that would have enough Israeli content to satisfy government contract requirements.