Intratec was a

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company based in

Miami, Florida Miami is a East Coast of the United States, coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Miami-Dade County, Florida, Miami-Dade County in South Florida. It is the core of the Miami metropolitan area, which, with a populat ...

, US. The company's most famous product was the

TEC-9 The Intratec TEC-9, TEC-DC9, KG-99, and AB-10 are a line of blowback-operated semi-automatic pistols. They were developed by Intratec, an American subsidiary of the Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. Introduced in 1984, the TEC-9 is ...

History

Intratec began as Interdynamic USA, an offshoot of Swedish firearms manufacturer Interdynamic AB. As a result of the lack of a competitive firearms market in Sweden, Interdynamic AB set up a subsidiary in the United States to sell the KG-9. Called Interdynamic USA. The company was operated by George Kellgren, Carlos Garcia and Mercedes Garcia. This company eventually became Intratec when

George Kellgren George Kellgren (born May 23, 1943) is a Swedish-born firearms designer, inventor and founder of the gun manufacturer Kel-Tec. His designs include the Intratec TEC-9, Kel-Tec P-11, Kel-Tec KSG, Kel-Tec SUB-2000 carbine and Grendel Inc., Grendel P ...

left the company and Carlos Garcia renamed it Intratec, and continued to sell variants of KG-99, later known as the model it would be known for, the Tec-9. The company went out of business in 2001. Interdynamic-KG-9-Review-1

Products

Intratec was known for numerous handgun designs using polymer frames and steel stampings.

CAT series

Designed by famed Israeli gun designer Nehemia Sirkis, the CAT-9, CAT-380, CAT-40, and CAT-45 pistols are polymer-framed semi-automatic handguns chambered in

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, .380 Auto, .40 S&W, and

.45 ACP The .45 ACP ( Automatic Colt Pistol), also known as .45 Auto, .45 Automatic, or 11.43×23mm is a rimless straight-walled handgun cartridge designed by John Moses Browning in 1904, for use in his prototype Colt semi-automatic pistol. After su ...

, respectively. The design is a derivative of Sirkis' original all-steel Sardius SD-9 pistol.

Protec series

The Protec-22 and Protec-25 are small semi-automatic handguns chambered in .22 Long Rifle and .25 ACP, respectively. The Protec-25 is a CZ 45 clone.

TEC-9

The TEC-9 is the third version of this gun, made and marketed by one of the original principal partners that produced this style of 9mm pistol, first as the open-bolt semi-automatic KG-9 and then as the closed-bolt semi-automatic KG-99. The TEC-9 name was applied when the Kellgren and Garcia partnership ended and Carlos Garcia went solo as Intratec of Miami, FL.

TEC-22

The TEC-22 is a handgun chambered in .22 Long Rifle. It uses

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magazines.

TEC-38

The TEC-38 is a polymer-framed two-shot

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chambered in .38 Special, made for a short period from 1986-1988. The TEC-38 was also made in .22 WMR, .32 H&R Magnum, and .357 Magnum.

References

{{reflist Defunct firearms manufacturers of the United States Companies based in Miami 2001 disestablishments in the United States Manufacturing companies disestablished in 2001 Defunct manufacturing companies based in Florida