Sundance Industries was a firearms manufacturer established in 1989 by Steven Jennings, the nephew of

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founder George Jennings. Sundance produced a series of inexpensive pocket handguns, which were sold primarily through pawn shops and marketed towards people with low income. As one of the companies connected to Raven Arms, and a maker of

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s, Sundance was described by the U.S.

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as one of the "Ring of Fire companies", a series of companies established around

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, all of which manufactured inexpensive handguns of similar design and all of which were connected to Raven Arms. The majority of their production run involved modified versions of Raven Arms

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and Jennings Arms

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pocket guns with a

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. The guns were constructed of injection-molded

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, a zinc alloy. Sundance went out of business in 2002.

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