Thanks for the additional information. Some of the dates do not make any sense to me. I was selling Kassnar MZ's in the 80's and early 90's. And many of the imported shotguns(by Kassnar) predate the dates given. I believe some of the information(dates) in the second part is wrong, but that is just my opinion. I know that I owned CD shotguns(imported by Kassnar)before 1996. As a matter of fact I no longer worked for them in 1996. And if you call Outdoor Sports they will tell you they own CD. But what the heck. I do not believe that OSHI was an importer-so I guess they needed to use some one. But I still do not believe that Kassnar owns the "Trade Name", Tom.