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Olympic is still a family-run business. Robert’s son Brian serves as Vice President and oversees manufacturing. Robert’s daughter, Diane Haupert, handles the administrative side of things as Chief Financial Officer. The company’s 16,000 square-foot plant in Washington employees about sixty people, and their casting facility in Costa Mesa, California, employs another twenty folks.

Olympic’s manufacturing processes utilize state-of-the art CNC machines that finish parts in a single operation and eliminate “tolerance stacking” that can occur when several machines perform operations on a single part. Remember that the AR is an “assembled” gun, not a “fitted” gun. Top-quality component parts are the key to quality.

Upper receivers come either with a carry handle with a rear sight, or a flat top with Picatinny rails. Gas blocks can have an A2 front sight that is compatible with the carry handle rear sight, or can be flat top so as to not interfere with the optics. Heavyweight bull barrels with a crowned muzzle or more slender military weights with an A2 flash suppressor are made in lengths from 16 to 24 inches, and more than one twist rate is available.