This is a part of "Hometown Storytellers," a series of pieces introducing the public to the people who keep the Ithaca Times ...

The company was founded in 1880 in Ithaca and became world renown for manufacturing high-quality, affordable guns such as the Deerslayer and Deerslayer II.

ITHACA (WBNG) -- Nearly 24 years to the day after Toxics Targeting revealed widespread pollution hazards at the former site of an Ithaca gun factory, it is now calling on the state to take action.