Navy Arms, owned and operated by Val Forgett, Jr., was an importer established first in Bogata, NJ., where Service Armament's warehouse was, which Forgett also owned, around 1958. Around 1960 seems to be the year Navy Arms transitioned the address over to Ridgefield, NJ location where the Navy Arms' location was. Val Forgett founded Navy Arms as a subsidiary of Service Armament to distribute the very first replica '51 Navy Revolvers in the U.S. and the replica industry was born and became a very large part of the U.S. and Italian gun industry.

Val Forgett, the famous president of the company, was the man who suggested to Colt executives to make Colt 2nd generation black powder revolvers. Established first in Bogota, NJ then in Ridgefield, New Jersey, Navy Arms had its first revolvers, from 1959 to 1963, manufactured by Vittorio Gregorelli and and then Gregorelli and Aldo Uberti. These revolvers will be marked with the initials "G.U." under the barrel or on the barrel flats or on the barrel lug, indicating an association of Gregorelli and Uberti. After that time period, we find the marking on weapons manufactured mainly by Uberti, and Pietta, and also more rarely Pedersoli, Armi Sport and Euroarms with the Ridgefield, New Jersey address on them. But it was Gregorelli & Uberti who got the industry under way in Italy.

Today Navy Arms is owned and operated by Val Forgett, III. They no longer distribute replica revolvers but are still distributing rifles. Read more about Navy Arms and their influence on the replica industry in the "Articles" section of the site.