Timeline Stories

GunForce opens its Adelaide showroom and online sales channels as the Australian relaunch into the retail market. The store sells a range of firearms and accessories as well as all Lightforce Group products.

Establishment of Force Ordnance, drawing together the Lightforce Group with a global consortium of key partners to supply to defence and law enforcement clientele.  

Lightforce Group expands further with the acquisition of US reticle design company Horus Vision whose reticle designs were already a part of the Nightforce product range; creating a fully in-house network of product.

Paroo Pastoral Company is acquired, with pastoral properties across South Australia and New South Wales

APRS established in order to create a high quality platform to deliver premium performance through a retail rifle and maintenance service. Using some of the finest components machined to exact tolerances to produce a true precision rifle.

Lightforce begins production of driving lights, developing brackets to mount hunting lights on vehicles. This is where the brand’s recognition is cemented in Australia – being seen on the front of many vehicles on the road.

The Lightforce name becomes available in the US and is acquired to be used only for lighting products (with the Nightforce brand remaining dedicated to optics).

The company moves into the US market with the establishment of Lightforce USA, which trades under the name Nightforce Optics (the Lightforce name is unavailable). Due to restrictions on using lights for hunting at night, the focus is solely on optics products.

RL Dennis manufacturing is established and renamed Lightforce Australia. Concentrating on the sporting light market and building a brand that would soon go global.