What is "gamo"

Gamo is an airgun manufacturer. The company is based in Spain and is the largest producer of guns and rifles in Europe, and the largest producer of pellets in the world. The company was founded in 1959, as El Gamo, and airgun production first started in 1961. Today Gamo production includes rifles, pistols, ammunition and optics. They produce primarily low end air guns intended for mass market.

When Manganese Bronze Holdings liquidated what remained of the gun division of The Birmingham Small Arms Company in 1986 assets including the logo and the right to use the initials, BSA, were purchased by Gamo who have continued the air rifle business at Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham B11 2PP under the name BSA Guns (UK) Limited.

During the 1970s in the UK El Gamo marketed two air rifles, the Marksman, a conventional .22 rifle with a fitted and already zeroed telescopic sight, and the Paratrooper repeater, a .177 pistol-gripped repeating rifle incorporating a tubular magazine along the top of the cylinder, and using a rising/falling breech mechanism for positioning the pellet.

Gamo may refer to:

• Gamo (airgun manufacturer), a Spanish airgun manufacturer
• Gamō clan (蒲生氏, Gamō-shi), a Japanese clan which claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan
• Gamo people, an Ethiopian ethnic group
• Gamō, Shiga (蒲生町, Gamō-chō), a former town located in Gamō District, Shiga, Japan
• Gamō Station (蒲生駅, Gamō-eki), a station on the Tōbu Railway located in Koshigaya, Saitama, Japan
• Gamō (surname)
• Gamō-yonchōme Station (蒲生四丁目駅, Gamō-Yonchōme-eki), a train station on the Osaka Municipal Subway Imazatosuji Line and Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line in Jōtō-ku, Osaka, Japan
• Spanish frigate El Gamo, an 1801 32-gun Spanish Navy frigate

Gamō is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Gamō clan (蒲生氏, Gamō-shi), Japanese clan which claimed descent from the Fujiwara clan
• Gamō Hiroshi , manga artist known for his works at the magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump
• Gamō Sigeo (蒲生, 重男; ガモウ, シゲオ, born 1928), Japanese biologist and specialist of crustaceans
• Gamō Hideyuki (蒲生 秀行, 1583–1612), Japanese daimyo who ruled the Aizu domain
• Gamō Katahide (1534–1584), Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods
• Gamō Ujisato (蒲生氏郷, 1556–1595), Japanese daimyo of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods