Johnny Noveske started Noveske Rifleworks in the fall of 2001 with the simple idea of taking attention to detail and quality materials, usually reserved for custom match rifles, and applying it to the AR15. At the tail end of the Clinton Era Assault Weapon Ban, the AR15 was a mass produced rack rifle made to the forgiving military specifications and tarnished by lingering rumors of reliability and accuracy issues from the Vietnam war. In his garage in Grants Pass, Oregon on a Logan lathe, Johnny set out to make the AR15 shorter, more accurate and most importantly, more reliable.

With a watchmaker's attention to detail, inherited from his dad, John Sr., Johnny developed proprietary metal specifications for barrel blanks, perfecting his own chamber dimensions and method for lubricating the reamer while chambering. News of the secret sauce from the mountains of southern Oregon spread and as the Global War on Terror started, Special Operations Forces around the Middle East started using Noveske barrels, shortly after 9/11. As demands of a new war evolved, Johnny responded by creating shorter, lighter and more accurate barrels for the world's most elite soldiers, setting a new standard for industry to follow.

Back home in the States, Noveske Rifleworks expanded beyond the garage and into warehouses in Grants Pass. To meet demand, Johnny hired his friends to chamber and profile barrels and bought more Logan lathes while maintaining strict quality control and chambering methods, an identical process to how he did it back in his garage. Lorina, Johnny's wife, was always close by with their 3 children, and began developing NOVESKE’s iconic branding and marketing style. Johnny, always ahead of the curve on the direction of small arms, was influential in the development and widespread adoption of 300 blackout as well as evolution of mounting systems beyond 1913 rails.

In 2013, Johnny died in a car accident in Grants Pass. Lorina and the employees of the company, continued Johnny's legacy by growing the business all while keeping Noveske's original process and quality control intact.

Now in their 25th year, Noveske still uses Johnny's original Logan lathe and has solidified its place as one of the world's leading manufacturers of fighting rifles, equipping elite special operations forces, hunters and competitors. Lorina, the matriarch of the business, keeps the wheels on and the company true to its roots. Abe and Elgin, Lorina and Johnny's sons, are involved in the business building handling police trade ins and building rifles. Many of Johnny's first hires and closest friends work for the company to this day. There's no private equity or parent companies, just a family business and a group of employees that take pride in every barrel cut and rifle built. In an age of automation, outsourcing and corner cutting, every Noveske barrel is hand chambered and finished on the same machines, with the same processes that we've been using for the last quarter century, resulting in the best rifles money can buy.