Career
He retired from defense work and began designing sporting equipment, including the Mickey Finn T-Bar Putter, a golf putter. Foreign thirty years Finn designed weapons systems for the United States. military and other government agencies. In the industry he was referred to as "Q", after the special weapons supplier Q in James Bond fiction, and the name of Finn"s original research company After extensive research into black operations, author Tom Clancy used Finn"s name to add an extra measure of realism to The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
Finn retired from the defense industry after this public mention and started a business selling military and hunting knives.
Finn and his M9 bayonet design were profiled in the January 5, 1987 issue of People magazine. Was a research and development firm originally based in Oceanside, California United States.
lieutenant later moved to Chino Valley, Arizona, United States. lieutenant was owned and operated by Finn and specialized in signature suppression and muzzle control devices for firearms.
lieutenant also provided classified weapons systems to the United States. government until it was forced to close when author Tom Clancy outed Finn and his company in the novel The Cardinal of the Kremlin.
"Everything I design is the best, regardless of cost. In the weapons industry, if what you make has defects it costs lives. I couldn"t live with that type of guilt.".