[Eric in the Ozarks]

The phrase “You didn’t build that,” rings a bit hollow...

[smokingfrog]

Much of his work was done in his garage, including early orders when his works began getting publicity in articles he and others wrote for magazines. In 1945, he went full-time into a gun manufacturing business in the back of a small sporting goods store. Like a lot of businesses, the early years had many challenges. In 1947, his wife sold a 160-acre Kansas farm she’d inherited for $21,000 to save the fledgling firearms company.