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I could produce 500 units tomorrow, but it’s the additional 11% tax that the ATF charges and once you get that on there the cost of the custom guns we would be building goes up by that amount.Ĭheaper Than Dirt Can we expect to see any “bare-bones” custom guns produced by Lone Wolf? Something along the lines of an STI Spartan maybe? I’ve got some concept designs that I’ve sent out to the USPSA and asked them where we need to be to meet their requirements and make 500 units.

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I full well plan on overcoming that hurdle, probably some time within the next year. Right now we’re just selling cheap parts.Ĭheaper Than Dirt So there is a bit of a regulatory hurdle you’ve got to overcome if you make the decision to move into building actual firearms instead of just selling parts. Once that happens, the price has to go up. Here’s the thing though: If we began building custom guns using the parts that we have now, as soon as we build more than 50 guns we fall into the higher BATFE tax rate of 11% for firearm manufacturers. Some of the guns that you’re seeing, including the one that you tested, are project guns that we’re doing. We’re still doing them as custom builds for the customer. We’re not actually releasing the completed guns just yet. The custom gunworks that we have going is still in its infancy. For IDPA, you need to produce 2,000 units per year to qualify for certain divisions, and they’ve got some regulations in there that make it difficult for a new gun manufacturer to get into.Ĭheaper Than Dirt Lone Wolf has experienced rapid growth over the years, moving from basic parts and aftermarket accessories into becoming a full custom gun shop. Yes, in fact I have a few plans to get into that.

Now with our status in the industry where it is at, I have people come to me all the time with ideas and suggestions for new products or improvements to existing products.Ĭheaper Than Dirt What about concealed carry and defensive pistols? Can we expect to see more parts that are aimed at competitors in IDPA? People would say “You know, if this part did this, it would be better, and you could make an improvement over here too,” and I knew the right people in the industry who could do those things and bring them to market. Being an innovator is just an act of listening. No, I actually have a background as an action pistol shooter and also ran the cable access program, and we used to team up with these guys and listen to them and what they wanted in a gun. Of course it used to be just mass quantities of alcohol and we’d just dream something up *chuckles* They want to do the best that they can, and that comes down to equipment sometimes.Ĭheaper Than Dirt How do you go about developing these various parts? Do customers come to you and request various items? Our customers usually own multiple Glocks and tweak them all of the time. Yeah, we cater to the guy who owns a hot rod and wants to tweak his engine and put on headers and mag wheels. With Aro-Tek and Glock being synonymous in parts, I got hooked up with the Glock crew directly and ran with them on all of the early tournaments during the inception of the GSSF (the Glock Shooting Sports Foundation).Ĭheaper Than Dirt It’s the aftermarket parts that are your main bread and butter, right?. I hooked up with the Aro-Tek crew, and that was about the time that Glock first came into the US. Our motto was “We’ll go fishin’ when we’re out of ammunition.”

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I used to run with the crew from Aro-Tek, and at the time I was doing a TV show called “Sportsmen of the Northwest, it was a cable access show and we were doing all things that go bang. We started out with basic items actually. from Lone Wolf Distributors to talk about the gun and learn more about Lone Wolf’s custom division.Ĭheaper Than Dirt Lone Wolf has been manufacturing aftermarket products for Glock pistols for some time now-Ĭheaper Than Dirt What were some of the first products that Lone Wolf got started manufacturing?

No sooner had we released this little sneak peek than we became inundated with people wanting to know where they could acquire their own Glock based competition race gun.

40 caliber pistol assembled from Lone Wolf’s Timberwolf frame and USPSA Open division legal Werewolf slide and compensator.