FEASTING ON CRUMBS

TriStar Arms: Have you heard of them? If that answer is “no,” you don’t need to start questioning your gun knowledge. The brand has only been around for a short time and, oddly enough, TriStar’s success story was almost never written—until Gus Bader bought the pen in 2005. But his love affair with firearms began long before he bought TriStar.

“It was almost purely by accident,” said Bader, president of TriStar. “In my previous life, I worked for Carrier. I was stationed in Greece and had most of Europe, northern Africa and the Middle East as my territory. Growing up in Lebanon, shooting sports were few and far between, but my father introduced me to shotgun shooting, and I was hooked.

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