You are correct, started in 1965 by fishing and hunting wholesalers in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma.With all due respect, isn't "Talo" just a small group of individual firearm distributors that joined together into a single entity to have enough purchasing-power to order "special run" firearms from manufacturers including GLOCK, Ruger, S&W, etc? I've bought 'em before. There's nothing "wrong" with them. Yet realizing that I usually STILL BUY aftermarket goodies (sights, grips, trigger-tunes, etc.) for even the Talo editions, I've decided I'm money ahead just to start...from scratch. :biggrin2: