The story goes that Richard Gallagher, who founded the company, was interested in leather work,

and he was working basically out of his living room.

And a Chicago area police officer knocked on his door and said, hey, I hear you work with leather.

Could you make me a holster?

So this was what kind of launched what became the famous work with leather. Could you make me a holster? So this was what kind of launched,

what became the famous jackass leather company.

I'm Ryan Gresham.

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Hey, welcome into Gun Talk Nation.

Today on Gun Talk Nation, we're talking with an industry veteran, a guy who is a shooter,

knowledgeable, and as Chris Reno described him earlier, has a lot of heart and a lot of brain.

I mean, he's a Renaissance man.

And we're going to talk holsters and everything behind a company you know, Galco.

Mike, welcome in, man.

Good to be here.

Thank you.

Thanks for coming back.

You're here for one of our experience classes, the cult event.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, I had a great time at the Python experience that you did last year with the AFR guys.

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