We all are on our guard when an antique image of, say, Texas Rangers appears online. They can be dated variously but with a bit of persistence one can find that same image in more than one place and settle on a date; and many are from MTG (Manuel T Gonzaullas who helped found the Waco museum). Those of you who are gun buffs will also look to the rifles, for example, in the image, not least because Winchesters in particular are easily recognised and dated from that. I do tha

The fox has been guarding this particular henhouse since 2004, when Amor Holdings, then owner of Safariland, bought Bianchi Leather for U$60 million (and sold originally by JB for just U$10.5 million about 15 years prior). At some point, then, Bianchi became merely a brand within Safariland (the overarching conglomerate of that name, not just the LEO equipment company) and that is well established today. Bianchi's new-since-2021 site: Think about it. After the purchase, AN

So I don't have to build it all again, go to this post of mine on coltforum.com . I like the forum there. https://www.coltforum.com/threads/the-spring-loaded-holsters-of-lone-wolf-gonzaullas-texas-ranger.422778/?post_id=3816890#post-3816890 His large collection of unique pistols is here on my blog: https://www.holsterguys.com/post/the-guns-of-gonzaullas MTG, he called himself, had many gunleather sets and the rest are on the Guns of Gonzaullas blog post later in this site pa

That line is a quote from humorist Mark Twain, made during a time when such rumors were circulating about him. Over the last few years I have been receiving claims of the unlikely death of John Bianchi, most recently from my friend Gene DeSantis. Even the folks in the press and the industry whom I know to have a special relationship with my former boss, JB, could neither confirm nor deny. Not even the staffer at the current iteration of the Bianchi Leather company could or