From the Marstar website:
"About Marstar : A Brief History
Marstar was incorporated in late 1984 by John and Cynthia St Amour.
Marstar began operations in 1985, our first off shore contacts were in the former Yugoslavia.
By 1987 I was visiting Yugoslavia every few weeks seeking out ever larger inventories of material for our clients.
1988 brought about many changes, we up-graded our warehouse to 7,000 sq ft. added some 500 sq ft of office space, this was expanded again in 1990 to more than 2,500 sq ft.
1989 through 1993, Marstar was expanding at a very rapid rate. We now had a warehousing operation in Yugoslavia and Norway, as well as a warehousing and shop operation in England. In 1991 Marstar was the first western company to open an office in Sofia, Bulgaria. Marstar was now purchasing surplus in Yugoslavia, Norway, Bulgaria, the Middle East, North Africa, Central America....
1995 brought about the darkest period since we began our business, as many of you know we were raided by the authorities and subjected to almost three years of court battles. Enough said, we won our case.
1998, with our legal battles over we now had time to concentrate on rebuilding our mail order business.
In 2000, Marstar was approached by several firms to market their products through our mail order business. We began to sell Leapers optics, ATI synthetic stocks and accessories, Norinco firearms, just to mention a few.
In 2003, Marstar was approached by Frontier Metals (Frontier Bullets) of South Africa, this proved to be a very wise move on our behalf. We also added Pietta, Pedersoli, Chaparral and others to our offerings.
Present time - Thanks to our very dedicated staff of nine full time employees and a number of part-time workers we have grown into a multi million dollar business serving such prestigious clients as the US Marine Corp, The IDF, several police forces around the world. And most important of all YOU, our mail order customer without who we would not be able to enjoy our success. Adding to our inventory companies such as NcStar, AIM, MecGar and more!
Over the past few years Marstar has supplied the weapons used in most of the major motion picture productions filmed in Canada as well as in the USA, Thailand, the Philippines, Australia."
John, FYI, Ross, the owner of The Gun Dealer, in New Brunswick, also runs a multi million dollar business. He has recruited a very talented individual, Mark, to handle all the online business correspondence, including those on this site. Maybe if you had such an individual on your staff, you could focus more on operations, and not use your valuable time getting involved in an online tennis match, where the ball has been constructed by a dung beetle, with said ball getting larger, with each volley. All the best.
