This is probably the first SkinnErGram some of you have received. Many of you own or operate businesses that have recently signed on with STI as a Dealer, Preferred Dealer, or Range Program participant. (Some of you have simply not gotten them because the Email address that we had for you was incorrect.) Welcome aboard to all of you. Past issues of S-grams are posted on the website if you'd like to catch up.

Thank you very much for working with us while we are bringing the new system on-line and growing rapidly at the same time. Below was my request in SkinnErgram #64:

“While we understand that you all have concerns as to the delivery dates on your products and we want to provide you with as much information as possible, we ask you at this time to please not call your STI Sales Contact to check order status. Until the total system is fully functional, they have no way to determine a specific date during a phone conversation. It costs you money to call us and it costs us money to call you back. FAX or Email your inquiries. You won't be ignored and your answers will be more complete and accurate.”

Please continue in this manner for a while longer. It is proving to be of great benefit to us during this period. If it is causing you great hardship, please let me know directly.

The Custom Shop has to remain closed for the time being, also. Sorry, but I explained why in #64. (Trying to catch up on factory guns.)

If the first quarters' growth is a measurement of how the above items (along with the new equipment, people, processes, system, etc.) are contributing to our ability to “catch up”, then we are doing well. Our first quarter deliveries to you are up over 42.5% above the same period last year. Guns up 51.7%.

Bear with us; we'll get there.

If some of you “Preferred Dealers” (both new and veteran) have not yet received your wall banner , please Email your STI Sales Contact to make sure that you are on the list.

If some of you “Dealers” have the wall space available and would like a STI poster to fill the void, same method and contact.

Starting soon, the website will list only Distributors, Preferred Dealers, and Range Program participants, companies that carry STI guns in their inventory. Regular Dealers, folks that just order a gun when a customer requests, will then be found under the FFL Locator.

As a “heads up”: We will probably stop manufacturing replacement parts for Para Ordnance guns sometime this year. Triggers, mag catches, magazines, and magazine replacement bodies. If this could hamper your future business, you might want to stock up.

Have fun. Do good. Sell a bunch. Not necessarily in that order!