Well, under the heading of "Time flies when you're having fun": The STI Edge has been in production for ten (10) years now. Can you believe that it's been the most used gun in USPSA "Limited" and IPSC "Standard" Divisions for that long? That certainly gave us a base to build on!

Just a reminder to all of you, the only remaining guns on which custom serial numbers are available are the "Edge" and the "Eagle". Please stop asking our sales folks to bend the rules. Thank you!

There is a distinct possibility that custom serial #'s will be offered on Short Blocks, Slide to Frame Fits, and Frames in SRA quantities (16X) only soon. No singles! Just a reminder, too, that custom serial numbers are not available on single stack frames or assemblies unless you are an O.E.M. ordering under a BATF "Variance".

Price increases on all slides, 1911 frames, "2011" frames and all the things that they go into, except guns and short blocks , go into effect TODAY . We held the price for 13 years with STI absorbing all of the price increases in steel, polymers, fine blanks, screw machining, cutting tools, molding, and labor. Those orders on the books currently are good at the agreed old price. New orders entered from this date will be at the new price.

Realizing that many of you who publish annual catalogs and price lists have gone to press with this years publication (but with us all understanding that all prices of all things are subject to change without notice) we apologize that we couldn't give you more notice. The study just took a lot longer than we anticipated and we just didn't want a lot of rumor and speculation about what we were going to do. All things considered, it is a lot less dramatic than I expected that it would need to be.

Effective April 1, 2007 , STI will cease accepting payment from Distributors by credit card. You guys are businessmen enough to do the math. Please adjust your internal procedures appropriately. No changes at the moment for Dealers.

Shame on me! It's been three years ( March 2, 2004 ) since this was last mentioned (in Sgram #63, last paragraph) and we have added a very large number of Distributors and Preferred Dealers since. The way our production management software works is this: We put in an order and it gets scheduled. If you want to change the order after it's placed, the old order is cancelled and the new (changed) order is entered and takes its' place at the end of the "on order" list. This is just a reminder that if you don't order exactly what you want the first time, you loose your place in line. Your customers need to understand that, also.

Welcome to "EF-Security" of Finland and to "Phoenix Group" on Malta , our newest non-US Distributors. You're in very good company.

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