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If names mean anything in the business world, then two Pueblo natives have owned one of the coolest businesses in town for the past 15 years.
Arctic Shooting Supply, 411 W. 6th St., is cool in a number of ways, according to owners Brad Emerson and Ray Hart.
For one thing, there's a wide variety of new and used firearms, plus a lot of other stuff.
We have anything from .22 single-shot kids' guns on up to a 10- gauge goose gun, Hart said. We probably do more gun transactions than anybody in town - or even in southern Colorado. We average 10 to 15 a day. We have contracts with the Colorado Department of Corrections, the Pueblo sheriff's department, the local police department, and we do extensive sales of the body armor - point- blank body armor.
The body armor is primarily sold to law enforcement personnel, Hart said, but those in the military also have need of such equipment.
We sell body armor nationwide. We even sold to the Army up at Fort Carson, Hart said. They couldn't get enough. Right when they were going into Iraq, they couldn't get enough. We even had a captain from up there call us for magazines for their M-16s. They wanted 400 or 500 of them. We don't stock that many - they don't sell that well - but we told them we could have them in a couple of days.
Life in the Arctic environment didn't always involve providing the military with hot items on short notice, Emerson said. In fact, back in 1986, he never would have thought about supplying the Army with anything.
In those days, the Centennial High School graduate, who had subsequently learned...