Submitted by Gene DeSantis, Dec 6, 2006 12:34

Paris Theodore was really responsible for my being in the business. When SA Bill XXXng couldn't get delivery, he asked me to build him one just like the Seventrees model. We were already friends through a mutual acquaintence. With Bill's help and tutelage, I started learning about the real requirements for CCW. He even got me up to Camp Smith and got personal instruction from Roger Robinson, Ralph Gardner, and Jim Paulson. The foundation for my thoughts and design was all FBI, and my engineering background didn't hurt a bit. My last two years at Pratt were subsidized by holsters for the NYFO / FBI, and by the VA. Bill also opened the door for some long time Secret Service business and that's when I knew working in an engineering office just wasn't going to happen! The USSS friends that I made in the early seventies are now running TSA, Air Marshals, US Marshals, and lots of others like Commerce, and Agriculture, and are still, 30+ years later, good friends. The guys that took the Washington retirement are almost all double dipping and , and good for them!

Gene

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