The fox has been guarding this particular henhouse since 2004, when Amor Holdings, then owner of Safariland, bought Bianchi Leather for U$60 million (and sold originally by JB for just U$10.5 million about 15 years prior). At some point, then, Bianchi became merely a brand within Safariland (the overarching conglomerate of that name, not just the LEO equipment company) and that is well established today. Bianchi's new-since-2021 site: Think about it. After the purchase, AN

So I don't have to build it all again, go to this post of mine on coltforum.com . I like the forum there. https://www.coltforum.com/threads/the-spring-loaded-holsters-of-lone-wolf-gonzaullas-texas-ranger.422778/?post_id=3816890#post-3816890 His large collection of unique pistols is here on my blog: https://www.holsterguys.com/post/the-guns-of-gonzaullas MTG, he called himself, had many gunleather sets and the rest are on the Guns of Gonzaullas blog post later in this site pa

That line is a quote from humorist Mark Twain, made during a time when such rumors were circulating about him. Over the last few years I have been receiving claims of the unlikely death of John Bianchi, most recently from my friend Gene DeSantis. Even the folks in the press and the industry whom I know to have a special relationship with my former boss, JB, could neither confirm nor deny. Not even the staffer at the current iteration of the Bianchi Leather company could or

Above, the 1976 article by Larson about the holsters of the old West contains a distinction between what the author has called a Kansas loop, a Denver loop, and a Mexican loop. And I'll comment that 50 years later, in the early 21st century, writers no longer make any distinction at all and call them all "Mexican Loop". I'll also point out that only Heiser in its earliest gunleather catalogues called the style Mexican loop and they quickly abandoned the title anyway. "Mexi