www.fbmginc.com

It is up and running.  We’re still posting products and tweaking.  We still have like 8,000 pictures to post.  But the page is good to go. 

Fellow bloggers, do me a favor and spread the word, if you don’t mind.  My company webpage has been down for so long that people were starting to think that we’d gone out of business.  It was getting a little exasperating to complete a move into a building that was literally ten times bigger than our old store, only to have the word on the interwebs being that we were obviously defunct because our webpage was toast.  That’s the problem when you’ve got a company full of gun fanatics who’s idea of how to fix computers usually involves Tannerite charges. 

If you’ve got any comments or feedback, let me know and I’ll pass it along to the guy that’s spearheading this beast.

Our new page is crosslinked directly to our largest suppliers, so we can access thousands of products.  This is going to be sweet.

We will be doing a group buy on Bates boots during the month of June. FBMG is getting set up as a Bates dealer, and will be turning our opening order in at the end of the month. So to kick this off, we’re doing a group buy with killer prices.

Go to http://www.batesfootwear.com/ pick any boot that you want. Take the retail price and subtract 40%. Add $8 per pair if we need to ship them.

(take retail price and multiply it by .60, that is our group buy price).

To place your order with a credit card, call 801-571-1160. To pay with a check or money order, send it to:

FBMG
48 E. 13200 S.
Draper, UT 84020

Please include a good description of EXACTLY (size, options) what you are ordering. Do not forget to include the shipping.

We will turn the order in at the end of the month. Delivery times are dependant on Bates. Most models and regular sizes are in stock. Some items will take longer based on availability.

If you have any questions, post them on our discussion board We will be doing a group buy on Bates boots during the month of June. FBMG is getting set up as a Bates dealer, and will be turning our opening order in at the end of the month. So to kick this off, we’re doing a group buy with killer prices.

Go to http://www.batesfootwear.com/ pick any boot that you want. Take the retail price and subtract 40%. Add $8 per pair if we need to ship them.

(take retail price and multiply it by .60, that is our group buy price).

To place your order with a credit card, call 801-571-1160. To pay with a check or money order, send it to:

FBMG
48 E. 13200 S.
Draper, UT 84020

Please include a good description of EXACTLY (size, options) what you are ordering. Do not forget to include the shipping.

We will turn the order in at the end of the month. Delivery times are dependant on Bates. Most models and regular sizes are in stock. Some items will take longer based on availability.

If you have any questions, post them here, or e-mail me at http://www.fbmg.yuku.com/topic/724/master/1/ , or e-mail me at larry@fbmginc.com

We did a CZ group buy a couple of months ago and it was a huge success. I’ve been getting a ton of e-mails from people that missed out, so I’m going to go ahead and do another one.

This is how it is going to work. Look at www.czusa.com Pick out which models you are interested in, and then send me an e-mail at larry@fbmginc.com and I will respond with a quote. The prices will be excellent. Anybody that ordered CZs from me last time knows what I’m talking about. These will be the best prices on CZ that you will find.

This applies to rifles, shotguns, pistols, and Dan Wesson guns too. There was a 5% increase from CZ last month because of the exchange rate, and that did change the price of some of the imported guns. So if I provided you a quote on the last buy, those prices may have changed.

I will be ordering guns continuously during the month. (basically everytime I’ve got 3 long guns or 3 hand guns I don’t have to pay shipping).

Shipping times from CZ to me will vary on gun to gun. Guns that are in stock at CZ will ship quickly. Anything that isn’t in the country may take longer. I can’t really give ETAs. Of the 34 guns ordered on the February CZ group buy, I delivered 25 within a month, then a few over the next month, and I’m still waiting for the last 2 that are on back order. (452 .22 Mag and CZ85 Combat).

Please spread the word and tell your friends.

Mitch Vilos, attorney and gun rights activist, will be speaking at FBMG Friday April 11th at 6:00.  This is a free Q&A session.  So if you’ve ever wanted to chance to ask somebody the hard questions about Utah gun laws, this is your chance. 

So if you’re in the area, drop on by.

The FBMG website is going to be down for a few days.  The new and improved website will be up soon.  If anyone needs anything, contact us at 801-571-1160.

Most of the guns arrived, and the we’ve shipped the first out. 

We got almost all of the handguns, but are still waiting for .32s, .22s, and a few others.

The Dan Wessons arrived, and shipped, and we even got our Valors.

The Vz rifles have arrived, and will be going out tomorrow, or as soon as I get their FFLs.

About half the shotguns arrived, and were shipped.

We are still waiting for some bolt actions.  We got some .22s, but are no center fire bolt guns have arrived yet.

With that wrapped up, I’ll be launching an STI Group Buy and Sig Group Buy shortly.

Click on them to get the full size view.  We are ready to rock.  Come by and see us.

The FBMG convoy got back from SHOT show last night, and we promptly set about working on the new store.  Our grand opening is in a few days, and there is a lot of work to be done.

Once I get everything squared away on this front, I’ll take some time to compose a big post about SHOT.  Overall it was fun, and we got a lot of work done.  Plus we got to be 20 feet from the first negligent discharge in 30 years of SHOT shows.  So it was like historic and stuff.

Our new store is three times bigger than the old place, and that is just the retail space alone.  You walk in, turn to the side, and it is just this big, open room.  Bright, airy, tall ceilings, light colored slat wall, it looks gorgeous, you have no idea how excited I am.

For those of you that are locals and have been shopping with us for the last two years, you know that our old parking situation sucked.  We shared a parking lot with the Ramada Inn, and you got to walk through the bushes to get to our front door.  Sure, there was parking closer, but those were all claimed by our landlord.   The new place has 30+ parking spaces, right in front.

The old building was cramped.  My paperwork area was right behind the cash register.  Which meant that I could never get any of the daily BS, that makes running a small business so fun, actually done.  Now I have an office. 

Our official grand opening date is on Monday the 11^th.  (and we’re open Mondays from now on, we will only be closed on Sunday).  Between now and then, we’ve got tons of work to do.  Who would have thought that moving a business would be slightly complicated.  Go figure. 

To kick off our grand opening, we will be having some very special sales.  The biggest sale will be what we are calling the FBMG Economic Stimulus Package.  If you thought our Christmas sale was awesome, just wait for this.  Our goal is to get a good Evil Black Rifle in the hands of everyone before one of the various douche bags running for president gets in and starts randomly banning everything fun. 

The Economic Stimulus Package AR will have an added bonus too.  I forgot to mention earlier, but FBMG is now a Stag authorized service center, so for warranty work, (not that we’ve ever really had any warranty issues with Stag) your official lifetime warranty work can be done right here at our shop.

We will also be running two simultaneous group buys this month, CZ and Kahr.  I’ll post more details in the next couple of days.  Basically I won’t be advertising prices, you’ll need to e-mail me for a quote (at a really super good price), and then order.  You will be able to pick any of their products (that includes Dan Wesson, and long guns, even the Vz rifles). I’ll be ordering a large quantity of each to help stock the new store, and this will be a good chance to jump in on that order to help my initial numbers up.

All three of these sales will be for both locals, and we will ship to out of state dealers.  I’m thinking about getting a PM9 for my wife, and a vz58 for myself, but that is totally dependant upon how many guns you guys buy this month.  Ahh… the joys of being a small business man. 

Because we got to work directly with the High-Mack-Daddy of Laser-Simulator based training at SHOT, I’ve personally learned a lot of new things to maximize the value of our Prism simulator.  I thought I had a clue how to get the full value out of a Prism, but seeing this guy in action, teaching hard core professionals, really opened my eyes.  We built a special room right off the custom gun counter, and we’ll be renting it out constantly. 

If you’ve been calling the shop, you’ve been getting a full voice-mail box.  Sorry about that.  The phone company has not got our number transferred over yet, so our primary phone line is in limbo right now.  As has been my fbmginc.com e-mail address for the last week.  I’ll try to respond to everyone as communication access is restored.  Right now my options are A. take a flame thrower down to the phone company and dispense indiscriminate justice.  Or B  Take up alcoholism.  Or C.  Just wait until the phone line is ported over on Monday.  So, looks like C is the winner… for now.  (flame thrower hums menacingly in background) 

The retail will be open the 11^th.  We’ll break ground on the addition for the range in the next few months, and we’ll be shooting here in 2008.   24 lanes, 25 meters, all rifle rated.  I’m so pumped.

So come and see us on Monday. 

As of tomorrow we are going to lay down the new carpet and we will tear down the old store Thursday and Friday. We will be in the old location part of next week, but then we will be at the SHOT Show. When we get back we will open the new location on 11FEB08.

The new address is 48 E. 13200 S. just a mile south of our current location!

We are going to be running a few specials on AR’s and AK’s. We may not be “Utah’s AR and AK hotspot” but we have the credentials to show that any one of our armorers has more experience than all of the salesmen at any other store combined! And we can prove it! We are going to be building more and more custom AR’s and AK’s with our new shop space. What ever you want, we can build it for you, and do it right. Our Armorers are either veterans of Vector’s factory, or they are Depot level and Special Operations Specific Weapons Armorers. In other words, they either buit guns for Vector, or they build and maintain guns for the Special Forces. Nobody else can say that in this town.

Come by and see us, see the new store and new products. We look forward to a wonderful and fun year with you all!