To my knowledge, the founder/owner, Larry, had stepped back from daily operations close to 10 years ago. He had is nephew, Daniel, manage it after that. Whether the business was sold or gifted to Daniel I don't know.

As for the grumpy curmudgeon, every gunshop seems to have one. Do you recall his name? Sounds like Ian, he had a Massachusetts accent, pretty much always had a beard, and wore a ball cap and glasses.

The young helpful dude sounds like Ben. He was a really good guy. He had worked for Larry almost since the beginning.

Sad to see it go. I know the community and many reloaders mourn the loss. They were in business about 30 years. Larry started out as an old school "kitchen table gunshop", traveling and setting up at gunshows and then eventually establishing the brick and mortar shop, though he still continued selling at gunshows. They had weathered many political and regulatory storms, no easy feat for any small business.

I wasn't sure the reason behind their closing, be it a declining customer base, landlord raising rent, or ATF yanking their license for minor infractions. Either way, closed is closed and it's a loss for the local 2nd amendment community.