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The GlockStore to Host Fourth Annual Open House Celebrating the Company’s Move to Nashville

Kaitlin Housler
Lenny Magill

Lenny Magill, founder and CEO of the GlockStore, said the store’s fourth annual open house event will be held this Saturday to celebrate the company’s move from San Diego, California, to the Volunteer State.

“Our open house is this Saturday at 10 a.m. This is our fourth year of celebrating the move from California to Nashville. We love Nashville. At the event this weekend, we’ll have two shooting competitions. We’ve got a lot of fun. Excellent prices on guns. Gun prices that you never see again. They’re super low. Of course, all of our parts and pieces that we manufacture here in Nashville are going to be on sale as well. We’ve got free ice cream. We’ve got food trucks. We’ve got the shooting competitions, which I said, which is a low light competition and a speed competition and we are going to be raffling off a full fledged Glock 17 custom gun,” Magill said on Wednesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.

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Glockstore.com Will Relocate HQ to Nashville

Chris Butler

Glockstore.com, which sells parts and accessories for Glock handguns will relocate its headquarters from California to Nashville. Glockstore.com founder and CEO Lenny Magill told The Tennessee Star Monday that he and other company officials plan to set up shop in Music City in the fall of 2019, roughly one year from now. The current headquarters is in San Diego. “We have 100 employees here in San Diego, and we will at some point have 100 people in Nashville as well,” Magill said. “Some of our employees will not move from San Diego. We have about 80 positions that we will fill in Nashville.” Magill said he and other company officials are making the move because they had to get away from California’s high-tax rates. “We looked at Texas. We looked at Atlanta in depth. Those were the areas we really looked at. We even thought about Nevada, but we chose Nashville for a couple of reasons. We looked at those areas because of the low taxes in those areas,” Magill said. “These are gun-friendly states, and we wanted to be a little more centrally located for shipping and handling. That is what Nashville really had going for it, as far…

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