{"id":2292,"date":"2013-05-13T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T00:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/05\/13\/stumpies-custom-guns\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:00","slug":"stumpies-custom-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2292","title":{"rendered":"Stumpies Custom Guns (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13603,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mlive.com\\\/news\\\/saginaw\\\/index.ssf\\\/2012\\\/12\\\/war_hero_brad_lang_of_alma_fac.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13604,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/whitman.syr.edu\\\/ebv&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/whitman.syr.edu\\\/ebv&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nEvery now and again, it helps to read a feel-good story involving guns. While this story starts out in tragedy, it has a good ending. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mlive.com\/news\/saginaw\/index.ssf\/2012\/12\/war_hero_brad_lang_of_alma_fac.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sgt. Brad Lang was a Marine Explosive Ordnance Detail Technician<\/a> serving in Sangin Province, Afghanistan when he lost both of his legs to an IED. He was in Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for 9 months. While there, he was roommates with fellow teammate and EOD technician Johnny Morris. Morris had lost a leg in another IED explosion a month earlier than Lang.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than feeling sorry for themselves, Lang and Morris made plans to go into business for themselves after they finished their rehab.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>And while they rehabilitated their injuries, the two friends began their post-military careers by starting Stumpies Custom Guns, Inc., a gunsmith shop in Jacksonville, North Carolina.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>\u201cMy wife came up with the idea for the name,\u201d Lang said. \u201cWe were in<br \/>\nour wheel chairs trying to get some fresh air and talking about<br \/>\nbusiness. We didn\u2019t want some federal job where we worked out butts off.<br \/>\n <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>\u201cIn Jacksonville there are 60,000 active-duty Marines who like<br \/>\nfirearms with no good gunsmiths around. We were sitting there talking<br \/>\nabout a name and my wife said, \u2018Stumpies, duh. You only have one good<br \/>\nleg between the two of you.\u2019\u201d<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"hthttp:\/\/www.stumpiescustomguns.com\/Default.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">They are now open for business in Jacksonville<\/a> and have their FFL. Prior to the Marine Corps, Morris had worked in a gun store in Alabama and Lang had taken training in machining and CNC programming. <\/p>\n<p>Their store motto is &#8220;We can&#8217;t run, but we can shoot.&#8221; With that kind of spirit, I don&#8217;t see how they can fail.<\/p>\n<p>\nH\/T Blackwater Tactical Weekly &#8211; original post was on Dec. 30, 2012<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: <\/b>Tonight on 60 Minutes, Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on a program that helps disabled veterans become entrepreneurs. Featured in this report was Sgt. Brad Lang of Stumpies Custom Guns. The <a href=\"http:\/\/whitman.syr.edu\/ebv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities<\/a> is a 6 month online training program followed by a 10-day intense on-campus class. It is an all expense paid program funded through grants from major corporations like Walmart and Pepsico. The program is headquartered at Syracuse University&#8217;s Whitman School of Management and includes seven other universities.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every now and again, it helps to read a feel-good story involving guns. 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