Here is the scoop, when the range was K2 it started out decent. They had a good crew of guys working in there who had good customer service and were knowledgeable. The owner and the manager at the time were good guys as well. Just to make things clear there was an old man who was the owners father and claimed to be the owner, nothing was further from the truth. He was a nuisance, and a danger to the customers with his loaded pistol.
However, the owner in my opinion and judging by what was said to us on a daily basis was, he was in over his head on the money spent to bring that range up to speed after foothills shooting center was bought out, roughly (1.8 million). Then the manager quit (or got fired, I don't remember) because he was telling the customers lies about what we could provide as product when we were not even set up as dealers with these companies and the owner tried to do the right thing and take care of the customers and ended up having to become stocking dealers with a lot of these companies that require large minimum orders. Because of this I believe this act of trying to take care of the customer used up any extra money to promote K2.
The owner then hired a new manager (a female), and this was the beginning of the end. She supposedly managed the store by day and taught martial arts by night in the same location. She is one of the reasons K2 ultimately failed and the crew quit, left or got fired because of her abrasive personality and lack of knowledge when it came to firearms. Those who had exposure to her would know. K2 ended up having the wrong type of firearms for sale (mostly hunting rifles) and did not have enough of the evil black rifle flavor due to the old manager ordering what ever he wanted and not thinking about the business as a whole. In addition, the first manager, after being fired (or quitting) disappeared with some of the inventory and BATFE was called to have an audit done because the FFL was handled poorly when it came to keeping records & firearms came up missing.
This brings us to Green Mountain Family Shooting Center. The previous owner of K2 closed the business and left to pursue other endeavors. the owners Father however knew of a wealthy individual that he claimed was a personal friend and talked that individual into buying the range. Unfortunately, this person who bought the range outright from the bank trusted the former K2 owners father and the people that they hired, which were previous customers of K2, to run just the range since they did not posses an FFL.
The previous owners father claimed he was the owner of GMFSC and when the person who purchased the range found out he was making these claims, he had to be forcibly removed from the premises by Lakewood P.D. The idiots that were running the range were stealing from the owner who purchased GMFSC and had no experience or knowledge on how to treat customers, run a safe range, or even shoot. I am speaking from personal experience with these employees, and had a less than favorable time when I tried to go and shoot when it was GMFSC. Because of the employees of GMFSC and their actions which the owner was unaware of until recently, it was shut down, sold and bought by Blue Core Shooting Center.
This brings me to my point, I went in there today and talked with the new owners running the range. These guys are the real deal and are who they say they are. They are quiet professionals, they are courteous and know what they are doing. Lets give these guy's a clean slate and give them our business now that we know the history of K2 & GMFSC and why these particular business before them failed.
This is the inside scoop, I left out names on purpose, those who were customers at K2 know. And as for the employees at GMFSC, there names are not worth remembering.
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