Northern Tool + Equipment Adds Gun Gear, Will Hardware Stores Return to the Firearms Fold?

By Dean Weingarten

Gun accessories are mostly sold by companies that are either firearms or sports oriented. In the same way that the mainstream media has shunned firearms related advertising – a sore point for TTAG’s publisher – you don’t find too many mainstream manufacturers expanding their product line into the firearms fold. While the media ad ban has yet to be broken, the expanding firearms market has lured in some major players from outside the traditional sphere. Enter Northern Tool + Equipment Company . . .

Since 1981, the family owned and operated Northern Tool + Equipment has been an industry leader for value-priced generators, pressure washers and 40k other hardware style products. Many of their products are made in China, but they also support American manufacturers, some made in their own 250,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Faribault, Minn.. And now the company is including firearms accessories in its product line.

Northern Tool has several items in their lineup aimed at guns used as self defense tools, including the new Tee Shirt holster shown above. (The pistol looks to be a Bersa .380.) They’re singing our song. From Their “Packing Tee page”:

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Source:: Truth About Guns