Firearms Industry Reps: South Dakota Wants YOU!

By Robert Farago

Press release from The South Dakota Governor’s Office of Economic Development:

When Irving Stone III, owner of Bar-Sto Precision Machine in Sturgis, South Dakota, is asked about his business, he can’t help but reminisce about his parents. That’s because long before Stone was born, his dad, Irving Stone II, had a passion for machining. When his parents married, his mother, Barbara, was introduced to the art of machining. Before long, Irv and Barbara opened their first machine shop in Burbank, Calif., in the early 1950s, calling it Bar-Sto Precision . . .

Over the next several years, the elder Stone began doing experimental work for the aerospace industry in southern California. But when the industry fell apart in the 1960s, his work was put on hold and he needed to find something to fill his spare time.

He wound up at a shooting tournament and discovered he could easily make many of the parts and pieces to the barrels the machinists were welding at the tournament.

“My father had leftover material in his shop from his work in the aerospace industry. The material was actually the hydraulic units for the thruster adjusters used for the Apollo moon rockets. He machined the …Read the Rest

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