My name is Tom Hanson. Since 1976 I have worked as a gunsmith, designer, and machinist. In 1976 I graduated from The Colorado School of Trades in Lakewood, Colorado. After completing my training in Colorado, I worked for a few years as a gunsmith in Fargo, North Dakota in a custom gun shop as a factory warranty gunsmith for Browning, Colt, Remington, Harrington and Richardson and Winchester, until heading east to work as a gunsmith for George Numrich Jr., owner of Numrich Arms in the Hudson Valley of New York state. Early in my employment there, George started accepting my designs for products and replacement parts. In 1980 I opened a home machine shop to produce, as a subcontractor, some of the parts and products they sell.