r/canadaguns • u/OnYourShield123 • Oct 04 '24

Sterling arms and Shooting Edge

With the news of The Shooting Edge closing doors, does anyone have any information or knowledge as to how this affect Sterling Arms operation in the future. Specifically the release of the r18 mk3 as well as replacement parts for the r18 mk2?

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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '24

Covered on cgn by the shitbag owner himself, no won’t affect anything.

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u/AlbertaNumba1 Oct 04 '24

What is the controversy with JR? Like pre Shooting edge closing down

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u/EinGuy Because Canada Oct 04 '24

To copy a comment of mine from a different thread:

So JR (James R) Cox, James Baschynsky, and Marcus Furrer all used to own The Shooting Edge together (along with other silent and smaller investors). JR essentially fired his two partners (James B and Marcus), tried to not pay them out, and ended up having to pay them in inventory (guns) after a multi year legal battle. Which was sorta okay as James B and Marcus went on to open the Calgary Shooting Centre. I'm sure they would have preferred cash... but...

They have a long standing, bitter rivalry between them. JR is especially a spiteful person. He has personally tried to screw me over, over what is essentially nothing, with something he himself agreed to. Petty dumb shit.

The entire Canadian firearms industry is like this. Petty people, holding Petty grudges against each other. Every store hates some other store for some reason or another.

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u/[deleted] Oct 05 '24

Just honestly wondering. How do you define “petty” here as it relates to disputes in terms of how much was at stake and how much was lost?

Especially on the continuum between other related adjectives one can use to describe how a person dealt with a dispute from “weak/spineless” on one end, “principled/driven” in the middle and “belligerent/irrational” on the other extreme?

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u/EinGuy Because Canada Oct 05 '24

I have so many stories.

When JR heard the name of the new range (Calgary Shooting centre), he immediately parked www.calgaryshootingcentre.com and made it redirect to www.theshootingedge.com

Yeah, silly of CSC to not park the domain, but jacking it is just... Petty.