This week on TFB's Behind the Gun Podcast, I'm joined by a long-time friend and supporter of TFB, Martin from FALCO Holsters. Most of you here already know that FALCO Holsters is the Slovakian leather shop that's been putting American concealed carriers into some of the best-fitted leather holsters on the market. Today we get into the company’s origin story in falconry gloves, sewn by founder Ivan Kovac for forestry school students. Martin also walks us through how that turned into a full holster line built in the Štiavnica Mountains, and the company’s role in the unique gun culture in Slovakia, which has more in common with ours than you'd expect. Please give Martin a warm welcome to the program!
TFB Behind the Gun #235: Slovakian Gunleather w/ Martin of FALCO
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TFB Behind the Gun #235: Slovakian Gunleather w/ Martin of FALCO
Martin from FALCO Holsters joins TFB's Behind the Gun to talk about the company's 1989 founding in a small Slovakian garage, where it got its start making falconry gloves before growing into one of the most recognized custom holster makers in the world. We trace that history back to founder Ivan Kovac, a forestry teacher who started sewing gloves for his students' falconry classes, and talk about how the shop's home in the Štiavnica Mountains still shapes the way FALCO builds holsters today. Martin also gives us a first-hand look at gun culture in Slovakia, a country that spent decades under communist Czechoslovakia and landed on a system with more parallels to the US than most countries in the rather gun-unfriendly European Union.
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