Galco is the largest leather holster maker in the United States, and has roughly 200 employees working in their 80,000 square-foot facility. In addition to doing leather holsters, they have injection molding machines, they make Kydex holsters, and they even have their own foundry, where they make all the brass hardware for their belts. Each stitch is independent, so if you pull one stitch it will not unravel.
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