The store "does about $1 million worth of business annually", a figure which was higher before The NYPD opened an internal firearms bureau.

[2] The company used to own a gun factory in Brooklyn, the only one in the city, which made Colt M1911 pistols and reproductions of American Civil War-era Henry rifles.

Although many of its customers are in law enforcement, the company was near the top of a list of sellers whose guns were linked to New York City crimes in a 2003 report by a Columbia University researcher using data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

[1] A 2007 Village Voice article raised questions about the store's sales to United Nations diplomats from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The shop's Centre Market Street location was seen in the 1957 television series Decoy, appearing in the first season, episode four, titled "To Trap a Thief".