{"id":8351,"date":"2011-01-31T14:05:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/?p=8351"},"modified":"2011-01-31T14:05:33","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T20:05:33","slug":"specialty-sports-supply-honored-as-2010-ruger-retailer-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/specialty-sports-supply-honored-as-2010-ruger-retailer-of-the-year\/8351\/","title":{"rendered":"Specialty Sports &#038; Supply Honored as 2010 Ruger Retailer of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8352\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ruger-SpecialtySports.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8352\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8352\" title=\"ruger-SpecialtySports\" src=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ruger-SpecialtySports-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ruger-SpecialtySports-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ruger-SpecialtySports.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer with Kim and Jeff Lepp.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sturm, Ruger  &amp; Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR), is pleased to announce that Specialty Sports  &amp; Supply of Colorado Springs, CO has been named the 2010 Ruger\u00ae Retailer of  the Year. Owners Jeff and Kim Lepp were honored at the 2011 SHOT Show with an  engraved Mark III\u2122 pistol to recognize their support for Ruger and achievements  in the retail firearms industry.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is only the  second Ruger Retailer of the Year award ever presented, and we are very excited  to present it to Specialty Sports &amp; Supply,&#8221; said Ruger President and CEO  Mike Fifer. &#8220;We appreciate the strong commitment that Jeff and Kim Lepp have  given to Ruger over the years, providing our company with year-round support of  our entire product line. Their innovative and highly successful in-store  promotional events set them apart in this industry, providing their customers  with fantastic product selection and value. We hope this award will inspire  other retailers to promote Ruger using innovative thinking and creative  approaches like we have seen from Specialty Sports &amp; Supply,&#8221; Fifer  continued.<\/p>\n<p>Specialty Sports  &amp; Supply is the largest independent firearms retailer in Colorado. This  impressive establishment boasts over 4,500 firearms in stock, including the full  line of Ruger pistols, rifles, revolvers and shotguns. Jeff and Kim Lepp have  been in operation for 16 years and consistently have worked closely with Ruger.  They have hosted a popular annual Ruger promotion for the past three years,  bringing Ruger President and CEO Mike Fifer out to the event to engage  customers. Ruger is proud to honor this first-class firearms retailer with the  2010 Ruger Retailer of the Year Award.<\/p>\n<p>For more  information on the extensive line of Ruger firearms, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.Ruger.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.Ruger.com<\/a>.<br \/>\nFor  more information on Specialty Sports &amp; Supply, <a title=\"http:\/\/www.specialtysportsandsupply.com\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.specialtysportsandsupply.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.SpecialtySportsAndSupply.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sturm, Ruger &amp; Company, Inc. (NYSE: RGR), is pleased to announce that Specialty Sports &amp; Supply of Colorado Springs, CO has been named the 2010 Ruger\u00ae Retailer of the Year. Owners Jeff and Kim Lepp were honored at the 2011 SHOT Show with an engraved Mark III\u2122 pistol to recognize their support for Ruger and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[186,1442,1441],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-ruger-firearms","tag-ruger-retailer-of-the-year","tag-specialty-sports-supply"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}