San Diego-based Glockstore.com pays $5.5M for building, eyes 2019 opening

An entity affiliated with San Diego-based Glockstore.com has acquired for $5.5 million an airport-area warehouse at which it will establish its new headquarters and both a retail showroom and a manufacturing operation.

A late 2019 opening is eyed.

Glockstore.com bills itself as the United States’ largest online retailer of Glock-specific OEM (original equipment manufacturer) parts and so-called aftermarket performance parts that allow users to customize their Glock handguns.

The address of the future Glockstore.com facility is 1930 Air Lane Drive. First Call Ambulance Service operates from the structure.

Lenny Magill, Glockstore.com founder and CEO, said the company chose Nashville because of no state income tax, a central location for shipping and distribution, a fast-improving international airport, a reasonable cost of living and Tennessee’s firearms-friendly laws and environment.

The 65,000-square-foot building sits on about 3.3 acres. The seller was an LLC represented by Dwaine Anderson, a broker with Nashville-based The Anderson Company.

Jim Spellman, managing partner of JPS Realty Partners, represented the Glockstore.com-affiliated buyer.

First Farmers Bank provided the loan for the purchase.



Magill said the retail showroom will feature — in addition to Glock handguns, parts, accessories, logo clothing and hats — several indoor shooting rooms that will allow for one-on-one instruction and the chance to shoot at multiple targets in multiple directions.

“It's much more dynamic and realistic than shooting down a single lane at a single target,” Magill said.

The manufacturing operation will consist of 12 CNC machines that make aftermarket performance parts for Glock handguns, he said.

Major renovations to the warehouse are planned, Magill said.

Of note, Glockstore.com provides custom-build services. It participates in Glock Inc.’s Blue Lable program (which provides discounts to uniformed law enforcement, military and first responders) and ships nationwide.

Magill said the Glockstore.com website was launched in 1995. The company grew from 12 employees to 70 employees between that date and 2015. In the early days of business, the company was based in a 15,500-square-foot building. It later acquired a 40,000-square-foot building to which it moved in early 2016. The business now employs more than 100 people.

“Frankly, once again, we are running out of space for our warehousing, assembly, shipping and handling, and manufacturing,” Magill said. “Hence, we started to look for another building but also realized that to enhance the true potential of the business we needed to expand out of the state of California.”

Magill said the company expects eventually to have 100-plus employees in the Nashville location. It will be hiring soon for office and accounting, customer service, shipping and receiving, stock room management, packaging and assembly, CNC machinist and operators, retail sales and management, firearm instructor and Glock-specific gunsmiths.

Once the headquarters is established here, the San Diego location will remain operational.

Glockstore.com is one of many U.S. dealers of Glock Inc. products and is not affiliated with that entity. Glock Inc.’s North American headquarters office is based in Smyrna, Georgia. Parent company Glock Ges.m.b.H. is headquartered in Deutsch-Wagram, Austria.





