In March 2020, The Firearms News traveled all the way from the Mid West to talk to Cholly and hear his story! Click "SEE MORE" to watch the videos they captured!

What today is arguably the largest dealer in surplus war material in the country, Sarco (an acronym for Steen Armament Research Company), Inc., of Easton, Pennsylvania, actually began quite humbly in the attic of a small apartment. Charles "Cholly" Steen, the company's founder, recalls his next major expansion came by moving into a barn some years later, and then into his first store, all in the anti-gun state of New Jersey.