The owner of a Kansas gun store and two employees of the Glock gun manufacturer have been charged with bribery and extortion for their gun deals and kickbacks.

A news release from U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom’s office said Wednesday that John Sullivan Ralph III, 40, of Olathe, owner of Global Guns and Hunting Inc., was indicted on federal charges of paying more than $1 million in bribes and kickbacks to executives of Glock as the result of an FBI investigation.

Ralph, doing business as OMB Guns, allegedly paid executives to give him preferential treatment over other firearm distributors. The Glock executives, in return, directed potential customers to OMB Guns, gave his company priority access to limited products, provided confidential company information to him and steered government contracts to him, including government agencies’ purchases of firearms and accessories.

Ralph and four co-defendants have been charged with charged with one count of conspiracy, 11 counts of wire fraud and 10 counts of money laundering.

His co-defendants, according to the news release, are:

� James "Craig" Dutton, 42, of Acworth, Ga., who was the assistant national sales manager for Glock. The American headquarters of Glock Inc. is in Smyrna, Ga.

� Lisa Delaine Dutton, 42, of Acworth, Ga., who was Craig Dutton’s wife, and who formed a company called Supreme Solutions LLC. She allegedly concealed payments of bribes and kickbacks.

� Welcome D. "Bo" Wood, Jr., 65, of Oviedo, Fla., who was the eastern regional manager for Glock.

� Paula Ann Wood, 63, of Oviedo, Fla., who was Bo Wood’s wife, and who formed a company called Tropical Marketing & Consulting LLC. She allegedly concealed payments of bribes and kickbacks.

Glock’s pistols are sold to contracted distributors, and demand frequently exceeds supply. According to the indictment, Glock has two sales channels. One supplies law enforcement agencies and is restricted based on geographical location. The other is commercial and isn’t restricted to any geographical location. Different labels were given to the different sales channels, blue label products for law enforcement, who also generally get lower prices because of bulk buys and bidding processes, and red label products for commercial sales.

The indictment said Wood and Dutton gave Ralph equipment and software that allowed him to convert labels from blue to red, allowing him to relabel at least 14,000 pistols that were intended to be sold in bulk to law enforcement agencies, and instead sell the pistols to commercial buyers, including Cabela’s.

From 2003 to 2009, Ralph allegedly sent and received 140 bribes and kickbacks through the U.S. Postal Service, and from 2009 to 2011, he allegedly used wire transfers to send 80 bribes and kickbacks. The indictment said the bribes went to defendants Lisa Dutton and Paula Wood, who then laundered the money.