Long shot, trying to remember the name of a 'smith from 20 + years ago

[VinnieBoomBah]

Hoping that crowdsourcing my memory will help solve this one! I'm trying to remember the name of the shop and the gunsmith that ran it back around 2000. What I remember is that the shop was on the west side, maybe up around the area of 19th ave and Peoria, the 'smiths name was Tom, he was a tall lanky fellow, looked short beard and moustache. Prior to running that shop he worked at Williams Gun Repair And Sales up in Sunnyslope in the 80's
Anyone have any ideas?

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[VinnieBoomBah]

Out of nowhere today my brain kicked out his name, Tom Rajec, and sadly he passed away back in 2016. There wasn't really anything important riding on this info, I worked with him at Williams Gun Repair and just had one of those "I wonder what happened to . . . " moments

 

[Azgunsmith]

Are you VinnieHidingBehindTheBulletTrap? LOL

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

Are you VinnieHidingBehindTheBulletTrap? LOL

My first thought was no, what's he talking about, but for then I got this very fuzzy incomplete memory of being behind a bullet trap and now I'm not so sure, maybe I am.

Can i buy a vowel?

 

[Azgunsmith]

My first thought was no, what's he talking about, but for then I got this very fuzzy incomplete memory of being behind a bullet trap and now I'm not so sure, maybe I am.

Can i buy a vowel?

Were you there the day Danny Williams came back from lunch while I was test firing? He started shooting at the bullet trap from the shop door? Struck the edge of the bullet trap fragging the bullet back at me? Jon.

 

[VinnieBoomBah]

OMG!! JON! YES! Danny was . . . well, he was something! I was (and still am!) a little surprised you didn't return the favor. Last time I talked to Tom he said you were off working on "some silly 45 pistol that recoiled into the grip or something" Always wondered if you helped developed the Kriss Vector

Am I remembering correctly that the other sales guy / Eazy Rider that carried a Silver High-Power was Marty?

 

[Azgunsmith]

OMG!! JON! YES! Danny was . . . well, he was something! I was (and still am!) a little surprised you didn't return the favor. Last time I talked to Tom he said you were off working on "some silly 45 pistol that recoiled into the grip or something" Always wondered if you helped developed the Kriss Vector

Am I remembering correctly that the other sales guy / Eazy Rider that carried a Silver High-Power was Marty?

Your right. Sleazy Riders name was Marty.
Went to a company who was designing pistol that look like this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenWeapons/comments/xcl6xd/here_we_have_very_rare_piranha_pistol_developed

I went into Weapons Works the gun shop Tom had. The last 9 months I went in on days off and did his repairs. The guy Tom had working there was less than a gunsmith. More like an armourer.