TL;DR at bottom. I used to work for a major distributor (DSG Arms/Tradesmen) for 5 years plus specializing in law enforcement sales. Here are my thoughts on what is happening at DS.

I used to work at DSG Arms/Tradesmen. I used to handle law enforcement sales for them and helped build that side of the business. When I left they were selling 50 million worth of products a year. This is what I think is going on based off my experiences.<br><br>Their CEO was polite, but self-absorbed and egotistical man. He had his fingers in too many cookie jars. He managed Trade exchanges, DSG Arms, Tradesmen (WW), and Instock. He had his hands in other ventures too. He also had several silent partners throughout all the ventures. His attitude was everything gets managed the same, because I am the CEO. We used to get rebuked for asking for help with sales or order issues. His answer was always a very stern, "You handle it. I'm busy."<br><br>This is my reasoning for why they are having issues. His hands were too deep in all his other ventures to run a distribution house appropriately. We were always having issues with inventory discrepancies and communication within the company. RTS's (return to stock) would sometimes take months. We, as sales people, would handle the sales, send them to the order department, and if there was an issue with the order it would get bounced back to us to handle. A lot of orders fell through the cracks that way. <br><br>I believe all the ventures are collapsing around him. Debt is becoming a bigger, unmanageable issue, and no one is buying him out (I have no inside information for this, just speculation). What I think is happening is all the money was being funneled into DSG Arms. If they are collapsing, then the money needs to be moved to give the appearance of solvency. If money is moved from Tradesmen to DSG than Tradesmen is going to have financial issues. If they believe DSG can still be saved, they will shift money around until they can figure out what to do.<br><br>I saw a comment in a different post that a former employee made. It went something along the lines, "We used to beg for a new warehouse for years and money to hire more employees." I agree with this, because we did. The warehouse was in disrepair. I still remember a time when we were out of stock of magpul m4 mags for months. This happened in 2014 at the height of magpul's popularity, and we were a platinum dealer at the time, we couldn't get stock for months. We used to just tell customers magpul was out of stock, when in reality we had orders placed and magpul was still making them. The CEO handled all that communication. After months, magpul finally released all the orders we had placed and we received a massive influx of inventory. This made our internal inventory system go haywire. Inventory discrepancies happen, but no one was trained to handle them. Since no one was trained on how to handle them properly, and communication between departments was abysmal, the issues just got worse.<br><br>As for the employees, I'm very sorry for you. A lot of the people that still work there are those I befriended while working there. We all felt like a big happy family (minus the CEO). I hope you all can find a place to call home. Some of the employees were there for over 6 years, and I'm not sure where you will be able to go to match what you were making.<br><br>TL;DR; CEO is greedy. CEO does not know how to run a distribution house.