Owners Derrick and Melissa Turner
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MILITARY VETERAN DERRICK BUY PERSONAL VEHICLES IS THE NEW OWNER OF BARE AT GOVERNMENT PRICING graduating from Pendleton Heights High School and served for six years.
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When Derrick Turner assumed ownership of Noblesville-based firearm business Bare Arms LLC in late 2018, he immediately began to transform the shop’s culture and customer experiences.
“Both my grandfathers were in the military, and I had one uncle in the Marine Corps and another uncle in the Navy,” Turner says. “I wasn’t too into the college thing, so after high school I decided it would be best for me to join.” Turner was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas and Camp Pendleton in southern California for much of his time in the military and finished his service in Quantico, Virginia. After finishing active duty Turner served as a police officer in Virginia for six years, four of which he spent on a full-time SWAT team as leader of the team’s sniper unit.
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“I was in the right place at the right time, with a lot of great older guys that were willing to teach me,” Turner says. “Having a wife that was willing to play along so that I could go and do all the training, and be away from home, was important.” After resigning from the police force in 2017 and beginning contract work for the Department of State overseas as a sniper, Turner and his wife Melissa, also a Pendleton native and Pendleton Heights High School grad, decided to relocate back home to Indiana to be closer to family.
(317) 399-9069 | HELLOKAHLO.COM A military veteran and former contract sniper, Turner values the importance of listening to each and every customer to determine their specific needs and arriving at the most fitting products for that customer based on those needs.
“The original plan was to move back home, continue contract work for two years and then join the Indiana State Police working for one of their SWAT teams,” Turner says. “While I was overseas, the opportunity to buy Bare Arms came up, and my wife was a little tired of being a single parent for four kids and we jumped at the opportunity. The previous owner and I had a mutual acquaintance, and they knew I was looking for something to get me out of contract work.”
00 PLEASANT STREET | NOBLESVILLE, IN 46060 “We’ve tried to help customers by really listening to them, instead of telling them what direction they should go without any information,” Turner says. Originally from Pendleton, Turner joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 2006 after
During his time with the police force, Turner completed five law enforcement sniper courses in Virginia and Maryland. He’s quick to give credit for his knowledge of firearms and proper firearm techniques to his superiors in the military and police force, as well as his instructors at the various sniper schools he attended. 18 / NOBLESVILLE MAGAZINE / MAY 2020 / atNoblesville.com
Turner officially took over as owner of the
