Circle Star Firearms

How It All Started The Circle Star Family Sitting around Jake Cawthons family coffee table, a dream was born. A dream founded not only on a love of shooting sports, but from the love of friendship, community, and having fun. The founder, Jake Cawthon, was an active-duty Texas Game Warden when he decided to embark on obtaining his Federal Firearms L... icense in 2013. Son of a Texas Ranger, Jake was raised in a law enforcement and outdoors culture that made him passionate about firearms and the sporting goods industry. As he transitioned from Game Warden to a local Grimes County Police Officer in 2016, he decided to open up a small part-time shop on the side of his garage in Anderson, Texas that became the birthplace of Circle Star Firearms. On the opening day of Circle Star, Jake met an enthused outdoorsman named Jason Westmoreland. They quickly connected over their shared love of hunting and firearms soon becoming best friends and business partners. Jason coming from a business management and distribution background, he immediately saw the potential that the two could have together it was a match made in heaven. With Jason onboard, it was time to find a larger location and move to full-time hours. Over the next few years, the business grew into a well-regarded firearms store that had a reputation for being fun, honest, and focused on the needs of its customers. Jake and Jason's core values were simple; no one who came into Circle Star left a stranger, and no one was ever dismissed because of age, gender, or a lack of firearm knowledge. It is a huge honor to both men to also gain the trust of someone to help them find exactly what they were looking for, even if they weren't always sure of what that was when they walked in. With the business growing and paperwork becoming more involved by the day, the need for a third person to run their operation soon became apparent. The needed to find someone who was as passionate about managing books as they were about the outdoors, this was hard to find. In Jake and Jason's ...Read More