Andy screwed up and I am sure he would be the first to admit it. That said, I doubt that he will be back by himself. He might have a better chance going to work for another shop and having them handle the money and business end. He has burned too many people to get much business for a long time under his own name.
Sad fact is that he did good work and his abilities will be missed, but no one is going to send him more guns and money without some real solid assurances that the work will be done and the guns returned.
I just hope he gets his life back to geather. People seem to enjoy seeing others fall from grace and figure that they would have done a better job given the same circumstances. I honestly do not know what happened beyond rumors and tidbits from other post but when your life falls apart sometimes you just get caught up in the free fall and see now way out. More than one person has had a business fail and tried to keep it going by doing things that they never would have done under better circumstances. Ever rob Peter to pay Paul?
Ask a person who embezzeled money and they almost always intended to pay it right back, but the number got too large and they just could not stop untill they got caught. I had a lady working for me who had been with us for 15 years that did it. Family problems forced her into "borrowing money" and it just went on till she got caught. Ended up over two years time being a Best gun money. I ended up paying taxes on the money she stole.
She was like family and I did not want her or her kids to have the shame in a small town that she would have suffered from an arrest and conviction. It was like a lot of other cases just like it, it was kept quiet. She still works for me and will pay the money back if she lives another 125 years but her duties are different and she no longer handles the money.
In the end I decided that the money was not the important thing it was 15 years of working togeather. Some will say that I am a fool and should have had her arrested then tried to get my money back from her. Why? If she had any money to get, she never would have been in this situation in the first place.
Maybe Andy will get another chance. If so I will use him again onlyu if I am positive that this event he just went through can not happen again. Burn me once shame on you, burn me twice shame on me.
