Becoming Staccato: The Transformation From STI

Staccato's mission is to proudly serve those who protect and embody American freedoms. In pursuit of this mission, we've chased perfection and achieved excellence in the reliability, durability and shootability of our pistols, now approved for on or off duty carry by over 1,400 law enforcement agencies in just 5 years. Join us, as we sit down with Staccato CEO, Nathan Horvath, to hear the story of how a niche competition gun company known as STI transformed into Staccato-the makers of the 2011®-the Best Shooting Pistols in the World.
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[@rdrgear]

Whoever the marketing VP at Stacatto is. Man that person and their Team deserve a fat raise! Well done!

[@ericks9127]

I find it impossible for any American that loves his country too not love what staccato stands and strives for as a gun manufacturer. This company has given me a feeling of freedom with the purchase of both my Staccato P and c2 . There will be an xc in my future.

[@Rubeless]

The calling every cop a hero is a bit overkill

[@ericks9127]

@@Rubelessalways someone negative because they hate their own life

[@Darth_Smittious]

@@ericks9127always someone boot licking and proving cognitive dissonance.

[@toddb930]

ericks9127 -- sounds like you've had a good dose of koolaid.

[@ericks9127]

@@toddb930 call it what you want. I have never had a bad experience with staccato. If I ever had grab just one to save my life or others it’s a staccato. When going to the range for fun at least one of my staccato goes. They have earned their spot in my collection and views of the company.

[@RoninWarrior1776]

Amen brother! Over 50% of my agency runs staccatos. I was lucky to be one of the first and now over 90 percent of our team guys are running staccatos! Hands down best customer service and performance firearm.

[@Montblanc1986]

What you do for law enforcement won’t be forgotten and we greatly appreciate the customer service and support and the extra support offered. Thank you to everyone at Stacatto!!

[@highlife7241]

P and C2 are hands down my BEST handguns. Quality and reliability are top notch. Appreciate the unequivocal support of our HEROES. 🇺🇸

[@andyfin.8099]

I love staccato so much. Few of our guys bought the P with a department code. I ended up jumping on the bandwagon. Happy that I did, it’s an amazing gun that’s seen 1600 rounds so far with 0 failures

[@pcrealty]

Excellent Staccato vision and it is in fact a perfect handgun company. Thank you: CEO Nathan Horvath, you are a true leader in handgun manufacturing. I appreciate your service to our country!

[@Thebravemovement]

Love my Staccato P and I love how the company is proudly American 🇺🇸 🙏🏼

[@davidmonnette1578]

Great Pistols, great customer service… Great Company🤠🇺🇸

[@StayConnectedEV]

The best company in america. Great people, great guns AND SKILLED gunsmiths all being led by David Cupp

[@blitzlander3477]

I still have my STI international 5.56 and will always cherish it

[@ltlfamily]

Thanks for all ya'll do for us Veterans and First Responders. I'm proud to carry a Staccato!

[@rimfirejunkie7427]

All they do? Ordered a pistol Jan of 2017, not a word about it since. Ive sent emails, made calls and just kept getting brushed off, but email ads for the mags kept on showing up..... I own two STI frames. One is a widebody I spec'ed out and had a local smith build, the other a factory gun. The locally made gun runs like a top. The factory gun didnt make a whole box of ammo before it had to be sent back. At the time I was career LE as well. So, yeah. Im not risking a multi-thousand dollar purchase on a re-brand.

[@wrxified]

@@rimfirejunkie7427 I can’t help but call b.s. on this. You mean to tell me, you’ve had a pistol on order for 7 years, and have not received it? I’ve ordered 4 pistols from Staccato over the past 3 years. The longest wait I’ve encountered was 76 days start to finish. I ordered an XC on the 5th of January this month using their expeditor program and received it on the 21st. 16 days from order until the time I picked it up with my FFL. What did you order and what is their response? Did you actually pay for something? I’m scratching my head this comment.

[@rimfirejunkie7427]

@@wrxified Their rep came into my shop and I filled out a dealer-employee ( stocking dealer discount ) for a 5" gun. Wiley tapped away on his laptop, said it was submitted with my CC info. Weeks, months passed, and no response. I tried calling, no one would give me any kind of answer. I emailed. Nothing. Until one day, I started getting advertisements for magazines that fit to the gun they never sent. This was status quo as, I, a dealer, made multiple calls to STI over customer guns and got no answer, or was transferred to someone else in a perpetual loop. Thankfully STI never charged my cc, so I took that money and bought some TRPs and have never been happier. If they didnt want to sell a gun to me, they should have emailed or called. Instead, of keeping a potential future customer, they created a festering sore spot on someone who does hold a grudge and does expect business to be done with some form of ethics. Treat me well and I am a customer for life ( LaRue, Dillon, Springfield and many others ). Treat me poorly or act all elitist ( STI, Nighthawk ) and I will make you famous, for all the wrong reasons.

[@rimfirejunkie7427]

@@wrxified Further to add, my Lawnan 5.0 didnt make it through a single box of ammo before it was shipped back and the entire guts were replaced. The return letter said 'after repair we fired 250 rounds without issue.' Golly Gee, Beaver, let's just run its guts out before we send it back. I was so disenchanted with the pistol and overall STI experience I just tossed the Lawman into the safe, where it sits today, untouched.

[@renopelletier4952]

As a 20+ year veteran of the USAF, flying F-4s and F-15Es, I wish your people would treat veterans with more respect. I talked to one of your representatives at Centennial Gun Club and when I showed him my retired military ID his reaction said it all, move along! I have a few STIs, four in fact and I can't get myself past my experience!

[@hstone-kf7su]

Bro you’re AF, move along.

[@Garris4Me]

That is an awesome story. So thankful for the history and the update of the company!

[@TheGentlemanGunner]

Love this story... aside from my YT channel.... the business side of me resonates with this story and without saying it in this video... this was an incredible feat to accomplish. Cheers Staccato!

[@machinegunhund]

I appreciate every last one of you @ Staccato and for all you do.

[@westwest4545]

*America is the leading country in the area of ​​weapons! It has large arms factories, and of course reliable ones! I own a Colt 1911. 45 acp and a smith and wesson 38 revolver. We Greeks love firearms very much, and we try to copy the American style because it is comfortable, modern and efficient!! Be well my fellow Americans! Thank you also for the military cooperation. Greece and America have a strong cooperation!!! Good luck!*

[@Kevin55acp]

What a fabulous representation of a great company. The C2 was my first, followed by the P. I'm proud to represent a forward-thinking group of people, dedicated to quality, and customer service excellence. Bravo, Staccato...

[@bdh821]

Commendable video! I was probably one of the biggest sti haters as I had many many problems with the DVC Open.

[@GaryW-f2o]

Nate, you and your team did an outstanding job of building the Staccato brand and products into something really special. Looking forward to the future! GW

[@borntoworship777]

Best handgun period

[@dudewonderful7165]

I love this country, I love these guns, I love the CEO, I love the company, and I love the vision! Semper Fi and oohhhh mada f’innnn rahhh!!

[@compujames1]

I have 4 Staccato pistols and worked with them for a short term. Best class of people and the CEO is 100% best man to take this to next level and class act Man.

[@toddb930]

I loved STI. I still have a few of their pistols. They had incredible customer service during their growth phase. I think their downfall was to grow too big by introducing too many models and not having the time to prove them out before selling them. I don't know if Dave Skinner was responsible for the downfall but was likely involved.

[@Forged_8]

Love the video! Your pistols and customer service is the best in the business. Thank you for everything you've done

[@billtshudy3653]

XC coming in a few days, I am a little excited!

[@ProfessionalWeekender]

just your every day civilian here but I own three staccatos. great product.

[@MegaAz000009]

Well done..great ceo..just ordered staccato p..x series..

[@carlosloomis9308]

I loved STI handguns. You used to be able to buy them. A few years ago I wanted another one and my local gun shop told me he would have to order 5 to get me one. Since then I have Moved on to other platforms

[@Peter-dm2jf]

I really like the Staccato brand and the quality I now enjoy. The CEO totally correct with inconsistencies during the STI. If only you could maintain the quality while lowering the cost of those magazines. Any plans for a 10mm 2011?

[@LarryeWhite61]

The 1st lady shooter (Corinne Mosher) in the B-roll glad to see her. Hope she is doing well since the passing of her husband Mike a LOE.

[@GlockUser1982]

I can’t afford to purchase one upfront but if they ever had a reputable payment program I would sign up. I want that Staccato XL

[@xlwerner]

Financing is available at checkout :)

[@GlockUser1982]

@@xlwerner I didnt know i haven’t looked at the site probably a year because I can’t afford to straight purchase but thank you for letting me know

[@djntqd]

​@@xlwernerhow is it?? I've heard bad things about Credova

[@christianneedham3876]

In the past eight months, another 200 departments have passed the staccato for the arrange test so actually it’s up to 1600 not 1400 crazy

[@Fullmetal_Sensei]

Got to love hearing this story but let’s not forget about the amazing civilian market you created. Happy to be considered a friend of the company and to make content on what I believe is the best tool for most self defense situations and students.

[@jesuschrist-alphaomega]

My C2 is the best pistol I own. Thank you.

[@PeterCastle2A]

I love my Staccato P Heritage! Everyone who holds it is blown away. Keep doing what you're doing!

[@waynecastleman1363]

All The Way 💪🇺🇸

[@blaiseeltine9516]

great video, great company

[@BeefaloBart]

Love the product, just wish it was affordable. I still have an STI 1911 due to it just being a reliable tool. But the Staccato lineup is way out of the budget range of most people.

[@Justalittletotheright]

Love my new Staccato P, shoots like a dream. Quickly becoming my favorite. Might have to try the CS next for EDC.

[@guillermodvl]

This veteran will afford the XC someday. Airborne.

[@campodedemolicion]

👍🙏

[@miscochesdeslot]

As a Company, you have abandoned thousands of customers around the world, who according to their respective Laws cannot replace certain "fundamental parts" (such as the barrel, etc...) if they do not come from the same "brand". Miguel Ángel Soler Francia.

[@guy2234-v5r]

How is that their fault? Its an issue with your terrible country's laws, you can't blame them for a simple name change. Get better laws, either through voting or other more active resistance.

[@miscochesdeslot]

​@@guy2234-v5r It is not just a problem of conflict with the Laws, it is that they did not directly want to provide the product, specifically a 9x19 barrel "with front sight" on a plateau, for an STI Apeiro. And that is solely the company's fault. They directly decided to abandon and stop providing service to "all" STI brand products, with the justification that "we no longer make products for competition."

[@guy2234-v5r]

@miscochesdeslot Their position is totally fair, it's not "abandoning you" at all. You can't expect Staccato to keep spare island barrels around for a long discontinued model forever. Especially for things like island barrels, which have to be custom fitted and they might sell one a year, maybe even less. Your expectations are ridiculous. All 2011 shooters of any competition brand, custom or otherwise, should expect at some point a part will break that you can't just buy a drop in replacement for, and have a plan for getting a fitted replacement. Sounds like you failed to account for that.

[@miscochesdeslot]

​@@guy2234-v5r Ridiculous? The Ridiculous ones here are Staccato and you. Obviously I have not had to stop competing because of that, the only thing missing is that, and regarding foresight, of course I have not been surprised that a US Company leaves customers from another country stranded. You are convinced that the world ends at your borders.

[@GrapeJoose]

Well said ​@@guy2234-v5r

[@active4delta]

Take my money. Thank you.

[@MenOfArmz]

Can David Cun reassess my heritage P? 😂It's scheduled a 2nd trip back to Texas

[@Benz2533]

I still wish that I get a chance to get the STI DVC Tactical 9mm before Staccato disband the production line entirely. I also feel sad that I enter the gun world abit too late.

[@AlbertCastro-l6l]

When will Staccato make it to California roster. I’m not law enforcement, but i would like to be able to buy one!

[@alphapyro360]

definitely the best pistol ive ever shot. the xc is insane

[@fmike15]

funny you see so many used ones for sale

[@gvibe3056]

🔥🔥🔥

[@modernsoul6590]

They took the 2011 mainstream. So many are producing them. Big gun companies like Springfield Armory, small niche companies and now Turkish imports. Great work Staccato.

[@chrisb9478]

I had 2 StI’s over the years, great guns.

[@chltmdwp]

Come on, make a double stacked 45 acp!

[@kde71450]

Never owned one. At the Texas International Gun Festival (Best Of the West range). The STI guys were fantastic. They let handle and shoot a few of their models, then offered me a hat and a competition long sleeved shirt, even though they knew their firearms were well out of my price range!

[@DoD890]

I recently received my C2. Very nice. Happy to support a business 30 minutes from me.

[@dmack346]

Great video. Thanks for sharing.

[@ericks9127]

In a world of growing ports that would be an amazing service from factory.

[@bannoneldridge9269]

I can’t understand why you don’t make the EDGE anymore. It would be like buying FORD and not making the F150 anymore. Competition Shooters are why STI existed and it feels like Staccato came in and said, this is not where the money is really at, it’s too niche. Let’s go get those .gov contracts. PS: The DVC Tactical in 9mm is one of the best do all pistols ever created. Bring it back.

[@wrxified]

@bannoneldridge9269 “it feels like Staccato came in and said, this is not where the money is really at, it's too niche. Let's go get those •gov contracts.” Did it’s not “like” they said that. They did say that. And if a company is struggling with a business model, you don’t keep doing what you’re doing and expect to miraculously see different results. You have to change. He’s not making it up, STI was on the brink of bankruptcy.

[@ericks9127]

❤❤❤

[@ttran626]

Best gun I’ve ever owned. Staccato Heritage P

[@retiredslo]

It would be nice if us "Camifornia" residents could get one of these without mortgaging our house.

[@paulh6101]

Do yall still service the older sti 2011 firearms?

[@carlossantiago6690]

They do! I took my DVC Limited and they fix my trigger no questions ask! Great company amazing gun.

[@Blebobeep7492]

Yay Staccato. Arming tyrants and denying the 2A to all Californians.

[@MexicanNinja82]

When are you guys going to fix your magazine from hitting the ejector?

[@charleshopkins2571]

That's what the extended base pads are for that ship with pistol. TO prevent the over insertion if you run base pads like the TTI or Atlas base pads, you have to be careful and not slam the mags in the Maxwell when you reload on slide lock. You shouldn't be letting it run to empty anyways. I can usually feel when my 2011 I close to empty. you can tell by the weight when shooting

[@MexicanNinja82]

@@charleshopkins2571 no one should have to buy aftermarket accessories to fix something that the factory should fix. Have you seen officer involved shooting, how many of them have time to conduct a tac reload? This gun is marketed to LEOs, it should be capable of handling real world situations and not just competition.

[@guy2234-v5r]

That's just an inherent part of the design of 1911s and 2011s. Nothing to be "fixed" about it except train to correct your bad habits if this happens to you enough to break it. Use the correct basepads if you need to reload from slide lock.

[@MexicanNinja82]

@@guy2234-v5r lol bad habit, that’s a lot of words for you to tell us you don’t know what you’re talking about. You could just say “I don’t know what I’m talking” in a lot fewer words. Please tell us more on how you have no clue what you’re talking about, I’m off this weekend, I have the time.

[@guy2234-v5r]

​@@MexicanNinja82 Says the guy who can't use his gun correctly and is pleading for someone to give him a workaround. I'm the guy with 60k + rounds in comps and various training through my 2011s, never had an issue at all with the ejector because I use my guns correctly and know what I am doing. You must be the other guy. You have the tools to use your gun properly and avoid breaking it by misuse, and you instead whine and want someone to put training wheels on your firearms to help you with your training issue. Learn to use your tools before whining to your betters.

[@adrianc.demery8872]

🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@bloodymotivationtv5926]

Nice gun but it's a shame you don't hit the european market... Everybody I know want a staccato but nobody want to spend 5.5K euros for a standard P model ... So everybody go bul armory

[@AngelSilverFourtySeven]

👍🏼🥃🇺🇸

[@venomgt7299]

I would love staccato if they made a 2011 chambered in 45acp. I don't believe in 9mm so it doesnt work for me. Or if Staccato is anti 45acp how about 10mm? 🙏

[@peterk814]

This is a corporate raider masquerading as a nice guy.

[@2008mastif]

Please elaborate

[@toddb930]

Peter -- exactly!!

[@peterk814]

@@2008mastifthis ceo basically was looking for distressed companies to buy on the cheap and rebrand. He disguised it under the ploy of helping the poor company out.

[@rsxr22]

@@2008mastifidk about what that guy means but I call bs on his sentiment towards STI. Hes right that STI was built on comp shooters but they also went in and said that they only gave a shit about LE/MIL. They didn’t care about the comp market. They went through the ringer over this when they did it

[@rikt1541]

freedom to unionize?

[@rikt1541]

does it include freedom of sexual orientation? freedom not to be told what to do with your own body?

[@BlackDogOriginal]

Overpriced

[@felixdewinter3484]

This guy sounds like such a bootlickers for cops. Another reason not to buy these guns.

[@gregm7989]

37 days since my order with “fast track” and website still says Awaiting Fulfillment. Excited but bummed it’s not here yet.