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<blockquote data-quote="BallisticsGuy" data-source="post: 2054188" data-attributes="member: 96226"><p>I never owned one but I worked at one for a lot of years. Nowadays it's not really a viable business unless you've got something forcing people to come and visit. In California the gun shops basically have to grow in number just to deal with the ammo background checks. In other places they're dying off because of internet sales. The normal margin given on guns by the distributors and manufacturers when I was in the game was 18% which means the only way to keep the lights on is ammo, services and accessories. We'd put markups really high on those things just to keep the power bill paid. As a practical matter the amount of paperwork alone is hugely daunting and many many little tiny screw-ups can literally get you shut down or fined or both.</p><p></p><p>If you've no experience in the field, go to your local GS and ask them if you can volunteer to help them for the next year or two so you can learn the ropes and decide if you want to take your one whole life savings and turn it into one half of a life savings.</p><p></p><p>As far as traffic through the door based on political states... it was a little like porn. If the economy is bad, porn makes more money. If the economy is good, porn makes more money. If politics threatens guns, gun sales spike and discrimination about what gun to buy drops to near zero (any port in a storm right). When the political situation is not dire, sales continually rise but discrimination about what gun to buy skyrockets.</p><p></p><p>The above is based on >5 years working in a small California gun shop with daily sales of normally under $3000.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BallisticsGuy, post: 2054188, member: 96226"] I never owned one but I worked at one for a lot of years. Nowadays it's not really a viable business unless you've got something forcing people to come and visit. In California the gun shops basically have to grow in number just to deal with the ammo background checks. In other places they're dying off because of internet sales. The normal margin given on guns by the distributors and manufacturers when I was in the game was 18% which means the only way to keep the lights on is ammo, services and accessories. We'd put markups really high on those things just to keep the power bill paid. As a practical matter the amount of paperwork alone is hugely daunting and many many little tiny screw-ups can literally get you shut down or fined or both. If you've no experience in the field, go to your local GS and ask them if you can volunteer to help them for the next year or two so you can learn the ropes and decide if you want to take your one whole life savings and turn it into one half of a life savings. As far as traffic through the door based on political states... it was a little like porn. If the economy is bad, porn makes more money. If the economy is good, porn makes more money. If politics threatens guns, gun sales spike and discrimination about what gun to buy drops to near zero (any port in a storm right). When the political situation is not dire, sales continually rise but discrimination about what gun to buy skyrockets. The above is based on >5 years working in a small California gun shop with daily sales of normally under $3000. [/QUOTE]
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