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by ELB
Sat Sep 08, 2007 8:54 pm
Forum: General Gun, Shooting & Equipment Discussion
Topic: opening new gun shop
Replies: 18
Views: 2609

OK, my dream gunstore,

*** Ideally, it would be co-located with a range that has a wide selection of rental guns, so you could try stuff out
- Ditto on polite friendly knowledgable but not overbearing staff, of course
- Wide selection of firearms is always good!
- Ditto on ammo - I have been surprised/annoyed that I seldom see Cor-Bon ammo in my area, and when I do, it's only a couple calibers. Maybe it doesn't sell in retail stores well enough, but grrr.
*** Some kind of holster/belt rental/tryout plan, whereby there's a big stack of somewhat used holsters, you plunk down some bucks or a credit card number, and head out with your holster for a week. If you like it and don't mind it being used, you just keep it and the store keeps your money or charges the card. If you like it, but want a new one, bring the old one back, apply the deposit to a new one, and pay the diff. If you don't like it, bring it back and swap it for another "rental" holster. Wash, rinse, repeat.

There's a bunch of other stuff I could dream up, but this is probably enough. I would imagine starting up a gunstore with any kind of decent selection takes an enormous amount of cash in order to have enough inventory, and is a driver in pricing firearms and such. Plus you have various sorts of federal, state, and city bureaucracies coming up with all kinds of ways to make it harder for you to do business. Good luck you you and best wishes.

elb

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