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FFL bites the dust!.....................
owen219
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My favorite local FFL dealer has closed his business. He was a small dealer but it all finally wore him down. He could not get ammo and guns to sell. He said he was tired of begging his suppliers to no avail. Apparently Obamma won. I did my best to support him. It was sad to see his shelves go bare over time. He is a young vet with family. His wife is a registered nurse so he will survive but not in the gun business. It is so sad here in Ohio. Do you see others closing down in your areas?
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He closed down with no notice. Apparently, he had some guns on consignment and he took those as well.
There was one here that had WAY too much square footage for what he had. We are talking a store the size of a grocery store. He had one room about the size of a McDonald's dining area for gun. Another room the same size for some hunting equipment. He could have opened a skating rink in the open space.
He closed down with no notice. Apparently, he had some guns on consignment and he took those as well.
Rot Row!
My favorite local FFL dealer has closed his business. He was a small dealer but it all finally wore him down. He could not get ammo and guns to sell. He said he was tired of begging his suppliers to no avail. Apparently Obamma won. I did my best to support him. It was sad to see his shelves go bare over time. He is a young vet with family. His wife is a registered nurse so he will survive but not in the gun business. It is so sad here in Ohio. Do you see others closing down in your areas?
Weren't Obama, was gun owners hoarding and gouging and screwing each other over. Shameful behavior, even if it is a normal part of "Capitalism" it sure as hell ain't neighborly.
Have seen a couple of local shops close, and a couple expand. Had to change the FFL I use for transfers twice now.
The one I'm most sorry to hear of happened since I left Tucson. Jensen's Custom Ammunition was a great place, I bought my first gun there long ago. Used to drop in just to browse, see what old gun or accessory I could sucker myself into a "Darn I really need one of these" moments. I've heard the original owner passed away and the family tried to run it a while, but made a mess of it.
Heck of a shame.
How he stays in business I will never know. But when he is gone, I'll go and get the new owners signed up...
The young guy who sort of "took over" the vacant territory I left, tried to make a go of it in town(where he had "police coverage") but lost his shirt in a year due to the cost of having a store in town.
I prefer to shop local (besides the fact that Bass Pro is over an hour away and we currently have no Cabelas or Gander. Dicks is just that) but I have 2 shops that I go to not 200 yds apart. I like the range much better at one, but their prices are so much higher, I don't think I have bought anything but targets and rangetime there. The other one usually has what I need in reloading components and I pay a little more than what I could get it for online, but no HazMat and no shipping. There are one or 2 shops that I just don't go to because the owners think GunBroker is their competition. I've tried multiple times to explain to them how we are really their best resource, but this is a guy that still has one of this as his credit card machine...
How he stays in business I will never know. But when he is gone, I'll go and get the new owners signed up...
I'm with you there, Capt!
When I was selling on GB for the gun shop I worked for, I always told people who asked that any gun shop that doesn't use GB, at least for getting rid of used inventory, is doing themselves more harm than good.
There is generally little local interest in used firearms that are brought in on trade or straight sale, otherwise they wouldn't be in the shop in the first place. If you don't put those used guns on GunBroker, you're asking for a lot of money invested in stagnant inventory collecting dust on the shelves. I'm no expert in running a business, but I know that if you have inventory that sits around long enough to collect dust, you're losing money on it.