Contemplating an idea: Opening a new range/gunshop

[Kodiak]

I would not be so sanguine about the city Gov't not being able to stop you. Without major capital behind you stopping you is as simple as delaying your permits and inspections until you run out of cash. Philly is so incompetent you wouldn't even know if it was purposeful infringement or plain stupidity.

Im betting on stupidity...maybe they wont even notice.

[andrewjs18]

See thats just it...Philly needs a good shop/range in the NE. Philidelphians like to shoot you know...

I was at Classic the other weekend and it was mobbed on fathers day...and the people werent even there to shoot...they were shopping.

yeah..they like to shoot at each other...just saying.

and yes...Classic is always busy....I only been there 2X and it's been wicked busy both times...


ps-do PAFOA folks get discounts? =P

[Willie D]

Aside from the current Obama bump, I would not say firearms are a growth industry.

Prior to this craziness I heard the guys at Firing Line joke about how little money there was in the business. Granted, that is one particular store that could be run a hell of a lot better, but there is probably something to what they said.

Your store would have to be better than SPAG from day one to get any traction at all.


Others have pointed out some of the costs, another thing would be to line up distributors. A dirty secret in niche retail is that distributors often won't give you the time of day because their current, high volume clients will threaten to cut business if the distributor deals with the new guy in the area. e.g. If you can't promise to buy 20 Glocks a month, Glock (or their middleman?) might not want to risk pissing off their long running, reliable partners.



If you were going to open a store, I'd recommend doing so in Delco, where you could be nearly the only game in town, now that a lot of older stores have closed.

[Kodiak]

ps-do PAFOA folks get discounts? =P

I dont know...its hard to distinguish from all the negative members and the ones who support the idea.

[Kodiak]

Your store would have to be better than SPAG from day one to get any traction at all.

FWIW I rarely goto SPAG...I know thats just me but Im sure there are others who dont.

If you were going to open a store, I'd recommend doing so in Delco, where you could be nearly the only game in town, now that a lot of older stores have closed.

Ive been looking for places other then Philly....so Im not dead set on opening one here.....but that dosent mean ive given up that option.

[Warpt762x39]

I dont know...its hard to distinguish from all the negative members and the ones who support the idea.

As a valued employee I hope that I get a discount of some sort

[Kodiak]

As a valued employee I hope that I get a discount of some sort

I was thinking right outside the city....within feet of the line LOL....sorta like bars outside dry counties or porn shops.

[CHEMICAL]

I was thinking right outside the city....within feet of the line LOL....sorta like bars outside dry counties or porn shops.

either that or find a building that is grandfathered in. god i love that stipulation in Philly. when i lived there a friend of mine was trying to open a tattoo shop. he found a building that used to be a tattoo shop like ,idk, 50 years ago, so they had to let him because of the grandfather clause. i dont know if it will work for a gunshop, but might not hurt to try...

[Kodiak]

either that or find a building that is grandfathered in. god i love that stipulation in Philly. when i lived there a friend of mine was trying to open a tattoo shop. he found a building that used to be a tattoo shop like ,idk, 50 years ago, so they had to let him because of the grandfather clause. i dont know if it will work for a gunshop, but might not hurt to try...

Oh now thats an idea!

[mrjam2jab]

either that or find a building that is grandfathered in. god i love that stipulation in Philly. when i lived there a friend of mine was trying to open a tattoo shop. he found a building that used to be a tattoo shop like ,idk, 50 years ago, so they had to let him because of the grandfather clause. i dont know if it will work for a gunshop, but might not hurt to try...

Hmmm....i would have thought that once that building became "something else" it would have lost the grandfather effect....???