Anyone know the wholesale price dealers pay for new guns?

[45ACPUSER]

Then think about it......
Think about how many people are just tire kicking schelps.....you take up the time of the counter personel at a shop with ?'s you probably already know the answer to. This just to trip up the counter staff. Then think about ...... if a guy/gal working the counter is making $10 bucks it probably costs the business $20 to keep him there with respect to taxes, insurance, and such. So, to pay his salary for an 8hr day....this guy needs to move some product....and that is before the lights, rent, other over head gets involved.....

Sure there are people that have a friend that runs out of another business or something a kin to the proverbial kitchen table dealer.....

Heck back in the day in a town of 1500 there were 3 real FFL holders (two hardware stores and gun shop/clothing shop), and yet there were 16 people that held FFL's....of course this was before the Clinton Purge..

What so many wise as posters forget and seem to never factor in....is the FOPA 86 allowed them to buy ammo, components, and such via mail order without an FFL.....oh yeah there was time...when you have to have a FFL to get that stuff shipped.....

 

[Kindrox]

A retailer myself, I find it hard to believe gun stores can survive on 10% markups. A real reasonable rent number for a gun store would easily be $2500 a month in rent, $500 a month in utilities, and $4500 a month in salaries. Factor in phone bills, credit card transaction fees and other real costs, and most gun stores won't have less than $8k in fixed expenses a month.

The costs I cited are more a lower bound. Most gun stores I go to are probably around $16k a month in fixed expenses.

Supposing the store was only selling guns, they would have to move $80k to $160k a month just to break even. I don't think most local gun stores are moving such a volume of guns.

 

[JohnBT]

I think guns are almost a loss leader. The two largest shops I'm familiar with sell a lot of fishing stuff, bows, clothing, decoys, cases, reloading supplies & ammo(HA), safes, boots, waders, scopes, cleaning supplies, etc. They also take in a lot of trades and sell used guns. They aren't the cheapest shops, but they have a good inventory and they're very friendly. And they're inventory contains a much wider selection than our Bass Pro and G. Mountain.

John

 

[logical]

Bread has a very poor shipping density so it is very expensive to move around. I could put 10 Glocks in the space of one loaf of whole wheat. Bread costs what is does largely due to shipping costs and the fact that it is perishable. You can't wait until you have a semi-load to ship...you have to ship whatever you made today..right away. Maybe the truck is full, probably not. It's an interesting little factoid that a loaf of bread only has 20 cents worth of flour in it....but it is meaningless without a nickle's worth of yeast, a $500,000 bakery, a staff of bakers and a fleet of trucks.

Besides, guns aren't bread.