TTv2
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- Mar 31, 2016
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If the life and death of your business rests on your ammo sales and limited ability to buy in large enough quantities to compete with the big boys online, you and really every other brick and mortar FFL got a problem with how you do business and perhaps you should stop selling ammo altogether because I, and others, are not running a charity.As an FFL its nice to know you think so highly of us. I have a batch of 9mm on my shelf retailing for .49 cents per round that I paid, from the factory, .44 cents a round. Us little guys don't have the liquidity to invest in oodles of ammo to crate up in back in case the supply lines turn sour, and even if we did this nonsense has been going for over two years now. If my whole store started out packed floor to ceiling with ammo in 2019 it would have been a drop in the bucket. I pay what it takes to get the ammo I need for my customers, and they pay that amount plus 20%.
>because that's not my problem
When there's nothing left in this country but big box stores and their "better business models" you're going to have a hard time buying any guns that the big, monied, and politically sensitive Walmarts of the world don't feel like letting you transfer. I'd enjoy charging you $200 for a transfer fee though. "Gotta keep the doors open."
And since you made that little quip about $200 transfer fees, at least now I know if online gun sales do get banned that you guys are going to move to sell all your firearm inventory at MSRP because of the lack of competition and play right into the hands of what the anti's want: higher prices for guns.
At the very least if the business ever does go belly up you can always transition into a used car salesman. You'd fit right in.