Ask HN: Who would fund a pro-2A startup?
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#3Gun products sound very US-centric... And even there, there is lots of anti-gun sentiment. Are you sure you want to exclude most if not all of Europe, half of the US, and potentially more from your addressable market?
It’s a large, stale market with incompetent competitors and no technology. I feel confident the idea will work and scale. The people with an anti-gun sentiment are not my customers.
Globally there’s nothing stopping this idea from interfacing with governments or other buyers abroad but initially the market is US.
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#7You would have to live outside US and it’s territory before engaging in such tertiary funding.
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#8What do you need funding for? How much does it actually cost to build this thing?
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#9Have you identified an existing, profitable product/service that you wish to disrupt with your product?
I'm curious. I co-founded what was the largest local grassroots RKBA group in the country in the 90s-2000s (originally an NRA Members' Council, we later disassociated from NRA to avoid problematic intra-NRA politics). Contact info in profile.
Re: Ask HN: Who would fund a pro-2A startup?
#10Gun products sound very US-centric... And even there, there is lots of anti-gun sentiment. Are you sure you want to exclude most if not all of Europe, half of the US, and potentially more from your addressable market?
Yeah, it's not like there are any gun makers of significance in Austria... or Germany... or Switzerland... or the Czech Republic... or Belgium... or Russia... or...