America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
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#2This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#3This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#4This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
Clearly we need to elect another Democratic president to spur the market on.
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#5This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
Adding onto this, guns also last more or less indefinitely under normal usage and a proper care regimen (which, granted, not everybody follows).
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#6This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
>How many guns does one need?
Need or want? Like any other hobby your limit is your budget.
There are guns that exist for no other reason than the lulz ("hundred dolla problem solva" I'm looking at you). Historically inclined individuals could spend a fortune just collecting variants of one specific niche of firearms from a particular nation and time period.
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#7This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
> My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3
From my experience, that's sort of low. I never thought my neighbors had so many guns, until I started spending time at the shooting range. A common site is a trunk packed to the gills with firearms. The "gun guys" buy them like the "sneaker guys" buy Nikes. They usually won't talk about it, unless you express interest or go shooting with them.
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#8There's a certain amount of poetic justice here for Remington, seeing as how they acquired Marlin and then fired all their expertise, completely ruining the brand. Good riddance.
Re: America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery
#9This is not an uncommon story for firearm manufacturers unfortunately. Tooling costs are high, sales hard to predict, and designs can fail easily. Ian McCollum of Forgotten Weapons has done a lot of videos on this topic.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
As a firearm enthusiast, the answer to "How many guys does one need?" is always "Just one more." It's a fun hobby that I can spend time with my kids.
They also make great investments as a quality firearm holds it worth and often increases in value.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's also the issue - perhaps - of market saturation. How many guns does one need? My pro-gun friends typically seem to have 2-3 but shy away from any more than that.
Clearly we need to elect another Democratic president to spur the market on.
But preferably after two particular members of a certain branch of government croak and a republican president gets to replace them. I like my snake unstepped. People who live in certain states that shall not be named deserve their snake unstepped too.