How to Start a Gun Range Business

The Houston Chronicle published a surprisingly pro-gun article, I say pro-gun because these people are notorious gun haters:

Step 1Research your license and zoning requirements. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has an informative website and offers call-in support. Your local city offices can educate you on the zoning laws in various areas and the requirements you must meet.

Step 2Visit shooting ranges in and out of your area, and attend as many gun shows as possible. Ask questions of the people already involved in the industry and establish contacts with gun manufacturers who are likely to have helpful advice for anyone opening a commercial establishment that can promote and sell their products.

Step 3Join the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry’s largest trade association, the National Rifle Association and other interest groups where you can obtain news and advice.

Step 4Write your business plan giving special attention to the costs involved. It can be very expensive to build a shooting range from scratch, particularly if it will be an indoor range. Contact local ranges to see if they would consider selling or taking on a partner as the cost of improving an existing establishment may be far less than building a new one and you would have the added benefit of an existing customer base.

Step 5Contact several commercial real estate brokers and establish relationships with those who are knowledgeable with respect to the zoning laws and safety requirements involved in a shooting range.

Launch

 

Consider Bright Colors like red and yellow, and a high sign like this one if you can afford it. It’s cheaper than a billboard.

Step 1Decide on your company image and apply that image to your name, logo, facility decorations, promotional literature and advertising. Your company image must meet the psychological needs of your target customer.

Step 2Promote your launch to local gun clubs, service clubs, sporting goods stores and commercial associations.

Step 3Provide special discounts and contests to draw customers during your first months of operation.

Step 4Offer classes in responsible gun ownership, maintenance and use through local night school and community recreation programs.

Step 5Promote your launch date with advertising and a grand opening celebration.

Source: http://smallbusiness.chron.com/start-gun-range-business-2163.html

 

 

A tale of Two Initiatives in Washington State

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One demands Universal background checks, the other prohibits them, Washington is a blue state, so it remains to be seen which side will emerge victorious.

OLYMPIA — Supporters of a gun-control measure calling for universal background checks turned in what they said were another 95,000 signatures Thursday, giving them a total of an estimated 345,000 signatures, one day before Friday’s deadline for initiatives to the 2014 Legislature, the Washington Secretary of State’s Office said on its Web blog.

The minimum number of valid voter signatures needed to be sent to the Legislature this winter is 246,372.


Initiative 594 requires universal background checks on gun purchases.

Sponsors of a competing measure, I-591, plan to bring in another 5,000 signatures Friday afternoon after submitting about 340,000 signatures in late November, the office said. That initiative would prohibit government agencies from confiscating guns or other firearms from citizens without due process, or from requiring background checks on firearm recipients unless a uniform national standard is required.

If validated, the two measures would go first to the Legislature, which could approve either or both measures as submitted, ignore or reject them and allow them to go to the 2014 general election ballot.

Source: http://q13fox.com/2014/01/02/supporters-of-gun-control-initiative-turn-into-more-voter-signatures/#ixzz2pIMhiovS

Horse Control: DeBlasio goes after Carriages.

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This is what working people get when they elect a Marxist, when they’re not coming after your guns, they’re coming after your livelihood.

New York City Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has vowed to move quickly to outlaw the horse-drawn carriages that pull tourists around the city’s famous Central Park.

“We are going to get rid of the horse carriages. Period,” de Blasio, who takes office New Year’s Day, said at a news conference Monday. “They are not humane, they are not appropriate for the year 2014. It’s over. So, just watch us do it.”

Great, so now the tourists won’t be able to ride in a carriage, something you can do right here in Chattanooga. And why is DeBlasio killing jobs? Because he cares more for animals than people.

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Animal-rights activists say the carriage horses are overworked and claim that the city’s traffic and pollution create an unsafe environment.

“They constantly breathe exhaust while dodging dangerous traffic,” says the website of one anti-carriage group, New Yorkers for Clean, Livable, and Safe Streets (NYCLASS), “confined to the shafts of their carriage and their tiny stable stalls, with no access to green pastures.”

They’re beast of burden, you idiots. What do you want for them? Massages? Human beings breathe exhausts and do perfectly fine. Besides, these animals have been breeding crap since the days of the industrial revolution, it’s no big deal.

“It’s not over,” driver Christina Hansen told the New York Daily News. “You cannot just get rid of a business, a perfectly legal well-regulated … just because a few people don’t like it.

“If (de Blasio) wants to ban them because they’re dangerous and inhumane, he needs to prove that.”

That’s the problem with well-regulated businesses, eventually they can regulate them out of existence. I wish Christina luck, but let’s face it, this is New York City and the Mayor faces little opposition, specially when he’s a commie.