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Tip O’hat to my buddy Ben, who works in the Firearms trade.
Turns out? Stocking a brand new gun store is really, really expensive. REALLY expensive. But at least Alex has the liquid funds to make it happen.
So I may do a comic in the upcoming days about this. Or perhaps this. Or, fuck, even this. I don’t fucking know anymore. When I started this comic, I thought the world had gone insane already. Little did I know that the insanity was just beginning. Shit doesn’t really make sense anymore. Regardless of your politics, if you have a sound mind, I think we can all agree that this country, and this world, is straight fucked the fuck up.
So in that regard, time for a call out for guest strips!
If you are a cartoonist, I’m looking for another week of FTF guest strips. Note that I am not looking for fan art. Don’t get me wrong, I like fan art as much as the next cartoonist – but if someone does a guest strip, I want them to have a comic online already, that FTF fans might enjoy.
Interested? Send me an email at flemcomics@yahoo.com – or even just send your comic and the site to link to. I only need five, so if I get more than that, I’ll choose the best of the bunch. The only requirements are:
– The strip must be related to the comic, or firearms in general in some way.
– It should be 600 pixels wide. No limits on height.
That’s it! So send me your art. If you want free hits on your site and whatnot.
And have a good weekend! I’ll be busy cleaning my guns and making sure my survival stores are 5 by 5.
1.2 million in firearms. Wow.
Just wow.
That’s about the same price as three government toilet seats isn’t it?
If you ever get bored, watch the episode of West Wing where they covered that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9kH_HOUXM
Did you drop a 0 on the amount of ammo? He said 30,000 rounds and if he is paying wholesale that should average less than $1 per round. So out of $1,200,000 he spent less than $30,000 on ammo?
Yeah, I thought 30,000 rounds was a tad light on ammo for an initial order. Unless it’s going to be a small, mom & pop store. But with an attached firing range and a clientel that isn’t buying their usual “a box of shells every three years for deer season”, that might not be a week’s worth of ammo.
As a one off you could make her three boobs Obama, Bidden and Holder.
On the one hand, that’s a huge amount of money for anyone to think about, for anyone inclined to think about money in a personal sense.
On the other, almost every other small gun business in the world would do something like this by the grace of a crippling amount of debt, and pray they would do enough in sales to make it work. Alex, as Grant says above, has the [i]liquid[/i] resources to do this. She has the cash sitting in a bank account. She [i]probably[/i] doesn’t have a building loan either. Or rent of any form.
Having 1.2 mill in inventory and no debt? Means having 1.2 mill you can sell over time without having to sweat balls, letting word of mouth spread, and you’re fine so long as you make enough for payroll and your own personal expenses. And as I recall, Alex also owns her own house, again probably without a mortgage. So, so long as she can pay for Ramen and condoms….
I’ve often thought that the way to end up with a small fortune from running a gun shop is to start out with a large one.
There’s the old joke of, “How do you make a million dollars in the restaurant business? First, you start with two million dollars…” Ask me how I know.
30,000 rounds of ammo is not very much. That will get them through a few days. The average customer will buy two boxes for a range session. That is only enough for 300 customers. 100,000 rounds is only one pallet. It sounds like a lot, but it’s not.
Yup. Shit, I have friends who have 30K in rounds for personal use. (They buy by the case to save money, and have many different calibers to feed. It adds up. . . )
But no .22LR…..
In additional “we are fucked up here” news … our Prime Minister urged people not to let fear of making the same mistakes again hold them back from another military intervention in Iraq, our Parliament voted massively in favour of it, the Sun (Fox News in print form, with topless woman on page 3 every day except Sunday) has a front page that says we’re all urging the PM to hit Iraq and Syria when actually hitting ISIS in both places would be helping Iraq and Syria … if we get it right … and the first item on the news was some old git going to court to be sentenced for groping women years ago. World War 3? Somewhere between sport and weather.
We’re going to fuck it up, aren’t we? FSA, Syrian government, Iraqi government, Kurdish Peshmerga, a dozen other militias, ISIS and civilians everywhere and judging by that Murdoch-owned front page our government doesn’t think we’ll care which ones they bomb as long as we get to see the explosions on TV. We’re going to fuck it up.
The world has been going to hell in a handbasket for years. This is just the latest iteration of idiocy.
Yeah, next week who knows why kind of idiocy the collective of humanity will dredge up next.
It’s a shame that 3rd boob girl was a hoax. Were she genuinely getting a 3rd boob to ruin her appearance (this line of thought should’ve tipped us off it was a hoax in the first place), it’d be funny to get her reaction when the porno companies start calling her offering parts.
It’s also a shame we’ll never get to see Eric Holder a- do a perp walk, b- model an orange jumpsuit, c- get found guilty, d- get asked how he enjoys being on the other side of the justice system.
Most people do not realize how much money in tied up in stock. Also, the cost of buy for a store is lower then what consumers pay.