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I work for an FFL, selling all kinds of firearms 50 or so hours a week. You may know that the profit margin is next to nothing. What really kills the industry - the businesses that exist to make a profit - is internet and living room FFL's who exist solely because the FFL holder is too stupid to realize that earning a $50.00 profit on a gun that he bought wholesale for $950.00 is a loss.

The typical firearm markup is 15 - 20%. Try to run a businees on that, when your customers often treat your $100,000 inventory as though it was a showroom for them to play with a rifle, then they can go buy it from some pinhead for fifty bucks over cost, because the pinhead actually thinks he's making money.

To all the pinheads out there - try placing a $10,000 stocking order with Kimber, and a $50,000 stocking order with Remington, then you can show them the gun they want instead of making me do it.

While you're at it, learn how to disassemble the things and clean them, so I don't have to tell your customers how to do it. After all, there's money in it for you: Fifty bucks.

While you're at it, why don't you employ somebody at your "business," and try paying rent and collecting sales tax?

I have no problem with entrepeneurs. Its dimwitted hobbyists that don't understand the damage their fifty dollar profit is doing to the real industry that make me puke.

And if you sympathize with the hobbyist FFL holder, remember how much you liked him when all the local shops are out of business and you can buy whatever crap is on sale at Wal Mart, if the kiddies there can remember how to fill out the form.

Sorry, it's whatever the market will bear. But, speaking of what the future holds, I've seen it. I live in California and have seen merchandise eliminated for no other reason than gunowners too stupid or too lazy to vote the whores out of office.

Back when I still lived in a civilized state, I collected older (pinned) Smith revolvers. Here in Satan's domain (CA), people are too stupid to shoot a Smith wheelgun without blowing off their toes. (That's my guess, since there is no safety flaw in Smith revolvers, at all.)

So the low life, scum dwelling demonRats that run the state (from Sacramento: there's a real joke of a city) decided you can't buy the venerable Smith wheelgun with the pinned barrel.

I sympathize with you. I've done business with these "gun dealers" who operate out of the trunk of their car. I don't mind paying a bit more for a firearm from my neighborhood dealer, simply because he'll be around long after the hobbyist decides to try his hand at selling CB radios.

(And that will probably be just after his taco truck fails.)

I run a motorcyle accessory and repair, and can't agree more with what kind of damage these types of people do to the business until they run out of money. I'm all for competing with the people who have overhead.

And the point about getting your stuff at Wal Mart, they can't sell guns in California right now, and they have never even sold ammunition at the Panorama City Wallyworld since it opened here in the San Fernando Valley. Meanwhile, the good old gun shops like B&B Sales, Pony Express, etc. are gone now.

I must agree, though, with others in this thread that aiding the government in closing down the small FFL is bordering on traitorous.