{"id":20050,"date":"2022-03-30T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/qa-59-questions-for-a-gun-shop-owner-w-kurt-stancl\/"},"modified":"2022-03-30T08:00:12","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T13:00:12","slug":"qa-59-questions-for-a-gun-shop-owner-w-kurt-stancl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/qa-59-questions-for-a-gun-shop-owner-w-kurt-stancl\/","title":{"rendered":"Q&#038;A 59: Questions for a Gun Shop Owner w\/ Kurt Stancl"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"autoplay\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OtDy4Cw_u34?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today we have a bunch of questions about gun shops, and I am joined by Kurt Stancl, of Bear Arms in Scottsdale AZ. You can find him at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BearArmsAZ\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BearArmsAZ\/<\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beararmsaz\/?hl=en<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beararmsaz\/?hl=en<br<\/a> \/><br \/>0:00:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>0:02:02 &#8211; How have online sales impacted the business?<br \/>0:03:55 &#8211; Profit margins on guns vs accessories<br \/>0:05:08 &#8211; How do you choose what brands and models to stock?<br \/>0:07:36 &#8211; And brands you don&#8217;t stock because of poor quality?<br \/>0:10:17 &#8211; Most popular rifle, pistol and shotgun in the middle price range?<br \/>0:12:38 &#8211; One thing you wish customers would stop doing in the store?<br \/>0:15:16 &#8211; Considerations for someone considering opening a gun store?<br \/>0:18:45 &#8211; Advice for someone getting a CCW \/ first gun?<br \/>0:22:59 &#8211; Trends in demand based on social media, video games, or current events?<br \/>0:26:57 &#8211; Most rare or obscure things to walk through the door?<br \/>0:29:34 &#8211; Does ATF behavior change or time, especially between different administrations?<br \/>0:32:13 &#8211; And really outrageous special orders?<br \/>0:34:03 &#8211; Do you cross-post inventory to GunBroker?<br \/>0:35:51 &#8211; Is the ban on Russian ammo impacting supply?<br \/>0:37:16 &#8211; Why do some shops charge so much for transfers?<br \/>0:40:06 &#8211; Biggest positive and negative changes in the business since you started?<br \/>0:43:10 &#8211; Most returned gun?<br \/>0:44:58 &#8211; What are some under appreciated brands?<br \/>0:46:36 &#8211; Are some distributors better than others to work with?<br \/>0:48:36 &#8211; Some shops are going out of business because of supply chain issues &#8211; is this a problem for you?<br \/>0:51:33 &#8211; Shops accepting (or not) C&#038;R licenses<br \/>0:54:44 &#8211; Red flags for a customer in a new gun shop?<br \/>0:57:00 &#8211; Why do shops talk down to female customers?<br \/>1:01:20 &#8211; What do you enjoy selling the most?<br \/>1:02:32 &#8211; Qualifications you look for in new employees?<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>Forgotten Weapons<br \/>6281 N. Oracle 36270<br \/>Tucson, AZ 85740<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/utreon.com\/c\/forgottenweapons\/ http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.forgottenweapons.com Today we have a bunch of questions about gun shops, and I am joined by Kurt Stancl, of Bear Arms in Scottsdale AZ. You can find him at: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/BearArmsAZ\/https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/beararmsaz\/?hl=en0:00:00 &#8211; Introduction0:02:02 &#8211; How have online sales impacted the business?0:03:55 &#8211; Profit margins on guns vs accessories0:05:08 &#8211; How&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/30\/qa-59-questions-for-a-gun-shop-owner-w-kurt-stancl\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Q&#038;A 59: Questions for a Gun Shop Owner w\/ Kurt Stancl<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":20051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}