We’re Almost Open!
Posted by William Kapeles on August 5, 2007
Friends, we’re almost there. We have one more hurdle before we open the doors fully. We meet with the BATF on Aug. 7 for our regulatory review. Once that meeting is finished, our license will be issued. We will FINALLY be able to sell firearms, provide gunsmithing services, and manufacture ammunition. Thank you so much for bearing with us as we get the legalities accomplished.
As many of you already know, we are open for limited business. You can currently purchase ammunition, accessories, and other non-FFL required sporting goods. Please contact us via our website if you have questions or need to order something. WWW.BPCUSTOMSHOP.COM.
Our online reloading manual is coming along nicely, too. WWW.AMMODATA.COM will be operational around December 2007. We will try to do it sooner, but there is a lot of data that must be programmed into it. Please let us know if you have some constructive input as to how you would like it to work.
Again, thank you to everyone who is waiting patiently for the shop to get opened. We’ll be open in a couple weeks!
Paul & Bill
August 5, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Wow, that sounds great. I don’t know about your enterprise, but I’m going to check out the website and flip through your blog. I bet it was a long, expensive process to get the FFL. I don’t think the general public understands the pressure that FFL’s are under above and beyond any normal business. Is this something you can talk about in the blog?
August 7, 2007 at 1:20 am
Thanks for the comment Jared. And you’re right - opening a firearms related business is a very complicated, stressful, and expensive venture. We’re almost there. As for operating a firearms business, people sometimes ask why small shops charge more - and then proceed to tell the proprietor that they can get it cheaper at Wal-Mart. The answer I try to give them is that small shops actually have to provide a profit as well as deal with the red tape that the large corporations can staff with lawyers. People can get items inexpensively at large chains, but in doing so, they kill the small shops. Then they complain about not being able to find anyone who knows about their products or who provide customer service. It’s a vicious cycle in our country. Everyone wants stuff so cheap that the “skilled tradesmen” that are our nation’s small business owners cannot compete. We believe that we have to fight this trend - and that’s a lot of the reason we’ve decided to open the shop.
Anyway, hope you like what you see. Let us know if you want to see any particular firearm or ammo topic written up.
Bill