Not really. The state minions are very intelligent and capable people with a goal to accomplish. This just happens to be a case where they purport to be pusuing one goal while actually pursing another. They AGs office is either full of stupid people or they know exactly what they are trying to accomplish. My vote is on the later. Even NJ did not choose to go to the mat on this one like MA is (is, not was - this is just the first round).
It remains to be seen if the "non hobby" gun shops that generally handle dozens of transactions per hour on a Saturday will even bother open to do four per hour.
This isn't a win. I can't see them opening to 4/hr.
I'm sorry to detract from it. I do understand that it is a logistic step in a difficulr+-to-+move direction in the 4d chess game.
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The state just placed a burden on them, without justification. (or well, I guess this is a TRO , so technically the court did. )
Can anyone do the maths along side me? I can't envision a world where any brick and mortar could even pay the power bill on a diet of transfer fees only.
Taking a small shop example 1 owner 3 employees. Open 7 days a week. Normal daily peak hour serves 50 people. Conversion rate of 20%.
One employee is the gunsmith. Half the time he gets brought up from the dungeon, it's a turn-a-way.
So an hour block could have been:
10 transactions.
2 ffl transfer fees $60
2 ammo purchases for $200 (profit $50)
1 gunsmith sight install $75 minus the $30 to the employee and $20 for insurance and taxes on his overhead.
1 handgun sale Taurus Curve and a box of .380 $400 (profit $100)
1 used gun consignment sale (maybe $50 profit)
1 new rifle sale $1100 Ruger American Scout with goodies (profit $150)
1 pepper spray for a dudes GF $12 ($5 maybe )
1 fake turkey lawn ornament as a joke ($5)
This is a kicking business, employees make 20-35/hr (40 hr / week. 2 off per year paid. With health insurance)
Take that example hour. 20% conversion rate. 50 person flow.
If 20 of those hours happened a week, this shop would pull in $1.9 million a year net. $225k in profit. Call that a baseline.
Now yank that down to 4 /hour
Max: $85k (biggest transactions )
Min: -$211k (smallest transactions)
This was calculated assuming a 100% conversion rate per appointment (all appointments generate a sale. Doubtful. Should actually be between 50% and 75% conversion.)
Now If 2/3 employees were fired. Not including unemployment costs.
Max: $248k
Min: -$71k
That's a lot of risk.No way would I run a business with a potential swing into the red that far.
20 good hours per week at my initial rates would give me a few hundred K in profit, while paying for 3 employees. Business flow would have to cut that in half to see a loss.
Vs the 4apt/hour plan. Which offers no ability to maintain a floor on paper.