<div dir="ltr">Dave's already answered the question, but I'll note an exception: DIY.<div><br></div><div>Gunsmiths get a lot of leeway and deference. So far as I know, they can make their own guns in whatever quantity they want. Selling or giving those guns to others is where legal restrictions start to come into play. And of course, past a certain quantity, it's generally cheaper to buy the manufacturing means and raw materials than to buy the finished product. Consider the cost of a million pistols, versus the price of an equivalent weight of steel or aluminum, some tooling, a few industrial robot arms, and solar panels to power them. Of course, this is a high enough price that it rarely comes up in practice: those who believe they would gain value from having that many guns, are rarely able to think of - let alone pull off - such an approach.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, if you're thinking of running a gun store in these times, perhaps take a clue from Walmart and sell groceries too. Perhaps canned goods and other long-lasting survivalist chow; you could probably sell hand sanitizer and masks too. Just make that over 50% (by area and by money) of your store, with guns being less than half.<br><div><div><br></div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Apr 11, 2020 at 6:58 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Does anyone know if there are special requirements to get a license to sell guns? Gun shops. Pawn shops. Walmart.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">My point: if you could obtain such a license, you could presumably order guns wholesale in any quantity you wanted.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Are there laws on the books to prevent this? </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)">bill w</div></div>
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