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Curious how many suppressor mfgs will secretly oppose this idea?
I'm not sure why any suppressor manufacturers would oppose this. The tax stamp and delay are the ONLY two reasons I don't have several suppressors. If they were a BGC only, I think I would have a few less firearms and suppressors for each application instead.
Now that I have fully thought this through, my wife wont want this to pass....
Their profit margins would plummet. All of a sudden 20-30 worth of aluminum can no longer be up charged to 3-400. 80-100 dollars worth of steel and titanium would no longer get you 800-1000 dollars in sales.
Margins in the gun realm are pretty good if you have already paid for the machinery to produce them.
The suppressor side of things is the same. Roughly most of the cost was labor.
I worked next door to a suppressor manufacturer back in Reno and he was a one man shop. He made 50ish cans a day. All automated. The materials cost decent amounts. Roughly 80-200 worth of steel and titanium to produce a 30 cal or bigger can. He charged in the thousands. I know the licensing was likely expensive, but I doubt he wasn't rolling in the profits, even being a fleck in the market share.
I think the sales numbers would more than make up for any loss in profits due to price decrease needed to stay competitive. I personally think its got a snowballs chance in hell getting passed, but think sales would skyrocket at first then level off to a much higher rate than they are now. With that, overall profit per unit may decrease, but overall sales volume would likely jump quite a bit.
The Gooch and his ilk were building AKs a decade ago for $2k plus. Then everybody and their brother realized it isn't that hard for a mechanically inclined person and a few tools to produce a fine AK from a kit. I'm not sure why I would need to pay someone else's husband to build a suppressor for me if it was made legal. Imagine all the "kits" that will be on the market like those "solvent traps"... lolTheir profit margins would plummet. All of a sudden 20-30 worth of aluminum can no longer be up charged to 3-400. 80-100 dollars worth of steel and titanium would no longer get you 800-1000 dollars in sales.
Margins in the gun realm are pretty good if you have already paid for the machinery to produce them.
The suppressor side of things is the same. Roughly most of the cost was labor.
I worked next door to a suppressor manufacturer back in Reno and he was a one man shop. He made 50ish cans a day. All automated. The materials cost decent amounts. Roughly 80-200 worth of steel and titanium to produce a 30 cal or bigger can. He charged in the thousands. I know the licensing was likely expensive, but I doubt he wasn't rolling in the profits, even being a fleck in the market share.