Why are gun shops closed on the weekend?

[juststarting]

Random thought... Since most people who shoot also work, because shooting costs money and every single Melbourne gunshop closes around 5... I recon the first shop to stay open, say, 10am to 4pm on the weekend (can stay close on Mon and Tue) will double its business over those two days. This old school mentality of working your hours, instead of around your customers' hours really agitates me.

[bigfellascott]

Cos they wanna go shooting too!

[aaronjo]

I guess it's a matter of making money or family time?

I run a small business myself and my wife works Mon-Fri full time and for now I'm open Sat (which leaves Sun as the only day to have family time). If I open Sun, I would want to work it myself (less wage cost as I'm paying my staff double) to minimise expenses and to ensure they're not mucking around if I'm paying them that much.

[pomemax]

Some range shops are open all weekend IE: St marys another shop in st marys open all week end sun of a gun if im not mistake Silverdale and Malabar have range shops too
See another reason to move to Sydney lol
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[juststarting]

I totally get the family time and I didn't actually know about higher rate on Sunday... But for few bigger shops, Frankston, Clayton, Gun Emporium - I see no issue, since they already have staff and they could be on a rotating roster. Just a random thought, that's all.

[on_one_wheel]

Most of my local gun shops are open Saturday until 12 ish.

[juststarting]

Ye, same here.

[on_one_wheel]

Blow a sicky

[deye243]

coz they wanna shoot to and gunempoium is open till 19:00 on Wednesdays

[Title_II]

Because of they just left them open then people would walk off with stuff

[Shorti85]

Sunbury Firearms are open till 7pm Wed-Fri and open till 2pm Sat.
It would be good to see one open Sunday's as I work 6 days a week and almost the same hours as most gunshops. If you need ammo on a Sunday go to gun range. Eagle park have a fair range of ammo on hand

[Supporter]

So people have a day off and all the rest, but...

Fact is we have relatively few gun shops. I'd say there are only 1 or 2, maybe 3 within range of most people.

Not like most retail where everyone has 50 competitors in range and you stay open to compete. Without many other options they know you will make the time to get there when they're open because you don't have much other choice.

[Title_II]

There are 6500 gun dealers in the Great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (check ATF website). Our wondrous Cabellas flagship store in Hamburg, Pennsylvania sells more firearms per year than any location in the world.

If you are ever in the area, check it out. Everybody online likes to show their mountain with animals all over it, or their safari museum with African animals. But they have a "deer" museum that goes noticed online, it's the size of a battleship. Hundreds upon hundreds of trophy deer and maybe some other antlered animals (I forget) with descriptions of who, what, when, and where.

They have a flash tour online. It will not give you the feel of walking into one of the largest buildings in the world, but you can see some of the stuff.

[Wes]

I wouldn't think there would be more than a hundred or two here in Aus.

[Rick]

I'm pretty sure The Shooting Zone in Mansfield Vic are open 7 days. I found their hours! Shane and Mandy are great folks.

Monday to Thursday 8-00am to 6pm
Fridays 8-00am to 7pm
Saturdays 8-00am to 4pm
Sundays 8-00am to 2pm

[Wheelbarrow]

Mansfield is a popular hunting spot in Victoria isn't it?

I had a quick look at Google maps and see it's a few hours from the city, I guess it's worth their while to be open for the weekend hunters/campers.