Sean,
A good question to ask is: How large was the original Tavor shipment to Canada? The one that sold, and that is actually in the hands of the users. 50 rifles? Maybe a 100?
Your potential market at the moment is a percentage of that (In fact percentage of the existing Tavor owners that are both on CGN and know about your products).
So then you ask yourself, is it worth it to make a run of these parts? Will your be able to sell the rail at the cost that will be both attractive to the Tavor owner, and would allow you to turn a profit?
Anyone without a Tavor on their hands would be unlikely to buy parts for it.
Sorry, just a doze of skepticism.
You'd probably have much better commercial success creating new handguards and optic rails for HK SL8s - the market for these is larger, the competition are KAC and B&T, whose products are not cheap (And in case of KAC are quite unobtainium), and for which a price is known, and H und K users are already used to paying massive premiums to dress their SL8s up to look like G36es.
Heck, can you make bayonet lugs for HK36? That's a hard to source part for an SL8 to G36 conversion. If those would be legal to export to US, you'd have the sales volume to make them commercially viable.
Want another commercially viable product? Springed firing pin for SKS, to replace the free floating one. I paid 80 USD + shipping to replace it in my SKS, and am thinking about doing the same in another. How many SKSes are out there in Canada? How many people are concerned about slamfires (or could become concerned with some skillful marketing?)? Heck, there is even a market in US, since BATFE ruled that replacing a firing pin in an SKS with a springed one is a safety related modification, and will not invalidate the C&R status of the firearm (thus no need for 922r compliance).
A good question to ask is: How large was the original Tavor shipment to Canada? The one that sold, and that is actually in the hands of the users. 50 rifles? Maybe a 100?
Your potential market at the moment is a percentage of that (In fact percentage of the existing Tavor owners that are both on CGN and know about your products).
So then you ask yourself, is it worth it to make a run of these parts? Will your be able to sell the rail at the cost that will be both attractive to the Tavor owner, and would allow you to turn a profit?
Anyone without a Tavor on their hands would be unlikely to buy parts for it.
Sorry, just a doze of skepticism.
You'd probably have much better commercial success creating new handguards and optic rails for HK SL8s - the market for these is larger, the competition are KAC and B&T, whose products are not cheap (And in case of KAC are quite unobtainium), and for which a price is known, and H und K users are already used to paying massive premiums to dress their SL8s up to look like G36es.
Heck, can you make bayonet lugs for HK36? That's a hard to source part for an SL8 to G36 conversion. If those would be legal to export to US, you'd have the sales volume to make them commercially viable.
Want another commercially viable product? Springed firing pin for SKS, to replace the free floating one. I paid 80 USD + shipping to replace it in my SKS, and am thinking about doing the same in another. How many SKSes are out there in Canada? How many people are concerned about slamfires (or could become concerned with some skillful marketing?)? Heck, there is even a market in US, since BATFE ruled that replacing a firing pin in an SKS with a springed one is a safety related modification, and will not invalidate the C&R status of the firearm (thus no need for 922r compliance).
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