Hiring Firearm Assembler in Barrie, Ontario

UpperCanadaRebellion said:
Maybe you should just close down if you can’t afford to pay reasonable wages for skilled labour…


This is not the first advert of yours offering poverty wages, honestly less than loblaws.

I won’t be shopping with you guys now that i know what you pay your staff.
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Haha, they did say entry level and no prior experience required. You want them to pay $40 an hour for that? You shop at loblaws? lol

I live too far away but would certainly be interested if I lived in Barrie as I’m retired. Bonus that my daughter works damn near beside them and I hadn’t noticed they were there the last time I visited. I’ll certainly drop in and say hello next time I’m in town.
 
Victory Ridge Sportsman said:
Our benefits package is valued at an additional $2/hr, the store is a hell of alot cleaner and more comfortable than a DQ, our generous staff discount helps buy more pews (although I can see the appeal of cheap ice cream lol), and our customers are all like-minded folks so the daily traffic to our store provides good conversation and great company.

Its an entry level job that is not at all demanding and there is room to grow and take on more responsibility (and more pay) for the motivated and responsible individual. Plus the wage is negotiable based on skills and experience like anything else.

Thanks for sharing your opinion anyways, I will give it some careful consideration.
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Yeah, but do you have ice cream?
 
UpperCanadaRebellion said:
Maybe you should just close down if you can’t afford to pay reasonable wages for skilled labour…


This is not the first advert of yours offering poverty wages, honestly less than loblaws.

I won’t be shopping with you guys now that i know what you pay your staff.
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If this is what you qualify as "Skilled labour" I am curious as to what your skill set is...
 
UpperCanadaRebellion said:
A PAL and firearms experience isn’t entry level, no matter what they want to class it as.
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Brinks/Garda don’t pay much more, they also require a PAL and class 5 license and it’s a significantly more dangerous job that doesn’t really require much specialized experience. Also a PAL isn’t really a hard thing to get, it’s only a 2 day course at most, not much different than forklift training, transporting dangerous goods, or other small tickets/certifications. I’d say for $22/hr with benefits to assemble rifles is a lot better than dealing with Karens and awful managers/companies in retail/grocery/fast food or lifting 50lb+ boxes at a warehouse all day.
 
UpperCanadaRebellion said:
A PAL and firearms experience isn’t entry level, no matter what they want to class it as.


Clearly you're their target employee then, but anyone your (grand?) daughters age would have a more realistic view.
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You should open a gun shop in today's climate and we can laugh at you trying to operate it and staff people. They have a right to employ people for that wage, and if people don't apply they can change.
I'm sure you'd immediately pay 40$/hour for the same job and then when someone asks how much to sight a scope in and they laugh at your price, you'll be upset with them too lol.
This is a posting for a job, not for you to cry about what THEY are doing and also they pay for this forum to stay up and running, unlike you.
 
Deductions in Ontario at this wage are nearing 30% with zero dependants. At $22 per hour for 45 hours / week this equals out to roughly $16/hour NET. This isnt including benefits.


FatCatsDad said:
LOL, people act like a PAL is some kind of holy grail.

Any moron that can read can pass the test and get a PAL.
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This is just to assemble firearms and to coordinate with the other teams in the store. With coordinating with the other teams it sounds like no customer service experience required either.

Full time employment being 28+ to a max of 37.5 hours a week at a lot of retail establishments doesnt exactly foster a liveable situation either. If this independent retail establishment offers hours similar to their stores' hours of operation (45) and a bit flexible that makes it a bit better.
 
?? After deductions this is only 16 an hour? Bolded and underlined, but what is your point? Compare apples to apples then. Those other entry jobs that all pay the same are subject to the same tax deductions.

So, as a site that caters to an expensive life style (ie collecting and shooting, gear and range memberships) CGN has sort of self selected/biased towards people with disposable income.

Google the MEDIAN income for TORONTO.. Median household income in toronto ranges from 75 to 129, but more often right in that 85 000 level. This is what families actually live on (well, report as income anyways) This entry level job would get a family half way there, and theyre not in toronto (assuming actual full time hours)

TLDR: CGN caters to people with disposable income, and we sometimes forget how good we have it compared to many others.
 
Thunderhog said:
Our Dairy Queen girl makes $20.00 per hour in Cranbrook while serving ice-cream cones.

And you want to pay a person $20.00 - $22.00 an hour to assemble firearms? With a valid firearms licence?
Wow!
I didn’t know it was so inexpensive to live in Ontario…..:)
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The work is worth whatever salary the competent workforce will accept.
If there are 1,000 gunnies around Barrie
50 of em looking for a job
5 of them apply and get an interview
2 are competent
1 accepts the job and salary as-is

Then MRA offered exactly the right wage.

If its too low, MRA will find out and adjust.
But I'm willing to bet theres at least a few motivated 18-20 year-olds who would much rather assemble guns than serve ice cream.
UpperCanadaRebellion said:
A PAL and firearms experience isn’t entry level, no matter what they want to class it as.
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You must be joking.
 
This is such a shame. You want to pay far less than a livable wage and then wonder why you have a hard time finding a worker that takes pride in their work. This will be a revolving door position for folks, who will constantly be quitting as they find better opportunities. You will never have an assembler long enough to become experienced and will constantly be in a training process and dealing with defects from unexperienced workers. Fast food joints pay better wages and need no licence, mechanical ability, or any skill set whatsoever. Your store discount is worthless to someone that can’t afford to eat.

Note to self never purchase a firearm assembled by victory ridge sports.
 
It seems many people have no idea what percentage of jobs pay $20 and under.

Estimated share of jobs in Ontario paying less than $20/hour:

👉 Approximately ~20%–25% of employees.

This is based on percentile wage distributions from recent provincial data and national pay indicators.

In December 2024, there were about 8,118,800 people employed in Ontario (seasonally adjusted data from the Labour Force Survey).

Thats 1.6 million people in ON making $20 or less.

This firearms assembly job is not some strange slave wage job.

Im sure they'd love to pay this position $50 an hour but passing on labour costs to customers would result in a higher priced Canadian products that many would overlook.

Your $100 oil change at Mr. Lube would quickly double if the 3 guys doing your service all had their wages doubled.
 
Obviously, the folks criticizing the job aren't going to be applying.

As a pensioner, the job would be a great addition, and the dental plan would be excellent to have, being without a dental plan.
If I did live in the Barrie area, I would certainly think seriously about the job. Being a somewhat skilled gunsmith, I very much doubt that anything I assembled would be returned.
 
gorby said:
It ain't hoofing 2x4s in -20deg, haha. 20$-22$ with benefits to break into the firearms industry with no experience is pretty decent.
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Exactly! I started as a carpenters helper/labourer at the equivalent of what’s $20 an hour today. I was expected to drive all over my region to moving sites, supply my own hand/cordless tools, 10 hour days Monday to Thursday and 8 hours on Friday, most of the time outside in -20 in the winter or 30 in the summer. I was grateful for the job because it gave me the start to earn the skills I used to eventually open my own business. I now bill what I want, and work where I want, but it wouldn’t have happened without that entry level job.

To many Justice warriors out there expecting the world should be handed to you. This job is a fantastic opportunity, how many times a year do we get a new thread of a young guy asking how to get into gunsmithing with bleak results? This may not be that exactly but it’s a shoe into the industry and experience with hands on rifles.

Let’s also not lose sight of the positive to take away here, there’s clearly enough demand in the industry to justify hiring more workers, which should be the only takeaway for any of us not considering applying or sharing the post with someone who might be interested. Let’s lighten up.
 
DeadShot519 said:
This is such a shame. You want to pay far less than a livable wage and then wonder why you have a hard time finding a worker that takes pride in their work. This will be a revolving door position for folks, who will constantly be quitting as they find better opportunities. You will never have an assembler long enough to become experienced and will constantly be in a training process and dealing with defects from unexperienced workers. Fast food joints pay better wages and need no licence, mechanical ability, or any skill set whatsoever. Your store discount is worthless to someone that can’t afford to eat.

Note to self never purchase a firearm assembled by victory ridge sports.
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You should open a gun shop and show how it's done it better yet, just read the responses earlier of a few guys who said they'd love this opportunity if they lived closer.
If people can't afford to eat with this job maybe they won't apply?
Did you apply to dollar tree? Tell us why you wouldn't consider it? You should go work at dollar tree. Oh wait, maybe the wages aren't high enough so you can go cry to their store manager or whoever runs the hiring process like you run your mouth.

Slamming the few gun shops left is so low. They can just not apply if they don't like it, when you own a business you run it the way you want, not how some guy on a forum tells you to lol. Wtf. So many whiners. Soon you'll have no where to shop and you deserve it.
 
DeadShot519 said:
You want to pay far less than a livable wage
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A lot of emotional drivel for arguing your opinion. Whats a livable wage in 2026? In Northern On its $22 an hour, in North Toronto its $24. Make of that what you will. This is entry level with room to grow

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Brad243 said:
?? After deductions this is only 16 an hour? Bolded and underlined, but what is your point? Compare apples to apples then. Those other entry jobs that all pay the same are subject to the same tax deductions.
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it means that the employer isnt to blame the take home is terrible lol. for $28 an hour its $19 take home.

paying a livable wage and receiving a livable wage are significantly different things, in case people 40+ didnt know how things work now. If you dont have a child or handicap you get taxed 44+ percent of your money before leaving a store
 
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