Gun Ads USA Interview with Blake Cornish
Gun Shows for November 7th – November 9th, 2014
The twenty-sixth episode of the Gun Show Trader Podcast. Featuring an interview with Blake Cornish from GunAdsUSA.com. Also gun shows in the United States and Canada for November 7th – November 9th, 2014 will be covered.
Podcast Notes:
Introduction
About Jason
About Chris
Interview
Gun Ads USA interview with Blake Cornish
Gun Shows
Atlanta International Military Show – Marietta, Georgia
Bearing Arms Eau Claire Gun Show – Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Beckly Gun Show – Beckley, West Virginia
Clear Lake Fire Dept Gun Knife and Military Show – Clear Lake, Wisconsin
LaGrange Gun, Knife and Outdoorsmen Show – Howe, Indiana
Slinger Gun Show – Slinger, Wisconsin
ACSWW Gun Show – Vancouver, Washington
Indian Art and Frontier Antique Show – Ann Arbor, Michigan
Evansville Tri-State Gun Show – Evansville, Indiana
Gibraltar Mt Clemens Gun Show – Mt Clemens, Michigan
Huntington Gun & Knife Show – Huntington, West Virginia
Mason City Gun Show – Mason City, Iowa
Waukesha Expo Forum Gun Show – Waukesha, Wisconsin
Alhambra Shriners Gun & Knife Show – Chattanooga, Tennessee
Austin Gun Show – Austin, Texas
Ballinger Gun, Knife & Hunting Show – Ballinger, Texas
Bloomington Gun Show – Bloomington, Illinois
Boise Gun Show – Boise, Idaho
Capital City Gun Show – Jackson, Mississippi
Cincinnati (Sharonville) Gun Show – Sharonville, Ohio
Columbus Eastman Gun Show – Columbus, Georgia
Concord Gun Show – Concord, North Carolina
Crossroads Sacramento Cali Gun Show – Sacramento, California
Denver Gun Show – Denver, Colorado
Douglas Gun Show – Douglas, Georgia
Dove Fest Gun Show – Hamilton, Texas
East Canton Gun Show – East Canton, Ohio
Eastlake Gun Show – Eastlake, Ohio
Ferndale Gun Show – Ferndale, Washington
Firing Pin Cottonwood Gun Show – Cottonwood, Arizona
Florida Sportsman Expo – Jacksonville, Florida
Fort Payne Gun Show at the Fairgrounds – Ft Payne, Alabama
Franklin Gun Show – Franklin, North Carolina
Frederick Gun Show – Frederick, Maryland
Ft Payne Gun & Knife Show – Ft Payne, Alabama
GGA Ennis Gun Show – Ennis, Texas
Greater Gulf State Gun & Knife Show – Mobile, Alabama
Greengrass Antique & Modern Arms and Collectables Expo – Penrith, New South Wales
Hillsboro Gun and Knife Show – Hillsboro, Oregon
Houston GRB Gun & Knife Show – Houston, Texas
Jackson Gun & Knife Show – Jackson, Tennessee
Kingsport Gun & Knife Show – Kingsport, Tennessee
Kokomo Gun Show – Kokomo, Indiana
Lakeland Florida Gun Show – Lakeland, Florida
Las Vegas South Point Casino Gun Show – Las Vegas, Nevada
Lebanon Gun Show – Lebanon, Missouri
Leon Boles Gun, Knife & Coin Show – Cisco, Texas
Liberty Seguin Gun Show – Seguin, Texas
Littlestown Gun Show – Littlestown, Pennsylvania
Mesquite Rodeo Gun Show – Mesquite, Texas
Naples Gun Show – Naples, Florida
New Albany Sporting Arms & Blade Show – New Albany, Indiana
Oklahoma City Gun and Knife Show – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Orlando Gun Trader Gun Show – Orlando, Florida
Pennsylvania Gun Collectors Gun Show – Butler, Pennsylvania
Placerville Gun Show – Placerville, California
SCACA Columbia Gun Show – Columbia, South Carolina
Shreveport Gun Show – Shreveport, Louisiana
Socorro Lions Craft, Collectable and Gun Show – Socorro, New Mexico
Split Rock Gun Show – Lake Harmony, Pennsylvania
Springville Gun Show – Springville, New York
Tacoma Dome Gun Show – Tacoma, Washington
VGCA Manassas Gun Show – Manassas, Virginia
Viera Gun Show – Viera, Florida
WAC Monroe Gun Show – Monroe, Washington
Wanenmacher’s Tulsa Arms Show – Tulsa, Oklahoma
West Palm Beach Gun & Knife Show – West Palm Beach, Florida
Western Collectibles Globe Gun Show – Globe, Arizona
Wilmington Firearm & Knife Show/Sale – Wilmington, Massachusetts
Yakima Gun Show – Yakima, Washington
Zanesville Gun Show – Zanesville, Ohio
News
Associated Press: California startup unveils gun technology for cops
BreitBart: DEM REP: FORT HOOD PROVED GOOD GUYS WITH GUNS DON’T STOP BAD GUYS WITH GUNS
BearingArms: Virginia Open Carrier Is SWATted By Known Gun Control Loon
Closing
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Gun Ads USA Interview with Blake Cornish
I was had a great opportunity for a Gun Ads USA Interview with Blake Cornish. They are a startup company supporting the firearm enthusiast community via a firearm and gun accessory website. It’s a great site with amazing features and a great, affordable marketplace.
Be sure to check it out.
You can listen to the whole interview on the Gun Show Trader Podcast: Episode 26. The audio is available to download on iTunes.
Gun Ads USA Interview Transcript
J.S.T. Andrews: I have with me here today Blake Cornish from Gun Ads USA. How are you doing today, Blake?
Blake Cornish: I’m doing great. How’re you doing, Jason?
I’m doing well, thank you. We reviewed your website last week a little bit, and I have to say it is a wonderful website. It’s a little bit between Craigslist and eBay put together, where you sell firearms and like products and accessories. You wanna tell us a little bit about your site?
Well, you kinda wrapped it up right there. It’s gunadsusa.com, and about a year ago, my partner – my brother and I – we were talking about a conversation we had with another guy who sells ammunition online, and he basically got banned from advertising on Google.
Google and Bing and all those other big, giant sites are basically anti-second amendment. So, we kind of joked around and said “You know what, we should start our own Google and be friendly 2nd Amendment,” and that’s how we kind of came up with it, and then we kind of whittled that down to gunadsusa.com, and I know there’s other sites out there that are strictly auction or strictly classified, so that’s why we kind of came up with a hybrid of both, so to give you both options.
On your site you can list firearms and accessories and stuff, but what other products can you actually list on your site?
So basically, you can list anything from firearms to archery, hunting equipment, camping equipment, knives, survival equipment, gun dealers can go on there and open up storefronts and have unlimited listings. You know, if you’re a shooting range you can put ads up there, taxidermists, gunsmiths, ammunition… basically, you know, there’s thousands and thousands of options of things that you can list for sale on our site.
You mentioned that a gun dealer is able to go on your site and list things, so is an individual able to go on there and list multiple listings if they’re a private seller?
Yes. An individual seller can go up there and have up to ten items at a time, with two free pictures per listing. Yes.
And then, to go past that, there’s a subscription fee for that?
Yeah, and you’re looking at anywhere between $20 and $30 dollars for the subscription fee, depending on what level of package you choose and how long the subscription is. If you do month-to-month it’s going to be a little bit more, if you do 12 months you’ll get a break.
If you want a storefront versus just a business account, it’s gonna be a few dollars extra a month. A storefront basically kind of gives you a link on the front page, and then you can have a direct link that goes to it and advertises it, and put it on your own website, as well, if you wanted to do that.
With the storefront, are they able to list the firearms for an extended amount of time with the storefront, rather than just doing the seven day listing?
Yes, we can extend it up, I believe we can extend it up to a year.
Oh, that’s great.
Yeah, absolutely.
Even people – individual, private sellers – that aren’t FFL dealers, they can get that subscription as well, correct?
Absolutely, you know. If you’re an individual and you’re kind of a hobbyist or enthusiast and you have more than 10 items you want to sell, sort of like you would on eBay, we can just set up a subscription and you can have unlimited listings, as well.
We also mentioned before that someone can – you can have ammo dealers and taxidermy as well as services. What other services are people allowed to list on your site?
Well, like taxidermy, gunsmithing, firing ranges, and we have a little separate pricing for those guys, as well, or gals. It’s only about 3 dollars a month, because you’re not gonna have a ton – if you’re a gunsmith, you know, you’re not gonna be putting up a ton of ads, you’re just gonna maybe be putting up 1 or 2 ads, advertising your services. Same way with taxidermy or even shooting ranges. You might put up some specials here and there, but generally you’re not gonna put up 10,000 ads like maybe a gun dealer would.
When I was poking around on your site last week, I noticed there’s a couple different ways to search for the services and products. Could you explain that a little bit?
Well basically, you can either search by region or you can do a national search. Is that what you were referring to?
Yeah, if you go by region can you go as far as your city, or does it go by state?
Yeah. We drew it down by state and then city, and some places it’s also county. It’s just depending on how densely populated an area is, you know. So, if it’s a kind of rural area, we’ve kind of broken into like, kind of more county areas.
Kind of like the way Craig’s List has it, to where you can click on certain areas, so like, Lakeland would include everything around
