GunTV Offers Live Shopping for Weapons

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GunTV Offers Live Shopping for Weapons

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As gun sales surge in the wake of mass killings, one group of entrepreneurs means to take advantage of it. GunTV is among America’s new cable channels. Its programs will be on air soon, and these will be based on selling guns and offering education. The company that owns the channel claims it will launch before the end of the year.

GunTV’s operators go so far as to say the channel has benefits for the country:

The Social Responsibility Network’s GunTV live shopping channel is scheduled to launch in fourth quarter 2015, and will include a line-up of firearms and related consumer outdoor products and programming broadcasting live on satellite systems Nationwide.

It will also operate with sound business principles:

The GunTV live shopping channel will provide unique content and a wide range of firearms and related product and services to a scale television and social media Internet audience working with manufacturers and federally licensed firearms dealer business partners in the nation to provide seamless fulfilment and customer service, and give manufacturers measurable ad spend ROI.

With the GunTV Sales Channel, sales data is tracked in real time giving the firearms industry actual return on investment information in the form of hour by hour ratio of dollars spent to advertise on the GunTV Sales Channel to sales made.

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GunTV will potentially offer a wide range of product, which includes ammunition and firearms. The guns will be screened, presumably for sales potential. It is likely GunTV will ban illegal firearms, if it wants avoid the chance it will be shut down. GunTV management says it will be back to people who want to get their products visibility in two to four weeks.

GunTV will reach 85 million households, which does not mean anything unless people in those households turn the station on:

GunTV will engage America’s 85+ million outdoors men and women and owners of more than 270 million guns in the USA with world class television shopping content, broad selection of firearms and related consumer goods, original programming, gun safety, personal security and self defense education.

As gun sales reach record levels, the channel might get more than a few people to tune in.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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