I got to wondering about this, a thought bought on by the wait times for repair different outfits have.
People seem to assume that the "big" gunmakers are like the "big" car makers, and have thousands or tens of thousands of employees.
I don't think this is the case. I think the big guys (S&W, Ruger, Remington, etc) have a few hundred, perhaps several hundred, but not thousands, even counting office workers and clerks.
Does anyone know, and have rough figures? Don't need precision, just wondering if, for example, S&W employs 300, 600 or 800 people or 2K+ kind of numbers.
Also would be interested in rough percentages of how many are actual shop floor workers vs management/sales types.
If, for example, you have 800 on your payroll, but only 250 are shop workers, and all but as few doing production work, not repair, some wait time seems inevitable.
Anyway, just looking to satisfy my curiosity, people seem to think the big gun makers have armies of employees like GM or Ford, so there ought to be no, or very little wait, but I don't think this is the case.
Anyone know?
Thanks.
People seem to assume that the "big" gunmakers are like the "big" car makers, and have thousands or tens of thousands of employees.
I don't think this is the case. I think the big guys (S&W, Ruger, Remington, etc) have a few hundred, perhaps several hundred, but not thousands, even counting office workers and clerks.
Does anyone know, and have rough figures? Don't need precision, just wondering if, for example, S&W employs 300, 600 or 800 people or 2K+ kind of numbers.
Also would be interested in rough percentages of how many are actual shop floor workers vs management/sales types.
If, for example, you have 800 on your payroll, but only 250 are shop workers, and all but as few doing production work, not repair, some wait time seems inevitable.
Anyway, just looking to satisfy my curiosity, people seem to think the big gun makers have armies of employees like GM or Ford, so there ought to be no, or very little wait, but I don't think this is the case.
Anyone know?
Thanks.