“Every problem is a gift — without problems we would not grow.” – Anthony Robbins
More and more women are buying handguns these days. They prefer especially small weapons that can easily be hidden or concealed. There are women who start their own companies to offer products tailored to women’s needs.
Women Starting Firearm Companies
Lorelei Fay from Boise, Idaho, started sewing corset-style holsters and selling them in 2014. She opened her own company called Miss Concealed. Fay is sure women want to protect themselves. Both men and women don’t want to be victims.
Fay says she started selling her holsters on eBay. She called her holstered corsets Hidden Heat and offered them at $30 to $50. Soon, Fay had a great success.
Fay had to hire more sewers (seven) as her revenue jumped to $200.000 in 2015. Orders grew even more after a mass shooting in San Bernardino, which resulted in 14 deaths in December 2015.
In January 2016, the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s SHOT Show took place in Las Vegas. Fay stopped taking orders for some time, as the sewers couldn’t keep pace with new orders. Interestingly, Fay wasn’t the only woman entrepreneur representing the modern gun market at the SHOT Show.
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Modern Gun Industry
Leslie Deets is the founder of Concealed Carrie, a startup offering firearm-centric handbags. With her husband, Deets co-owns Sharp Shooters USA in Roswell, Georgia.
Handbags offered by Deets contain concealed holsters for small handguns. She is the designer of her clutches, purses, satchels, and compacts. Deets makes them both fashionable and useful to provide quick access to hidden guns, pepper spray, and conducted electrical weapons or Tasers. These products are be sold at up to $229, but Deets also offers free replacements.
Tessa Renaud, an obstetrician/gynecologist from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has also started her own self-protection business. She designs a line of lace flexible wraps. These items can be fastened to the body with the help of metal clips.
Renaud was also present at the SHOT Show. Her booth featured a lace-wrapped mannequin like a mummy, which had replica guns tied to its legs, arms, and torso. At the SHOT Show, Renaud and her husband, Mike, launched a new wrap holster designed for men.
About 2 years ago, the Renauds launched Lethal Lace. They offer wrap holsters at $58. In 2015, the couple sold one thousand products that counted for $25.000 in December alone.
The modern firearm industry is growing and reshaping. Self-defense is serious business for many women.