Bw Outfitters

the population of anita, iowa is about 1,100 people. brad wendt’s “little old” gun shop is attached to the back of his brother’s lumberyard and hardware business, but even after the third add-on, the place is busting at the seams with the 5,000-gun inventory and six employees brad keeps busy processing, packaging, and shipping the guns he sells on gunbroker.com. he says, “we’re up to about a $10 million a year business, and 80-85 percent of that is on gunbroker.com.” things are growing so fast, brad’s added a new, bigger location in denison, iowa that opened just before christmas, 2014. the self-description in the “about us” section on their website at bwoutfitters.net as “up and coming” doesn’t even scratch the surface. bw outfitters keeps between 600 to 700 listings active on gunbroker.com with a high percentage of those being new guns he acquires from the four distributors he works with. because of his large volume of sales, he’s quickly become a preferred dealer and that allows him