Craxon
The world is littered with people who wanted to be in the gun business and tried. One problem is that a specialty is generally too special to generate enough cash flow to make a living, so they end up working two jobs and never get out of the old one.

I think the biggest question is whether you really love guns as a hobby or guns as a profession. If you are a professional, you have to cater to the desires of the customer, even if you don't agree.

I speak from experience, in a way, on this. I have a lot of interests/hobbies. One of my main loves for 25 years was photography, and I was pretty decent at it. I was totally involved in large format art and landscape photography. I won numerous regional and national awards and competitions over the years. I recieved several compliments on my work from "name" professionals in the field.

Most photographers, for some reason, suffer the malady of wanting to be professional on some level. I believe this is some form of psychological need for validation. I never suffered from this; however the job came to me. Over the span of a year, I recieved requests to do several commercial projects. I supplied the artwork for a bank remodel, a new Holiday Inn construction, and a calendar for a banking consortium. I made several thousand dollars in the course of the projects. I also was forced to spend hour after hour with customers who didn't even understand the pictures but were more worried with the color coordination between the print and the wallpaper. I would show them slide after slide of quality images, and they would pick the garbage of the litter to publicly display.

I found this so disheartening and frustrating that it was one big reason I lost interest in photography, eventually completely. I now don't even own a serious camera.

I think this is the first thing you have to decide. Do you love guns and shooting or do you really want to be in a shooting related business. If the first is true, you need to be absolutely sure that you can handle the tremendous downside of adjusting from an idealist viewpoint to a commercial one, and be certain that what you give up personally is worth the risk. A few people who are knowledgeable collectors and experts are able to carve out a niche market and balance the commercial and hobby aspects of the endeavor, but they are not many.