Statement by Uncle Rudy's (Lengthy, posted in entirety for those without Facebook) :
To our Valued Customers:
We have had to make the hard decision to cease business operations at the end of the year. We have looked at all options to keep us going but the market is so fluid right now we felt it best to just close our doors gracefully.
This has been an extraordinarily difficult past few years. COVID, Supply issues, economic indicators… costs just keep rising and we can’t make the math work. We had hoped we would get a flood of new memberships when we announced our new membership programs, but that didn’t save us either.
As many of you know, we started this business to serve the public and provide a place to enjoy a safe shooting experience. Unfortunately, sales never got to where we needed them to be in order to be fully sustainable. The short of it is that I have put as much personal funds as I can into this business and unfortunately it is time to cut my losses.
This is not by any measure a joyous decision, as while we have provided a great service and touched many lives in positive ways, we are failing many of you as well by not being able to continue on. There are multiple new operators coming into the market to enjoy shooting sports, and we wish them all the best.
Here’s what you need to know as we close out our business operations by 12/31.
WE HAVE SHORTENED OUR HOURS UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY 10-6
SUNDAY 12-5
CLOSED MONDAY AND TUESDAY
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 12/31? WILL YOU STILL BE OPEN?
Officially, our last day of business will be 12/31. We will be closed officially after that date. Rudy will be running limited hours and will post them on our website and facebook and will be available by appointment for any FFL or NFA item pickup until formal transfers to another location are made. We will communicate directly with you on those items.
WHAT IF I NEED TO REACH YOU BETWEEN NOW AND 12/31, OR AFTER YOUR CLOSE DATE?
Your best bet to reach us is via email at store@unclerudys.com after our closing date. Be sure to use a subject line relevant to your contact. We have a ton of spam emails that come through and we don’t want to miss your message. Please, be kind and patient as we deal with everyone. See below about membership questions or refund requests.
WHAT ABOUT MY SUPPRESSOR? WHEN/HOW CAN I GET IT?
We will be in communication with you directly on your suppressors as we receive your tax stamp. We are working with the ATF now and will keep our FFL open to service all transfers until all Tax Stamp Items are transferred. We do have a few tax stamps we are waiting on customers to pick up. We will be posting a list of current suppressors ready to pick-up on our website (unclerudys.com) at our home page in the coming days, just in case you haven’t received the phone calls or other from us.
The following are ready for pickup as of 12/13/22:
First Initial/Last Name first 2 Letters or First 3 Letters of Trust Name:
J/BO
TUR
J/BO
M/RO
A/LA
REG
OME
22S
WHAT ABOUT INCOMING ONLINE TRANSFERS?
We are ceasing accepting any new FFL transfers from online vendors. Any existing orders you may have already purchased prior to receiving this email are still valid and we will facilitate those transfers. Additionally, we will be happy to do any custom orders with our suppliers until 12/20 to ensure we receive them before we close. Please if shopping online after today, have your FFL item sent to another area FFL after today. As much as we appreciate the business, we don’t want to have any more transfers than necessary after our closed date.
WHAT ABOUT MY MEMBERSHIP? DO I GET A REFUND?
This is the hardest thing for us to deal with right now. Many of our members were some of our first clients. We appreciate you more than you can ever know. We are not fully solvent to make good on all of our debts, and unfortunately, we must make sure secured debts are paid first before we can move on to unsecured debts. The law treats prepaid memberships and gift cards as unsecured debts. We are working on a solution that we hope you will appreciate and will announce that as soon as we can. My heart sank when our legal counsel told me this fact. Be patient with us. I am going to do whatever I can to make you whole.
All monthly memberships have ceased automatic billing after December 5, when we made the internal decision to close. It’s taken us an additional week to get our plan of action on how to handle some of these more difficult decisions. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot, by law, offer a refund for memberships.
WHAT ABOUT GIFT CARDS OR PUNCH CARDS?
We ceased selling gift cards and new memberships as soon as we decided to close internally. If you have a gift card, we will honor all gift cards until our closing date. After 12/31 they will no longer be valid or redeemable. We’ve always honored our gift cards with no expiration date, however this is an extraordinary time for us, so for obvious reasons we cannot offer any compensation for gift cards after 12/31. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot, by law, offer cash refunds for gift cards.
SUMMARY..
I know you’re going to have questions, and unfortunately we may just not have a good answer for you on the question you have. You can reach out to us at the store email, store@unclerudys.com or you can call us during our limited office hours, Wednesday-Saturday, 10-6, Sunday 12-5 until 12/31.
Again, thank you for your support over these years. It’s been a pleasure serving all of you. We look forward to the new gun ranges moving into the Evansville market. My father always said, “John, you can lead, follow, or get out of the way”. We’ve been an industry leader in this town since we opened our doors with firearms instruction. Following, unfortunately isn’t economically feasible, so we are going to gracefully get out of the way and make room for the next industry leaders to make their mark here in the Evansville shooting sports community.
With Gratitude and Humility,
John Rudolph
or as my niece and nephews will always call me,
Uncle Rudy
Uncle Rudy's
To our Valued Customers:
We have had to make the hard decision to cease business operations at the end of the year. We have looked at all options to keep us going but the market is so fluid right now we felt it best to just close our doors gracefully.
This has been an extraordinarily difficult past few years. COVID, Supply issues, economic indicators… costs just keep rising and we can’t make the math work. We had hoped we would get a flood of new memberships when we announced our new membership programs, but that didn’t save us either.
As many of you know, we started this business to serve the public and provide a place to enjoy a safe shooting experience. Unfortunately, sales never got to where we needed them to be in order to be fully sustainable. The short of it is that I have put as much personal funds as I can into this business and unfortunately it is time to cut my losses.
This is not by any measure a joyous decision, as while we have provided a great service and touched many lives in positive ways, we are failing many of you as well by not being able to continue on. There are multiple new operators coming into the market to enjoy shooting sports, and we wish them all the best.
Here’s what you need to know as we close out our business operations by 12/31.
WE HAVE SHORTENED OUR HOURS UNTIL THE END OF THE YEAR.
WEDNESDAY-SATURDAY 10-6
SUNDAY 12-5
CLOSED MONDAY AND TUESDAY
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER 12/31? WILL YOU STILL BE OPEN?
Officially, our last day of business will be 12/31. We will be closed officially after that date. Rudy will be running limited hours and will post them on our website and facebook and will be available by appointment for any FFL or NFA item pickup until formal transfers to another location are made. We will communicate directly with you on those items.
WHAT IF I NEED TO REACH YOU BETWEEN NOW AND 12/31, OR AFTER YOUR CLOSE DATE?
Your best bet to reach us is via email at store@unclerudys.com after our closing date. Be sure to use a subject line relevant to your contact. We have a ton of spam emails that come through and we don’t want to miss your message. Please, be kind and patient as we deal with everyone. See below about membership questions or refund requests.
WHAT ABOUT MY SUPPRESSOR? WHEN/HOW CAN I GET IT?
We will be in communication with you directly on your suppressors as we receive your tax stamp. We are working with the ATF now and will keep our FFL open to service all transfers until all Tax Stamp Items are transferred. We do have a few tax stamps we are waiting on customers to pick up. We will be posting a list of current suppressors ready to pick-up on our website (unclerudys.com) at our home page in the coming days, just in case you haven’t received the phone calls or other from us.
The following are ready for pickup as of 12/13/22:
First Initial/Last Name first 2 Letters or First 3 Letters of Trust Name:
J/BO
TUR
J/BO
M/RO
A/LA
REG
OME
22S
WHAT ABOUT INCOMING ONLINE TRANSFERS?
We are ceasing accepting any new FFL transfers from online vendors. Any existing orders you may have already purchased prior to receiving this email are still valid and we will facilitate those transfers. Additionally, we will be happy to do any custom orders with our suppliers until 12/20 to ensure we receive them before we close. Please if shopping online after today, have your FFL item sent to another area FFL after today. As much as we appreciate the business, we don’t want to have any more transfers than necessary after our closed date.
WHAT ABOUT MY MEMBERSHIP? DO I GET A REFUND?
This is the hardest thing for us to deal with right now. Many of our members were some of our first clients. We appreciate you more than you can ever know. We are not fully solvent to make good on all of our debts, and unfortunately, we must make sure secured debts are paid first before we can move on to unsecured debts. The law treats prepaid memberships and gift cards as unsecured debts. We are working on a solution that we hope you will appreciate and will announce that as soon as we can. My heart sank when our legal counsel told me this fact. Be patient with us. I am going to do whatever I can to make you whole.
All monthly memberships have ceased automatic billing after December 5, when we made the internal decision to close. It’s taken us an additional week to get our plan of action on how to handle some of these more difficult decisions. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot, by law, offer a refund for memberships.
WHAT ABOUT GIFT CARDS OR PUNCH CARDS?
We ceased selling gift cards and new memberships as soon as we decided to close internally. If you have a gift card, we will honor all gift cards until our closing date. After 12/31 they will no longer be valid or redeemable. We’ve always honored our gift cards with no expiration date, however this is an extraordinary time for us, so for obvious reasons we cannot offer any compensation for gift cards after 12/31. Unfortunately, at this time we cannot, by law, offer cash refunds for gift cards.
SUMMARY..
I know you’re going to have questions, and unfortunately we may just not have a good answer for you on the question you have. You can reach out to us at the store email, store@unclerudys.com or you can call us during our limited office hours, Wednesday-Saturday, 10-6, Sunday 12-5 until 12/31.
Again, thank you for your support over these years. It’s been a pleasure serving all of you. We look forward to the new gun ranges moving into the Evansville market. My father always said, “John, you can lead, follow, or get out of the way”. We’ve been an industry leader in this town since we opened our doors with firearms instruction. Following, unfortunately isn’t economically feasible, so we are going to gracefully get out of the way and make room for the next industry leaders to make their mark here in the Evansville shooting sports community.
With Gratitude and Humility,
John Rudolph
or as my niece and nephews will always call me,
Uncle Rudy
