Posted on 05/24/2019 4:48:41 AM PDT by zeestephen
Lorenzo Maggiore never graduated high school. "I moved to Oxnard and surfed for three years." His parents were concerned, so Maggiore went to trade school and learned to hang wallpaper....But he always had this idea to make a gun to kill flies. "It’s fun, and it’s ridiculous," Maggiore says. "I couldn’t let it go." [The first 40 seconds of his original sales video is LOL amazing - "Bug-A-Salt" - link to it in the main story, or in Comment #1]
(Excerpt) Read more at cnbc.com ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oYl-Lm9a6U&=&feature=youtu.be
I bought one of the first ones when he first started a go fund me page.........It’s kinda fun but you have to be careful that you don’t shoot your eye out.
Back in the 1950s, I used to load a little bit of sand down the muzzle of my Daisey Pump BB gun and shoot flies that landed on my grandmothers front porch.
Too bad I never thought about being a “self-made millionaire” with my “invention”.
Oh, well - easy come, easy go.
An a-salt weapon to trigger liberals? I like it!
I have 2 of these...Love them.
Do they really kill the bugs?
I have one of these and its amazing.You can buy them at ace hardware and well worth the money.If you have ever been tormented by a fly in your house it can become a war to kill that bastard.This bug assault works as advertised and is alot of fun.You find yourself hunting them down.
Maggiore was trying to raise $15,000 to pay for one container of 7,000 Bug-A-Salt guns to be shipped from China.
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So he’s paying a little more than $2 per gun that he sells for $40, but complains that he couldn’t make it in the US because it would cost a bit over $10.
Oh yeah.I have taken out bees with the thing
“Do they really kill the bugs?”
Yes they do. Devastation varies on the range....
KYPD
Great link.
Thanks for posting.
The company now has around 20 employees based in Venice, California. For a guy who was used to working alone, managing others has been a challenge. “It’s just really hard to get people that are honest and hardworking,” he says. “When I was working by myself, it would just end and I could just be free. Now, there’s 9 million things to think about.”
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I remember Johnny Cash saying when you’re poor all you worry about is money;when you’re rich you worry about everything but money.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KoE08lrFhzY
LOL — Watch toward the end of this video and you’ll see a need for a SALT-MACHINE-GUN.
My son gave me one for my birthday. It really, really works; 1000x better than a swatter; well worth the price.
i might try it for carpenter bees.
the nasty little things torment me. Every year I get a male protector dive bombing me but can never find the nest.
The females bite into my porch trying to find a place to drill
What’s the range?
Flies are easy to kill, if you know how. No tools needed either.
Ooh, that sounds mysterious!
Do tell....
Thank you for posting the story.
I am an (aspiring) inventor and the story is inspiring.
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