{"id":86588,"date":"2018-01-30T18:45:15","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T23:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=86588"},"modified":"2018-01-30T18:45:15","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T17:06:57","slug":"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tapping into a previously-unknown market for cheap flamethrowers, Elon Musk managed to sell 15,000 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boringcompany.com\/flamethrower\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">Boring Company Flamethrowers<\/a>\u201d in less than three days to raise money for another project.<\/p>\n<p>The eccentric entrepreneur and billionaire best-known for an electric car company called \u201cTesla\u201d announced the sale on Twitter over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoring Company flamethrower guaranteed to liven up any party!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, he\u2019s been announcing pre-order sales every few hours, the latest report coming at 8:08am on January 30:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"und\">15k<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/958371267203145729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">January 30, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The gun itself is probably nothing more than an <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/1191685\/elon-musks-boring-company-flamethrowers-are-actually-overpriced-roofing-torches\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">over-priced roofing torch<\/a>, not an actual flamethrower. Still, Musk and his sales team have done their best to keep their pitch lighthearted and entertaining.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, buying a flamethrower is a super terrible idea. Definitely don\u2019t buy one,\u201d Musk joked on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/957476434800386053\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">Twitter.<\/a> \u201cUnless you like fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/the-xm42-flamethrower\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">The XM42 Flamethrower-What Freedom Looks Like<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>He also promised that the flamethrower \u201cworks against hordes of the undead or your money back!\u201d and responded to a \u201crumor\u201d that he\u2019s creating zombies to encourage flamethrower sales:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The rumor that I\u2019m secretly creating a zombie apocalypse to generate demand for flamethrowers is completely false<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/957494364028071936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\">January 28, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some people, of course, can\u2019t take a joke. When Musk first announced in December his plans to sell flamethrowers, he got his share of pushback:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.41-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a 0 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86589\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.41-PM.png\" alt=\"Elon Musk Made a 0 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\" width=\"694\" height=\"505\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.41-PM.png 694w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.41-PM-150x109.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.41-PM-400x291.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 694px) 100vw, 694px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>Musk also had to allay fears about the legality of his new product:<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.32-PM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Elon Musk Made a 0 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-86590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.32-PM.png\" alt=\"Elon Musk Made a 0 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\" width=\"648\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.32-PM.png 648w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.32-PM-150x69.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Screen-Shot-2018-01-30-at-6.40.32-PM-400x183.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 648px) 100vw, 648px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>The proceeds of the sales will support Musk&#8217;s &#8220;The Boring Company,&#8221; an aptly-named organization hoping to relieve traffic congestion by digging tunnels more cheaply and efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>After selling 50,000 hats to help fund the project, The Boring Company has already collected nearly $7.5 million in flamethrower sales.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ll begin shipping in the spring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tapping into a previously-unknown market for cheap flamethrowers, Elon Musk managed to sell 15,000 \u201cBoring Company Flamethrowers\u201d in less than three days to raise money for another project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":86591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,111,593],"tags":[132,607,620],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-86588","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-industry-news","9":"category-jordan-michaels","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tactical"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days - Authors\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Elon Musk Made a $500 Flamethrower and Sold 15,000 Units in 3 Days\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tapping into a previously-unknown market for cheap flamethrowers, Elon Musk managed to sell 15,000 \u201cBoring Company Flamethrowers\u201d in less than three days to raise money for another project.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/elon-musk-made-500-flamethrower-sold-15000-units-3-days\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-01-30T23:45:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-21T17:06:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flamethrower.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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