Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Alpena.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Alpena County and the rest of Michigan. One firearm or four hundred — tell us what you have and we will tell you what it’s worth.
- An itemized offer in writing, not one number for the pile
- Cash offer, paid when you accept it
- We come to you — Alpena, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Alpena and Alpena County
Alpena County holds 16 licensed dealers concentrated into four towns on the Lake Huron shore.
A quarry and mill town with deep local roots, and the collections belong to families who stayed. Four towns for sixteen licenses makes this a concentrated little market, not a scattering, and estates here tend to be complete — guns bought locally over a working lifetime and never picked over.
Only 2 of Alpena County's 16 licenses are manufacturers. This is hunting country rather than building country, and what comes out of the cabinets reflects it — used guns, honestly worn, occasionally much better than they look.
What collections look like around here
Northern Michigan collections are built around deer camp and the lakes. Grand Traverse County holds 31 licensed dealers serving a much wider area than its size suggests, because people drive for an hour up here without thinking about it. Expect rifles and shotguns that have been used hard and honestly, and the occasional very good gun bought in a better year.
Estates in Alpena County
Cottages and camps are where northern estates get interesting. Firearms left at a family place are often forgotten entirely for a decade or more, and they’re also the ones most likely to have suffered from damp storage. Both facts are worth knowing before anyone agrees a price.
We also cover Ossineke, Hillman, Hubbard Lake and Lachine — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
No one in the family knows anything about guns.
That’s the usual situation and it costs you nothing. We identify each one, tell you what it is, and put a figure against it. You’re not expected to know what is in the cabinet.
Where to go next
Settling an estate ·Selling your own collection ·Closing a shop ·What sets the price ·You inherited firearms
One thing worth knowing before anyone looks at it, wherever you are: don’t clean it. A polished or re-blued gun can be worth a fraction of an untouched one, and it can’t be undone.
Tell us what you have in Alpena
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Alpena County. Tell us what you have and we’ll tell you what we’ll pay for it.
Would rather talk? Call or text (269) 399-4867 (399-GUNS). Photographs welcome.