Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Ann Arbor.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Washtenaw 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 — Ann Arbor, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County
Washtenaw County collections often include inherited pieces from elsewhere in the state, brought here as families moved.
Washtenaw holds 37 licensed dealers across nine towns, fourteen of them manufacturers. The university has drawn people here from across the country for generations and the estates show it — Washtenaw collections are among the most geographically varied in Michigan, often containing guns bought in other states long before the owner ever moved.
Washtenaw County holds 14 manufacturing licenses alongside its 37 total. That is enough bench work in the area that custom and gunsmithed pieces turn up in ordinary estates here more often than the population would suggest.
The county has no licensed pawnbrokers at all — worth noting, because a pawn counter is where the good pieces usually leave a collection before anybody else sees it.
What collections look like around here
The Lansing, Jackson and Ann Arbor corridor mixes university towns with old industrial and farming communities, and the collections split the same way. Jackson County holds 45 licensed dealers and Washtenaw 37. There’s a lot of inherited material here that arrived from somewhere else in Michigan as families moved for work, which makes for unusually varied estates.
Estates in Washtenaw County
Estates along this corridor often contain guns from several different parts of the state at once, which is exactly the situation where a blanket offer costs a family money. It’s worth having each piece looked at instead of the collection weighed as a lot.
We also cover Ypsilanti, Saline, Dexter, Chelsea and Manchester — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
Half of these were bought out of state.
Common here, and it doesn’t change what they’re worth — only occasionally how a sale is handled. Washtenaw draws people from across the country and the collections follow them in, which makes local estates among the most varied in Michigan. Worth mentioning up front if anything came from somewhere with unusual rules.
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 Ann Arbor
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Washtenaw 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.