Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Holland.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Ottawa 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 — Holland, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Holland and Ottawa County
Ottawa County holds 76 licensed dealers, second only to Kent in west Michigan.
Those 76 licenses span thirteen towns. The lakeshore's hunting tradition runs deep and long, and Ottawa estates are notable for the quality of their shotguns — this is an area where families bought good guns and then looked after them properly.
21 of the 76 licenses in Ottawa County belong to manufacturers rather than plain dealers, a higher share than most. It shows up as custom barrels, rebuilt actions and gunsmith work, which take longer to price than catalog guns.
What collections look like around here
West Michigan is shotgun country before it’s anything else. Kent County holds 129 licensed dealers and Ottawa 76 — the two heaviest concentrations outside metro Detroit — and the collections reflect generations of bird hunting along the lakeshore and the river valleys. Good side-by-sides and over-unders turn up here more often than they do elsewhere in the state, often in far better condition than the family assumes.
Estates in Ottawa County
A lot of west Michigan estates come out of long-settled families where the same guns have been passed down twice already. That’s usually good news for condition and bad news for paperwork — the story of where something came from has often been lost, and it’s worth reconstructing, because provenance on an older gun can be a meaningful part of what it’s worth.
We also cover Zeeland, Hudsonville, Saugatuck, Grand Haven and Hamilton — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
These are just old shotguns. Are they worth looking at?
In Ottawa County especially, yes. This is a lakeshore hunting area where families bought good guns and looked after them, and 'just an old shotgun' is the description most often attached to the best piece in a collection. Side-by-sides in particular deserve a proper look before anything is agreed.
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 Holland
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Ottawa 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.