Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Houghton.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Houghton 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 — Houghton, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Houghton and Houghton County
Houghton County anchors the Copper Country, with 19 licensed dealers across six towns.
Mining country, and the collections show it: guns that came over with immigrant families, rifles bought from company stores, and a lot of hard use in hard winters. The Keweenaw is a planned trip, not a same-week one, and it wants to be worth the drive for both of us — but what is up here is often older and better kept than people expect.
Roughly a quarter of Houghton County's 19 licenses — 5 of them — are manufacturing licenses. Collections here tend to include at least one gun that somebody worked on rather than bought, and those are the ones worth slowing down over.
No pawnbroker holds a license anywhere in the county. Guns here move dealer to dealer or hand to hand, and estates are correspondingly more complete than in places with a pawn counter on every other corner.
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 Houghton 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 Hancock, Calumet, Lake Linden, Chassell and South Range — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
Do you really come this far north?
For a collection worth the drive, yes, and we’ll tell you plainly whether yours is before either of us commits. Send photographs and a rough description. If it isn’t worth the trip we’ll say so and tell you what we would do instead.
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 Houghton
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Houghton 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.