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Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region

Sell your guns in Howell.

We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Livingston 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 — Howell, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
  • Confidential, discreet, secure transaction

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Buying in Howell and Livingston County

Livingston County holds 52 licensed dealers and no pawnbrokers at all, which says something about how guns move here.

Fifty-two licensed dealers across eleven towns and not one pawnbroker in the county. Firearms in Livingston change hands through dealers and between people who know each other rather than through the counter of a pawn shop, and estates reflect that — collections are more often intact, better kept, and assembled deliberately, not accumulated.

Livingston County holds 15 manufacturing licenses alongside its 52 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 Livingston 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 Brighton, Fowlerville, Pinckney, Hartland, South Lyon and Fenton — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.

Is Brighton the same trip as Howell?

Yes, and so are Pinckney, Hartland, Fowlerville and South Lyon. The whole county is inside an easy run for us and we would rather see everything in one visit than split it.

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 Howell

One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Livingston 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.

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