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Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region

Sell your guns in Iron Mountain.

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

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Buying in Iron Mountain and Dickinson County

Dickinson County holds 12 licensed dealers in the western U.P. on the Wisconsin line.

Iron country on a state border, so collections here were bought on both sides of it and the paper trail runs through Wisconsin as often as Michigan. Mining and mill families who stayed for generations, which means guns that have been in the same house a very long time and were never picked over.

3 of the 12 licenses in Dickinson 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

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 Dickinson 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 Kingsford, Norway, Felch and Quinnesec — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.

We’re closer to Green Bay than to Detroit.

Most of this county is, and it makes no difference. We plan the U.P. as one trip and we buy in Wisconsin too.

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 Iron Mountain

One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Dickinson 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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