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Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region

Sell your guns in Kalamazoo.

We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Kalamazoo County and the rest of Michigan. One firearm or four hundred — tell us what you have and we will tell you what it is worth.

  • Free appraisal, and you keep the numbers either way
  • Cash offer, paid when you accept it
  • We come to you — Kalamazoo, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
  • Confidential, discreet, secure transaction

Find out what it's worth

Free, no obligation, and we keep it private.

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Buying in Kalamazoo and Kalamazoo County

One of the larger firearms markets in west Michigan, with a long history of guns bought, traded and handed down through families here.

Kalamazoo County holds 34 licensed dealers across eight towns, and the city has long been the trading hub for a much wider rural area — people come in from Van Buren, Allegan and St. Joseph counties to buy and sell. Estates in the city often contain guns bought locally over decades from shops that no longer exist, which makes the paper trail thin and the identification work more interesting.

What collections look like around here

South-west Michigan runs from the Indiana line up through farm country, and the collections match: working guns, mostly, kept and used rather than collected. Plenty of deer rifles, plenty of shotguns, and a steady undercurrent of genuinely old material in the farmhouses — muzzleloaders, early lever actions, and single-barrel shotguns that were somebody's only gun for forty years.

Estates in Kalamazoo County

Rural estates in this part of the state are routinely deeper than the family expects, because guns accumulate in outbuildings and closets rather than in one safe. It is worth going through the whole house properly. We have found more than one rifle worth serious money in a cardboard box in a barn.

We also cover Portage, Oshtemo, Comstock, Parchment, Richland and Vicksburg — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.

Do you buy from the townships as well as the city?

Yes — Oshtemo, Comstock, Portage, Texas Township and Richland are all the same trip. A collection sitting in a Richland pole barn is no harder to look at than one in a Kalamazoo basement, and the county's 34 licensed dealers are spread across all of them.

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: do not clean it. A polished or re-blued gun can be worth a fraction of an untouched one, and it cannot be undone.

Tell us what you have in Kalamazoo

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