Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Lansing.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Ingham 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 — Lansing, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Lansing and Ingham County
Ingham and Eaton counties together hold 76 licensed dealers across the capital area.
Ingham County holds 39 of those across eleven towns. State employment has meant a relatively mobile population for generations, and one consequence shows up consistently in estates: Lansing collections often contain firearms that arrived from elsewhere in Michigan, or from out of state entirely, rather than being bought locally.
9 of the 39 licenses in Ingham 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.
There is not one pawnbroker licensed in the county. Firearms change hands through dealers and between people who know each other, which tends to mean collections arrive intact rather than picked over.
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 Ingham 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 East Lansing, Okemos, Holt, Grand Ledge, DeWitt and Charlotte — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
These came from somewhere else in Michigan. Is that a problem?
No, and it’s the norm here. State employment has kept the capital area unusually mobile for decades, so Lansing collections are often assembled from wherever the owner lived before. It makes for varied estates and makes a blanket offer a poor idea — the pieces genuinely do come from different markets.
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 Lansing
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Ingham 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.