Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Lapeer.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout Lapeer 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 — Lapeer, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Lapeer and Lapeer County
Twenty-four of Lapeer County's 51 licensed dealers are manufacturers — very nearly half, and among the highest concentrations in Michigan.
Forty-seven percent of the licenses in Lapeer County are manufacturing licenses, which is remarkable for a rural county of nine towns. That density shows up directly in what comes out of estates here: custom rifles, gunsmith work, barrels and actions built instead of bought. Identification takes longer on a gun someone made than on one a factory made, and it’s often worth a lot more.
Lapeer County runs 24 manufacturers against 51 total licenses, a share almost nowhere else in Michigan matches. What that means in practice is bench work: barrels fitted, actions rebuilt, rifles made rather than ordered.
What collections look like around here
The Flint, Saginaw and Bay area holds a lot of firearms and a lot of dealers — Genesee County alone has 74, including fourteen licensed pawnbrokers, which is among the highest counts in Michigan. That mix means guns here have often changed hands several times locally, and condition varies enormously from one house to the next.
Estates in Lapeer County
Deep hunting traditions in this part of the state mean gun cabinets are rarely small. Estates here regularly run to twenty or thirty firearms, most of them working guns with a few surprises buried in the middle.
We also cover Attica, Dryden, Metamora, Almont, North Branch and Imlay City — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
My father built his own rifles. Is that worth anything?
Often a lot, and it depends entirely on who he was and how well he worked. Lapeer County has twenty-four licensed manufacturers, so we look at gunsmith work here regularly. Bring any paperwork, receipts or photographs of the bench with 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: 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 Lapeer
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Lapeer 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.