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Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region

Sell your guns in Midland.

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

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Tell us what you have. Private, and we come to you.

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Buying in Midland and Midland County

Midland County concentrates 29 licensed dealers into only five towns, most of them in Midland itself.

Five towns holding 29 licensed dealers, and seventeen of those licenses are in Midland alone — one of the most concentrated markets of its size in the state. Estates here are often more deliberate than rural collections: guns bought new from a local dealer, kept indoors, and often with the box and paperwork still in the cupboard. That paperwork is worth more than most families expect.

With 29 licenses and just 6 manufacturers, Midland County deals in working guns. The value in an estate here is usually condition, plus whichever older piece somebody happened to look after properly.

29 licenses packed into 5 towns makes this a genuine trading center rather than a thin spread, and collections here were usually assembled close to home.

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 Midland 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 Coleman, Sanford, Auburn, Hope and Edenville — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.

We still have the boxes and the receipts.

Keep them and put them with the guns. On the right firearm the original box, papers and hang tag are a real fraction of the total, and they’re the first thing people throw out when clearing a house.

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 Midland

One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in Midland 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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