Licensed firearms dealer · Michigan and the Great Lakes region
Sell your guns in Sturgis.
We buy firearms, collections and estates throughout St. Joseph 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 — Sturgis, anywhere in Michigan, and across the region
- Confidential, discreet, secure transaction
Buying in Sturgis and St. Joseph County
St. Joseph County sits on the state line, so estates here often involve family in Indiana.
The county holds 18 licensed dealers across seven towns. Sitting directly on the border has one practical consequence for an estate: heirs are often split between Michigan and Indiana. Worth establishing at the outset, because it changes how a transfer has to be handled.
With 18 licenses and just 2 manufacturers, St. Joseph County deals in working guns. The value in an estate here is usually condition, plus whichever older piece somebody happened to look after properly.
No pawnbroker holds a license anywhere in the county. Guns here move dealer to dealer or hand to hand, and estates are correspondingly more complete than in places with a pawn counter on every other corner.
What collections look like around here
The southern border counties sit close enough to Indiana that a lot of buying, selling and trading has always happened across the line. Berrien County alone holds 40 licensed dealers. Collections here are mixed and often well-traveled, and it isn’t unusual for a gun in a Michigan estate to have been bought in South Bend or Elkhart.
Estates in St. Joseph County
Border estates often involve heirs living out of state, which is the single most common complication we see down here. It’s worth raising early, not discovering it at the point of transfer, because moving firearms across a state line has its own rules and they aren’t the ones that apply within Michigan.
We also cover Three Rivers, White Pigeon, Constantine, Centreville and Colon — and the rest of Michigan besides. If you have something worth looking at, distance is our problem, not yours.
The family is split between Michigan and Indiana.
The most common complication in St. Joseph County, and the one worth raising first. It changes how an estate is handled instead of what it’s worth, and it’s far easier to sort out at the start than halfway through. Say so when you write and we’ll tell you what it means.
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 Sturgis
One firearm or the whole cabinet, anywhere in St. Joseph 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.