Firearm estates, valued and bought in one visit.

How it goes

1. A phone call first

Ten minutes covers most of it — roughly how many, roughly what kind, and whether there is anything unusual that changes how we should handle it. It also tells you whether you need us at all.

2. We come to the house

You do not move anything. We catalog each firearm where it sits, photograph what matters, and tell you what each one is as we go.

3. A number, with the reasoning

A written list with a figure against each firearm, not a single total. On the pieces that carry the money we will show you how we got there. Keep the list and take your time — sell all of it, some of it, or none of it.

4. Paid, and the paperwork done properly

Everything is handled properly through our license, and you get a record of exactly what left the house.

If you are the executor

You get an itemized written list of what is there and what each one is worth, whether or not we end up buying anything. Use it however you need to.

Most of the money in an estate sits in a handful of pieces, and they are rarely the ones the family expects.

What we buy

Whole collections, not just the good pieces out of them. Modern sporting, military surplus, sporting shotguns, handguns, muzzleloaders, ammunition, optics, safes, and the accumulated boxes of parts that come with a lifetime of the hobby. One offer for the lot, and the job is finished in one visit.

What an estate valuation actually involves

The work is identifying each firearm properly, then establishing what that particular example, in that particular condition, is actually worth. Two guns of the same make and model can be worth very different money.

That means grading condition honestly, checking whether the gun is as it left the factory, and comparing against what similar examples have sold for rather than what people are asking for them online. Asking prices are advertising. Realized results are evidence, and they are what we show you.

It also means valuing everything, not just what is in the safe. Firearms tend to accumulate around a house over a lifetime, so it is worth gathering up anything you come across before we arrive.

You do not have to sell anything

Plenty of people call because they want to know what is there, not because they have decided to sell. That is a perfectly good reason to call, and the list is yours either way.

Anything to do with who inherits what, or how an estate should be settled, is for the family's attorney. We value firearms and we buy them — we will say so rather than guess at the rest.

Ammunition and everything else

Estates are never only firearms. There is almost always ammunition — often a great deal of it, sometimes decades old — along with optics, mounts, cases, cleaning equipment and a safe that weighs six hundred pounds and that nobody wants to move.

All of it has value and all of it is routinely given away or thrown out. We take it as part of the collection, including the safe, and including the awkward things. A family clearing a house has enough to deal with without arranging separate disposal for eleven hundred rounds of ammunition.

Old ammunition is not a problem. Leave it where it is and we will take care of it.

Before we arrive

• Do not clean anything. It is the fastest way to lose money in this process.
• Keep the boxes and papers. Original packaging and documents carry real value.
• Do not sort or separate anything. Value does not track how a gun looks, and the most valuable one in the house is regularly not the one that looks it.
• Leave the ammunition where it is. It does not need moving, sorting or disposing of before we look.

How long it takes, and what it costs

A collection of twenty to thirty firearms is usually a couple of hours at the house. Larger accumulations take longer, and genuinely large ones sometimes take two visits.

The valuation costs nothing, whether or not you sell, and there is no fee if you decide to do something else with the list.