What is GunBroker.com

GunBroker.com is an auction site where sellers can list items for sale and potential buyers can browse the listings and bid on the items. If you bid on the item and win it, you and the seller contact each other and make arrangements for payment and delivery of the item you won. We are very much like the classified ads in a newspaper in that individual sellers post the items for sale and individual buyers purchase the items. Unlike classified ads, the auction manages the sale process, provides a convenient form of communication between buyer and seller, and offers rich, varied, and up-to-date information on the item being sold (often including a picture).

An important note: GunBroker.com does not sell any of the items listed on this auction site. All items are listed by third-party sellers. We feel that selling items and running the auction would be a considerable conflict of interest.

Anyone who is legally allowed to own an item is allowed to buy or sell it here. There are laws regarding the sale and transfer of firearms, ammunition, antique guns, knives, and many of the other items for sale here. Our Buyer's Tutorial contains information on how to buy items legally. Our Seller's Tutorial contains information on how to sell items legally.

You must Register with us to bid on or sell items. Registration is free, safe, and private. We do not share your registration information with any third party and we do not send you junk email - please see our Privacy Policy for details. Click here to proceed to our our registration form.

Sellers - Please read our Seller's Tutorial for information on how to sell an item through GunBroker.com.

Buyers - Please read our Buyer's Tutorial for information on how to bid on and buy an item through GunBroker.com.

You can Register to use our site free. There are no fees to bid on or buy an item (of course, you must pay for the item itself). Sellers can place basic auction listings free of charge and there are no fees for basic listings unless the item sells. When placing an auction listing we offer some optional services for which we do charge a small fee. Please refer to our Fees page for full details on our fees.

GunBroker.com is committed to your safety. We are the only shooting sports related online auction that offer Fraud Insurance to protect the buyer from being ripped off by a seller. No other shooting sports auction or classified ads (in print or offline) provides any form of protection against fraud.

Complaints about a buyer being defrauded by a seller are extremely rare at GunBroker.com due to the steps we take to keep potentially malicious users off this site. In spite of our excellent track record and our Fraud Insurance, there are several suggestions we make to guard against problems:

The United States Federal Trade Commission provides some free information for auction users. Please see their publications entitled  Internet Auctions : A Guide for Buyers and Sellers and Internet Auctions: Secrets of Success

We are committed to the safety and privacy of your personal information. Our Privacy Policy explains how we safeguard your personal information and how we keep it safe from hackers and thieves.

First, we recommend that you Register with us. Since we email you a registration code that must be used to activate your account, we recommend that you register now instead of waiting until you wish to bid or sell and item. This way, if there is any problem we can fix it now before you miss an item you want to bid on.

If you have not done so, read our Seller Tutorial and/or Buyer Tutorial so that you understand how our auction works.

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