Anyone who is legally allowed to own an item is allowed to buy or sell it here. The following information is not intended to be a complete guide to all applicable laws. It is your responsibility to be in compliance with all Federal, state, and local laws when using this site.

What does legally allowed mean? You must be an adult who is able to enter into a contract. Anyone desiring to purchase a firearm must be able to pass a background check ( Click here for the ATF web site for more information ). There are age limits on the sale of certain items. And certain types of items are illegal in certain places - for example 'assault weapons' cannot be sold in California and certain types of ammunition are illegal in certain states and cities.  The NRA also has put together a terrific state-by-state gun laws guide. The ATF has compiled information on the various state laws; click here to view this information. Again, it is your responsibility to make sure that you comply with the laws of your country, city, and state. We do not tolerate attempted illegal activity here!

You do not have to be a licensed dealer to sell a firearm. By Federal law, the person to whom you ship the gun must be a licensed dealer. If the buyer is not a licensed dealer, the buyer must make arrangements with a licensed dealer in his state to receive the firearm and transfer it to the buyer. We have very in-depth information on shipping firearms legally on our Firearm Shipping Guide page. Never, under any circumstances, ship a firearm without following the steps on the Firearm Shipping Guide page! Shipping illegally is a felony and will earn you a one-way ticket to prison.

Non-firearm items, such as air guns, knives, ammunition, antique guns that were built in 1898 or earlier, accessories, and some gun parts do not require transfer by a licensed dealer. There are age restrictions on many of these items, and you must verify the age of the buyer (typically by requesting a Xerox copy of the buyer's driver's license) before selling the item to the buyer. In general, you should not sell anything to a buyer under 18 years old. To buy Pistol ammunition, the buyer must be at least 21 years old; at least 18 years old for Rifle ammunition. Please refer to our Firearm Shipping Guide for information on shipping ammunition, gun parts, and antique firearms.

International sellers: click here for information on importing firearms into the US.

If you are a licensed dealer, we offer a Free Package of Services designed to help you sell firearms online and promote your business. If you have a Web site of your own, you can Link to Your Auctions on GunBroker.com.

Basic auction listings on GunBroker.com are free of charge unless the item sells. If the item sells we charge a final value fee that is based on the selling price of the item. As add-ons to the basic listing we make available optional services designed to offer premium placement and draw more attention to the listing. If a seller does not wish to take advantage of these optional services, items can be listed without incurring any fees. We charge no prelisting 'insertion' fees and have no 'membership' fees. For full details on our fees navigate to our Fees page.

In a nutshell, you list your item and bidders browse our listings, find your item, and place bids on it. If a user wins your item by meeting or exceeding your price criteria, you must sell the item to the buyer. There is only one exception to the 'must sell' rule: if selling the item to the buyer would violate some law. As the seller, you specify the conditions of the sale including the length of time the auction will run, the payment methods you accept (money order, credit cards, check, COD, etc), the method of shipping and cost for shipping, return policy (if any), and any other pertinent terms. Typically the buyer will prepay for the item by money order (depending on your payment terms). When payment has been received, you ship the item to the buyer's FFL Holder.

There are two ways this can be accomplished:

1. If the item has not been bid on or if the Reserve Price has not been met, you can use our End an Auction function located in For Sellers to close your auction listing before its scheduled completion date. If the item currently has a winning bidder, you must consider it to be sold and must use the 2nd option.
2. You can direct any interested parties to the auction listing on GunBroker.com and suggest that they bid on the item.

Please always keep in mind that if the item is won here, it must be sold to the winning bidder. Although it is a harsh remedy, we terminate the accounts of seller who fail to complete transactions.

Our auction contains a good selection of categories. When listing your item, you should post it in the most appropriate category. To find the most appropriate category, we have a Category Description page that contains a list of the categories and explains what types of items are appropriate for that category.

If your item is posted in the wrong category, we will move or remove the listing. We also do not allow posting the same item in multiple categories to get more attention. For example, if you have a whole lot of holsters, post them in the 'Accessories' category and do not create entries in Pistols, Revolvers, etc.

When you post an auction listing, you can set a Starting Bid and/or a Reserve Price.

A Starting Bid is the least amount a bidder is allowed to bid in an auction. As the name implies, it is where bidding starts. No bidder can place a bid lower than the Starting Bid. If an auction has a Starting Bid and no Reserve Price, the high bidder on the item will win the item at auction close. Every auction has a Starting Bid, even if the Starting Bid is $.01.

A Reserve Price is the least amount you will sell the item for. The Reserve Price is kept secret from the bidders. A bidder can place a bid that is lower than the Reserve Price, but the item will not be sold unless bidding meets or exceeds the Reserve Price.

Reserve Price auctions are very unpopular with bidders. We receive daily complaints about them. We suggest that you set your Starting Bid to the least amount you will take for the item and let the bidding start. If you have priced your item fairly, you are likely to receive a higher price than your Starting Bid.

If you set a Reserve Price, we strongly suggest that you set a Starting Bid equal to at least 1/2 of the Reserve Price or you will very likely get complaints from bidders that you are wasting their time.

You can optionally specify a BuyNow! price on your (non-Dutch) auction. The BuyNow! price is publicly displayed in the item listing. If you specify a BuyNow! price any bidder can elect to give you that price and immediately end the auction, making the bidder the winner of the item. Entering a BuyNow! price allows the bidder to decide to buy the item immediately instead of bidding and waiting for the auction to end.

One potential down side of BuyNow! pricing is that you will never get a higher price for the item than the BuyNow! price, since bidders will elect to exercise the BuyNow! price instead of bidding above it.

You cannot set a BuyNow! Price on a Dutch auction.

The BuyNow! price is not like a Starting Bid nor a Reserve Price in that the BuyNow! price does not affect the minimum amount an item can be won for. If you want to guarantee that you will get a certain amount for an item you must use a Starting Bid or Reserve Price.

Dutch auctions are a special format in which the seller has multiple identical items to sell. The bidder can bid on anywhere from one item to the available quantity of items. At the auction close, all winning bidders win their items at the lowest winning bid price.

For example, you may have five copies of Stephen King's 'The Stand' (on videotape) to sell. Each copy of 'The Stand' is three videotapes together as a set. In the auction listing, the quantity posted will be 5, and the Starting Bid is the least amount that can be bid for each item.

You cannot set a Reserve Price on a Dutch auction.

You can list an item for sale by navigating to the List an Item form located on the For Sellers page. Listing an item is a three-step process. In the first step, you can upload a picture (if you have one). After the picture upload, you fill in the auction parameters including Starting Bid, Reserve Price, Item Title, Item Description, etc. In the third and final step, you review your item listing to make sure it is correct, check the fees that will be assessed (if any) and submit the item when you are satisfied it is correct.

By far the #1 thing you can do to make your listing appealing is to add a picture. Our new listing process simplifies the picture hosting immensely.

If an item has not been bid on, you can edit the item listing. You can change the pricing information, move the item to a different category, or upgrade your listing to use some of our optional services. To edit your item, use the Edit your Listing function located on the For Sellers page. Once an item has been bid on, you can no longer edit it.

You can always add to an item listing, whether the item has been bid on or not. You can add a picture or additional information at any time. Your additions will be clearly time and date stamped. You should not use this to try to substantially alter your listing; doing so will cause the listing to be invalid. For example, if you list an item as a .45 caliber and then realize that it is 9mm, you should create a new listing rather than trying to make this large a correction. To add to your item listing, use the Add to Description function located on the For Sellers page.

Our auction site automatically keeps track of items you have bid on, listed for sale, sold, and won. You can access your My Auctions page by navigating the link located at the the top of any page. The My Auctions page contains tabs that you can click on to see the various views of your items. You can select a time frame to further specify the items that you wish to see. For example, to see all items that you sold in the last two weeks, you click on the 'Items I Sold' tab, then select 'Ended in Last Two Weeks' from the 'What auctions would you like to see?' drop-down menu and click the 'Go' button.

There is a special tab called 'Watch List' on your My Auctions page. All items in this list are managed by you. You can add items to this list and remove items from the list. To add an item, click on 'Add this item to your Auction Watch List' located in any item listing. That item will be placed on your Watch List. To remove an item navigate to the My Auctions page, select the 'remove' checkbox(es) of the item(s) you wish to remove, and click the 'Remove Selected Items' button.

If your item was sold, we send you an email at the end of the auction that contains the buyer's user name and email address along with your winning bid amount. If you think you have sold an item and did not get your notification, you may have changed email addresses without telling us or we may be unable to send you your notification due to technical problems with your ISP. Always check the 'Items I Sold' section of your My Auctions page to see if you have sold an item. If you have sold an item and did not get your notification, please request help by navigating to our Help Center.

From the time the auction closes you have a maximum of five (5) days to contact the buyer at the email address located in the notification we sent you. The buyer must contact you as well within the same five days. If you do not receive a response from the buyer within the five days, please check the 'What if I have problems with a buyer?' section of this tutorial.

You should send the buyer clear instructions on making payment. Always include your name, address, phone number, the item number of the auction, the name of our site (GunBroker.com), and your email address. Clearly state what forms of payment (check, money order, etc) are acceptable. If the item was a firearm, remind the buyer that he must send you a copy of his transfer dealer's FFL license, signed in blue or red ink. If you require proof of age for non-firearm items, request that information.

Once payment has been made, you can ship the item. Please refer to our Firearm Shipping Guide for instructions on ways to ship firearms, ammunition, and other special items.

If you cannot get in touch with the buyer within the five-day window, you do not receive payment in a timely fashion, or you are having some other problem with the buyer, please navigate to our Resolving Problems with the Buyer wizard located on the For Sellers page. The wizard will help you get the issue resolved.

At the complete of your transaction, you should post feedback on the buyer. Feedback lets other users know how the seller handled his transaction with you. You can submit feedback using the Submit Feedback form located on the For Sellers page.

When posting feedback, please be honest and unemotional about the transaction. Posting 'the buyer is a jerk' is not very helpful or informative. Posting 'the buyer contacted me promptly but took three weeks to send payment' is informative and truthful.

The buyer gets the chance to reply to your feedback, and you can post a follow-up to his response. To view another user's feedback, use the View User Feedback function located on the For Sellers page. While reviewing the user's feedback, you can delete or change the feedback you posted on that user or post a follow-up to his response.

Items that did not sell can be relisted free of charge at the same level of options. We offer two ways for you to relist items that did not sell.

To quickly relist multiple items exactly as they were before, you can use the Bulk Relist Items function located on the For Sellers page. This function allows you to select one or more items from a list of closed auctions and relist all of them with a single mouse click.

To relist an item and change its parameters ( for example, to lower your Reserve Price or change its description ), you can use the Relist Item with Edit function located on the For Sellers page.

You can end an auction at any time; however, you must sell the item to the winning bidder if there is a winning bidder when the auction is closed. There is no way to 'withdraw' an item after it has a winning bidder.

Ending an auction early is generally not a good idea if bids have been placed on the item. If there is a winning bidder at the time the auction is closed, you are obligated to sell the item to the winning bidder. Additionally, since many bidders wait until the last minute to place a bid, ending an auction early may reduce the amount you will receive for the item.

To end an auction early, navigate to the End an Auction Early function located on the For Sellers page.

You can view your account balance, check your month-to-date activity, and print past statements by navigating to the Account Status function located on the For Sellers page.

Sellers are required to place a credit card on file before you can list items for sale. Any fees you incur will be accumulated throughout a calender month and then billed to your credit card on file on or about the 6th of the following month. For example, if you sell and item in January your credit card will be charged on the 6th of February.

If your credit card fails to authorize you will not be able to list additional items until you use Place a Credit Card on File on our For Sellers page to update your card on file. If your card fails to authorize your account must be paid promptly; past due users will be suspended from using the site until the balance has been paid in full.