Hello there new to the community. Disabled Afghan vet here. Im looking to sell my rifle. A popular firearms website is offering me less than half of what it currently goes for and it is in fairly new shape, same with my handgun. It is better to go to a brick and mortar establishment or is there a place online that can help me get closer to what its worth without getting taken for a ride. Thank you.
If you become a paid member, you can advertise your guns for sale here: https://njgunforums.net/c/marketplace/guns-and-accessories-for-sale-or-trade/26
@Mzagorski - welcome to the NJ Gun Forums community.
You can post your items for sale here after you spend a little time and have some activity on the forum that allows you to reach âTrust level 2â per these rules:
This is mainly to prevent spammers from blowing up our marketplace.
Hang around a little bit, meet the minimal activity requirements and then please feel free to post up the details of what youâd like to sell.
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Gunbroker is hit or miss, you may get way more than you hoped for, or fall short of expectations. It is an auction site after all.
LGSs will give you about 30% less than what a gun is worth if you sell it to them outright. Some LGSs will let you sell on consignment with a buyers premium, the premium can overprice a gun and turn off buyers.
You can sell here after you have a certain amount of participation, the site does this to roadblock scammers and spammers. Participation builds trust, as a vet, you may have a lot of firearms experience that many here would benefit from.
You can skip the participation by making any donation to the forum. Donations help keep the light on, but they also verify the member through the transaction.
Thank you for your service, and I hope you will become a regular here at NJâs best firearms community.
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I wasnât looking to sell a gun on this site as I thought it was a forum for discussion and the like, but I was flagged immediately from trying to sell from asking my initial question. Whoops. I donât know if I trust online really, I may be better off going local. I am in the Roselle area, can anyone recommended a store locally that would give me good value?
Also, if anyone is local to me, I frequent RTSP and guns for hire. would like to make some friends who appreciate some range time.
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Because we donât know/trust you 
Maybe you should have opened your original post as such, that you are not looking to sell here but just looking for advice on where to sell.
As others have mentioned you wonât get the most through a local gun shop (as they need to make money as well) and you will pay some type of commission or fee through listing sites. You are likely to get the most from a person to person social connection such as through sites like this. Stick around and socialize a bit. Iâve only had this site up for just over a year but have met and shot with several members.
I am a member at RTSP and shoot there weekly. Want to join me sometime let me know.
@Mzagorski Gun forums are a popular target of scammers, unfortunately we need to moderate new member access to the marketplace, or posting anything that can be considered an offer to sell firearms, just for a small amount of time until a new member has interacted with the forum community. It is a minimal âgetting to know youâ period, before members are allowed to sell guns.
While the forumâs new member policies can be a minor inconvenience, they are necessary to protect buyers and sellers alike. We hope you understand why these speed bumps are implemented.
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If you sell through the forum, you wouldnât be selling online in the conventional sense, since the transfer has to go through a Federal Firearms License holder, that is, a gun shop or someone who is in the business. You would only be identifying a buyer online. Once a sale price is agreed upon, you and the buyer would meet in person at the gun shopâyou can either specify in your ad which one you want to use, or how far you are willing to drive to a shop. The buyer then looks over the gun(s) at the shop, hands you the cash, and you leave. The shop then runs the federal background checkâwhich might take more than a day-and only hands over the gun(s) to the buyer when the approval comes back. If you browse the for sale threads here, youâll see examples of how it is done.
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You basically canât legally ship a handgun without being a FFL dealer anymore. UPS and FedEx will not allow you to ship a firearms without being a FFL and having a firearms shipping account setup. I believe you can ship a long gun by USPS without being a dealer but you definitely canât ship a handgun with them if you are not a FFL. Let me know what you have and I maybe able to help you out since I am a FFL.
Thanks,very informative!