Welcome to Gun Shop Guide. This is where the Gun Websites crew shares its gun shop reviews and adventures from years of Gun Show Loophole Tours: the small-town counters, the surplus stores, the ranges, the gunsmithing schools and the firearm museums worth the drive. Every review comes from a stop on the road, covering what the shop stocks, what it is like to walk in and whether it earns a place on the next tour.
A good local gun shop is where the Second Amendment is lived every day: where new shooters buy a first handgun, hunters gear up for the season and collectors find the piece they have been hunting for. Gun Shop Guide.com exists to help shooters find those shops.
Start here
Planning a trip, new to buying, or looking for a shop in a new state? The Where To Start page walks through it in order: finding a shop, reading the reviews, knowing the rules and planning the route. Or open the map and see every stop from the tours at once.
Firearm museums worth the trip
The other half of every Gun Show Loophole Tour: the collections that tell the story behind the guns on the rack, from the Brownings to the great Colt and Winchester collections.
National Firearms MuseumVirginia
John M. Browning MuseumUtah
J.M. Davis Arms & Historical MuseumOklahoma
Woolaroc Museum, Colt CollectionOklahoma
Los Angeles Police MuseumCalifornia
Cody Firearms ExperienceWyoming
Buffalo Bill Center of the WestWyoming
Springfield Armory National Historic SiteMassachusettsShops, ranges and museums
Gun Shop Guide Blog
Every shop, range and museum review, newest first.
Gun Shops by State
Shops the network has visited, listed state by state.
Surplus Stores
Military surplus stores worth digging through.
Shooting Ranges
Indoor and outdoor ranges, plus rental ranges.
Firearm Museums
Collections worth planning a trip around.
Gun Shop Tours
Multi-state road trips through the shops.
Featured reviews
- Brownells, Inc.: the gunsmith supplier founded in Iowa in 1939
- Rock Island Auction: one of the best-known firearms auction houses in the country
- Bass Pro Pyramid: the Memphis landmark turned outdoor megastore
- Scheels, Fargo: the sporting goods chain in its home town
- Cody Firearms Experience: shooting history hands-on in Cody, Wyoming
- Las Vegas Shooting Center: a big public range in Southern Nevada
Shooting group
Gun Shop Guide.com is part of the Shooting group of the Gun Websites Firearms Network, with Gun Show Reviews.com, Tucson Shooting.com and Nevada Shooting.com. Know a shop that belongs here? Suggest a Gun Shop.