Armslist: The Marketplace for Guns That’s Standing Up for Your Rights

AmmoLand ^ | March 31, 2025 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Armslist is a national advertising medium for gun and accessories sales. It is much like Craigslist but focused on guns. AmmoLand was able to have an extended conversation with the owner and founder of Armslist, Jon Gibbon. Jon came up with the idea for Armslist when he saw how little gun stores were offering customers for used guns when he was a college student. Because many online advertising platforms discriminate against firearms advertising and sales, Gibbon believed a platform that featured advertising for firearms and accessories could make money. The economies of scale and the intrinsic efficiency of using digital instead of paper communications offered significant advantages.

Armslist is a means for buyers and sellers to communicate with each other. It does not sell firearms or accessories and does not compete against the sellers and buyers who use the platform.

Those who wish the population disarmed have attacked Armslist with frivolous lawsuits. Those lawsuits have failed.  The Wisconsin lawsuit failed under Wisconsin tort law. The lawsuit was probably unsound under federal law and likely a violation of First Amendment rights.

Fighting and winning these lawsuits was costly. Armslist, in effect, has shouldered the burden of protecting First and Second Amendment rights on the Internet without assistance from the NRA or other Second Amendment groups.

Gibbon never went into debt, even when his initial partner bailed at the first lawsuit and had to be bought out. Armslist continues to exist and grow, but they are banned from nearly all social media. This makes it difficult to get the word out about the service. This correspondent used Armslist several years ago. The deal was consummated without a hitch. The rifle was purchased from a private seller and was sent to a Federal Firearms License (FFL)

[marktwain]

Armslist offers a national way to advertise, sell, and buy firearms. Crossing state lines requires the sale to go through a Federal Firearms License.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

I’ve bought and sold several guns through them over the years. I don’t like their new policies however, they want too much information. That’s life in the new world I guess.

[rktman]

Yup! Been to the site several times. I don’t see a problem with them. Thanks Dean.

[marktwain]

Maybe it opens up an opportunity for another advertising service which does not collect so much information.

I’d like to see more competition in this area.

It is the lawfare from the left which has restricted the market.

[Big Red Badger]

Buy-Sell-Trade
.
I’ll give them A Try.

[circlecity]

It seemed like the amount of sellers on Armslist decreased dramatically about 4 years ago.

[Big Red Badger]

Gave Armslist a Peek
Seems interesting.
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[bobbo666]

Nice plan but fails in execution. There are no FFLs in CaCaLand. Gun stores refuse. My last individual FFL quit a year ago. The list on the WWW is like 99% gone — names are there but no one is home.

Getting gun/ammo into CaCaLand is like getting access to free platforms like Xitter in China.

[Big Red Badger]

That’s one reason I Left!
I wanted a Ruger ‘Charger’ since they First came out but Cali banned them.
I lived in a Dark cloud with my collection constantly be under attack.
I’m now in a Free ‘Copper State!’

[Texas Fossil]

Thanks for the link and article. I have never used that site.

I am on something similar

https://www.texasguntalk.com/

My screen name there is what my old one was on Twitter (X)

@TX_1

There are a lot of discussion on things outside of firearms.

Billy Dave Kittley, Jr.

[suthener]

I bought a S&W Equalizer today. Gun and 5 mags for $499. Also S&W has a rebate program and I just sent in the paperwork for them to send me a Viridian RFX15 Green Dot Reflex Sight (sells for about $250). This has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to brag.