SilencerBroker.com – New Lifestyle Silencer Sales Website
A lot of todos has been made recently about “Gun Culture”. With various companies hopping on the lifestyle branding and messaging bandwagon, especially in the silencer and NFA segments of the market, it’s been a welcome change to the previous hunting and self-defense only marketing that typified the firearms world for years. Various companies have used this successfully including SilencerCo, Springfield Armory, etc.
In that market launches SilencerBroker.com, which describes itself as: “SilencerBroker.com is an online marketplace for new and used silencers. It offers the silencer community – dealers, manufacturers, and consumers – an outlet to buy and sell silencers and silencer related products.”
This sounds relatively normal until one starts digging a bit deeper, where SilencerBroker starts pitching itself as a cultural ambassador – an unusual take on silencer and NFA sales:
“Everyone in the silencer industry understands that it has a culture of its own. Whether it is a deeper understanding of firearms, especially NFA, or more passion for the products and what they represent.
SilencerBroker.com provides an online platform that embodies that culture.”
Still, it certainly sounds interesting. Currently, NFA sales are conducted almost exclusively through the main gun sales websites like GunBroker.com; GunsAmerica, and others. Having an NFA-only website thrown into the mix is a good thing – as the NFA does take a bit more learning for compliance and ownership than standard firearms.
One of TFB's resident Jarheads, Nathan now works within the firearms industry. A consecutive Marine rifle and pistol expert, he enjoys local 3-gun, NFA, gunsmithing, MSR's, & high-speed gear. Nathan has traveled to over 30 countries working with US DoD & foreign MoDs.The above post is my opinion and does not reflect the views of any company or organization.
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Potentially a good idea, but there are only 4 cans on it so far. They will need to either have the best prices (difficult with map pricing), a super simplified process like silencer shop, or a great variety of options including hard to find and niche products.
The used market is hard, if I paid $800 plus tax stamp a few years ago for the latest and greatest, am I going to be ok selling for $350-400, or even less? They probably need to a way to group searches by state for used silencers on a form 4, to avoid the double stamp for out of state purchases (from your form 4 to a dealer, dealer form 4 to the purchaser). The buyer probably won't want to pay $400 in taxes alone plus transfer fees just to get your old specwar, and to make it worth while you will need to let your can go for a fraction of what you bought it for.
More power to them, we will see how it works out!
Let's limit the silencerbroker.com articles to one per week please!