Gunbroker.com is an Atlanta, Georgia United States based auction website specializing in the sale of firearms. It was founded in 1999 by Steven F. Urvan, who serves as the CEO and Chief Technology Officer.[1] Its Chief Operating Officer is Donald Hall.[2] When eBay has changed its policies to prohibit the auction of firearms and firearm parts (such as barrels, magazines and trigger assemblies, essentially any part involved in the firing of a gun), thousands of gun and part auctions migrated to GunBroker.com. An Inc. Top 5000 [3] company, GunBroker.com is ranked by Hitwise as a top 3 site in the Auction format and is in the top 1000 of all websites as rated by Quantcast.[4] It is the Web's largest hunting and sport shooting auction site . The site currently averages more than 230,000 auction listings for firearms, parts and accessories each month.[5]
According to COO Hall;
"There has been a solid increase in the number of listings of all types of gun parts on GunBroker.com, especially in the days since the eBay announcement. We've also seen a jump in first-time visitors and buyers recently, and while I don't think the phenomenon is 100-percent attributable to eBay's withdrawal from firearms parts auctions, it certainly has had an impact."
The site attracts more than two million unique visitors each month and boasts over 1.25 million registered users.[6]
Founded in 1999, GunBroker.com sells none of the firearms listed on its Web site. Third-party sellers list items on the site, and every buyer or seller must be legally allowed to own firearms. Ownership policies and regulations are followed using licensed firearms dealers as transfer agents.[7]
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Gunbroker is the primary sponsor of NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Driver Jason White.[8] White pilots the no.23 GunBroker.com Dodge for GunBroker.com Racing. They also sponsor two other NASCAR trucks.[9]
In 2006 a firearm that had belonged to Hitler was auctioned for $140,000. Its value would have been in the $7,000 range absent the connection to the dictator.[10]
In 2009 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette incorrectly named Gunbroker.com as the source of the arms used by Richard Poplawski in the shooting of three police officers. The auction site denied the claim, and the paper later admitted its error and printed a retraction.[11]