GunBroker.com
Encyclopedia
Gunbroker.com is an Atlanta, Georgia
United States
based auction website
specializing in the sale of firearm
s. It was founded in 1999 by Steven F. Urvan, who serves as the CEO and Chief Technology Officer. Its Chief Operating Officer is Donald Hall.
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 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. 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.
According to COO Hall;
The site attracts more than two million unique visitors each month and boasts over 1.25 million registered users.
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.
Camping World Truck Series Driver Jason White
. White pilots the no.23 GunBroker.com Dodge for GunBroker.com Racing. They also sponsor two other NASCAR trucks.
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.
Atlanta, Georgia
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United States
United States
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based auction website
Website
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specializing in the sale of firearm
Firearm
A firearm is a weapon that launches one, or many, projectile at high velocity through confined burning of a propellant. This subsonic burning process is technically known as deflagration, as opposed to supersonic combustion known as a detonation. In older firearms, the propellant was typically...
s. It was founded in 1999 by Steven F. Urvan, who serves as the CEO and Chief Technology Officer. Its Chief Operating Officer is Donald Hall.
When eBay
EBay
eBay Inc. is an American internet consumer-to-consumer corporation that manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide...
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 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. 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.
According to COO Hall;
The site attracts more than two million unique visitors each month and boasts over 1.25 million registered users.
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.
NASCAR Sponsorship
Gunbroker is the primary sponsor of NASCARNASCAR
The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing is a family-owned and -operated business venture that sanctions and governs multiple auto racing sports events. It was founded by Bill France Sr. in 1947–48. As of 2009, the CEO for the company is Brian France, grandson of the late Bill France Sr...
Camping World Truck Series Driver Jason White
Jason White (NASCAR)
Jason White is the driver for the #23 GunBroker.com Chevy Silverado for Joe Denette Motorsports in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series. He has been racing in NASCAR since 1999.-Beginnings:...
. White pilots the no.23 GunBroker.com Dodge for GunBroker.com Racing. They also sponsor two other NASCAR trucks.
News and Controversy
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.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
2009 Pittsburgh police shootings
The 2009 Pittsburgh police shootings was a shootout that took place on Saturday, April 4, 2009, at 1016 Fairfield Street in the Stanton Heights neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, stemming from an argument over a dog urinating in the house between a mother and her 22-year-old...
. The auction site denied the claim, and the paper later admitted its error and printed a retraction.