About
Why is it so hard to buy and sell guns?
Most classifieds charge a subscription. Gun stores offer 50% of used market value. Sellers and buyers are spread across hundreds of websites. No one wins.
So we built the thing we wanted: one search box that covers every Texas classifieds site and forum at once. Type what you are looking for, filter by city and price, and go straight to the listing on whichever site published it. No account. No subscription. No fee, to either side.
What we actually do
We are a search index, in the same sense that a flight meta-search is an index. Our crawler reads publicly visible listings from the Texas sites and forums below, normalizes them into one consistent shape, and makes them searchable together. That is the entire product.
When you click a result you leave for the source site. The seller is theirs, the listing is theirs, the conversation is theirs. We are not a party to it and we never see it.
What we deliberately do not do
This list is not modesty. Each item is a deliberate choice about what this site is, and we would rather be explicit than have you guess.
- We do not sell firearms. Nothing is bought, sold or transferred here.
- We do not host listings. Every listing lives on the site that published it, and we link back to it.
- We do not touch money. No payments, no escrow, no fees, no commission on anything.
- We do not pass messages. There is no chat here. You contact sellers on the source site, under its rules.
- We do not have accounts. Nothing to sign up for and nothing to log into.
Buying and selling firearms is governed by federal law and by Texas law, and both apply to you and the seller exactly as they would if you had found the listing yourself. Nothing on this site changes any of that, and nothing here is legal advice.
Where the listings come from
We index these sources today, 863 listings in total. Counts move weekly as sellers post and remove listings.
- TexasGunTrader 455
- GunBroker 151
- Texas Hunting Forum 149
- Texas Gun Talk 89
- Guns Texas Classifieds 19
- Armslist 0
- Texas Gun Shows 0
How we crawl
We honor robots.txt. Our crawler identifies itself
honestly as TexasGunFinderBot with a contact
address, rather than pretending to be a browser, because we would rather a site ask us to stop
than block us silently. We rate-limit every request, we store listing metadata and a thumbnail
rather than reproducing listing text, and every result links back to the source.
If you operate a source site and you want your listings out of the index, say so and we will remove them — no lawyer required, no argument. Send a removal request and we will action it.
Who runs this
Contact details are being finalised.