Gun Depo & Equipment Center · Margate, Florida
A licensed FFL dealer and gunsmith in Margate — for people who would rather not spend a Saturday morning waiting behind eleven strangers at a counter.
Form 4473, the Florida state background check, a function check and thirty days of storage. No card surcharge, and no fee that appears once you are at the counter.
Evenings and Sundays are ordinary appointments here, not a favour.
Florida's Second Amendment sales tax holiday runs four months this year — firearms, ammunition and accessories, exempt from state sales tax. What is covered →
A flat $35 for an inbound firearm transfer in Margate, and $20 for each additional firearm in the same shipment. That price includes ATF Form 4473, the Florida state background check, a function check and thirty days of storage. No card surcharge, no separate check fee.
Twenty-one, for any firearm bought from a Florida dealer — rifles and shotguns included, not only handguns. People routinely assume eighteen is fine for a long gun because that is the federal rule. In Florida it is not.
Margate, Florida 33063, by appointment, seven days a week from 8am to 9pm. Five minutes from Coconut Creek, ten from Coral Springs. The street address comes with your appointment confirmation. Telephone (305) 741-1351.
One person, working by appointment, out of a licensed premises in Margate. That is not a limitation we are apologising for. It is the entire reason the experience is better.
Of the thirteen federal firearms licensees in Margate, almost none will tell you what a transfer costs until you are standing in front of them. We think that is the tell. Here is ours, in public, where you are welcome to hold us to it.
Florida law caps the state background-check fee a dealer may charge at eight dollars per transaction. We do not bill it separately — it is inside the thirty-five.
Fla. Stat. § 790.065(1)(a)2Prices effective August 2026 and published here first. If they change, this page changes.
GunBroker, Palmetto State, Brownells, Bud's, a forum classified, your cousin in Tamarac — it makes no difference to us. At checkout, name us as the receiving dealer and give them our licence. Most retailers keep licences on file already; if yours does not have ours, tell us who they are and we will send it across the same day.
Send us the tracking number and we will watch for it.
The firearm goes into our bound book the day it arrives, and you hear from us the same day — not when somebody gets around to it. Then you choose a time. Evenings and weekends are ordinary appointments here, not a favour.
You complete ATF Form 4473 in person and we submit your background check to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which runs seven days a week from nine in the morning until nine at night. FDLE reports that 96 per cent of transactions are approved and 98 per cent resolve within minutes.
Bring a government photo ID showing your current address. The checklist is on the appointments page.
Before you leave we clear it, look it over with you, and make certain nothing was damaged in transit. If something is wrong you will find out standing here with us, rather than at the range on Saturday.
Our federal licence is a Type 01 — dealer in firearms, gunsmith privileges included. In plain English: we can sell you a gun, receive one for you, and work on the one you already own.
Any source, any dealer, any private seller, at the same flat price, with the state check included and no storage clock running against you.
No showroom means no showroom markup. We come back with the actual distributor cost and add a flat fifty. You see the invoice and you decide.
Mounted level, torqued to specification, boresighted before it leaves. Forty dollars for an optic, thirty for sights, twenty-five for a muzzle device.
Detail strip, clean, inspect, lubricate, reassemble, function check. Fifty for a pistol, seventy for a semi-automatic rifle. You are told what we found, honestly.
Shops here quote as much as twenty, then add appraisal fees and a penalty if you change your mind. We take fifteen and you keep the difference.
Whether or not you buy anything. Ring and ask what the law actually says. Worst case we tell you we are not the right dealer and name somebody who is.
Open when you are
actually free.
It happens constantly in South Florida and almost no dealer markets to it, because it is slow, it is sad, and there is no impulse purchase at the end of it. We will come to that conversation without a stopwatch running.
We can identify what is there, tell you honestly what it is worth, transfer what you are keeping into your own name properly, consign what you are not, and make certain the one nobody in the family wants leaves the house lawfully — rather than sitting in a closet for another decade because no one knew who to ring.
We share postal codes with Coconut Creek and North Lauderdale, and we are a short run up or down the Turnpike from most of north Broward.
Roughly ten minutes east on Sample or Wiles. Coral Springs buyers are the largest single group we see, usually because the alternative is a queue and a two-tier membership price.
Five minutes, and we share the 33063 postal code with part of it. If you are near the Promenade you are closer to us than to any storefront dealer.
Twelve to eighteen minutes depending on the Turnpike. Worth the run for an evening appointment when everywhere else shut at five.
We are an appointment-only licensed premises rather than a walk-in storefront, so we do not publish the street address. You will have it the moment your appointment is confirmed. It keeps things orderly for us and private for you.
The full shipping details, including our licence, are on the appointments page, ready to hand to a dealer or a private seller. Tell us before it ships so we know to expect it.
Tell us what is coming in and when you are free. If it is easier simply to ring, the number reaches a person rather than a menu.