Incoming from anywhere
The core of the business. Any source, any dealer, any private seller, at the same flat price, with the state check included and no storage clock running against you.
By appointment · Seven days · Broward County
Buy it anywhere.
Buy it anywhere.
Collect it here.
A licensed dealer and gunsmith working by appointment in Margate — for people who would rather not spend a Saturday morning waiting behind eleven strangers at a counter.
- Transfer fee
- $35 flat, all in
- Appointments
- Seven days, 8am–9pm
- Notice on arrival
- Same day, by text
- Licence
- Type 01 — dealer & gunsmith
Levelled, torqued to specification, thread-locked and boresighted before it leaves the bench.
Plate I
1 Sept – 31 Dec 2026
Florida's Second Amendment sales tax holiday runs four months this year — firearms, ammunition and accessories, exempt from state sales tax. If you have been putting a purchase off, this is the window. What is covered →
§ I · Why people drive past four gun shops
Everything people hate about buying a
Everything people hate about buying a
gun, removed on purpose.
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.
The usual complaintWhat happens here
“They only take transfers on guns they sold you.”
We accept every transfer. Any dealer, any online retailer, any private seller.
“My gun sat in their back room for a week and nobody called.”
You get a text the same day it lands. Not a voicemail. Not eventually.
“Ten to five, Monday to Friday. I have a job.”
Seven days a week, 8am to 9pm, by appointment. Sundays included.
“The price on the website wasn't the price at the counter.”
Thirty-five dollars is thirty-five dollars. The state check is inside it.
“Four men behind the counter and not one of them looked up.”
There is one of us. You get the same person every time, by name.
“The fellow at the shop told me something that turned out to be wrong.”
We cite the statute. If we do not know, we say so and go and look it up.
§ II · The whole price list, on the front page
Thirty-five dollars.
Thirty-five dollars.
That is the number.
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)2Transfers & handling
All in · no add-ons
Inbound transferFrom any dealer, online retailer or private seller
$35
Each additional firearmSame shipment, same appointment
$20
Private party transferBoth parties present, full paper trail
$35
Estate & inheritancePer firearm, $25 after the first
$35
Outbound transferPlus the carrier's actual cost, shown to you
$50
State background checkSubmitted by us, seven days a week
included
Storage, first thirty daysNo daily fee. No rush. Life happens.
included
Card surchargeThere is not one
none
Prices effective August 2026 and published here first. If they change, this page changes.
§ III · The procedure
Four steps. Usually under twenty
Four steps. Usually under twenty
minutes at the counter.
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Buy the gun wherever it is cheapest
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.
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We log it in and text you that day
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.
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The paperwork and the state check
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. We will walk you through every box on the form, properly, without sighing.
Bring a government photo ID showing your current address. The checklist is on the appointments page.
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Function check, and then it is yours
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.
§ IV · What we do
A dealer and a gunsmith,
A dealer and a gunsmith,
under one licence.
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.
i · Transfers
ii · Ordering
Special orders at cost plus fifty
No showroom means no showroom markup. Name the make and model, we come back with the actual distributor cost and add a flat fifty. You see the invoice. Nobody steers you toward the best margin.
iii · Gunsmithing
Optics, sights & muzzle devices
Mounted level, torqued to specification, boresighted before it leaves. Forty dollars for an optic, thirty for sights, twenty-five for a muzzle device. The written quote is free, always.
iv · Service
Deep cleaning & inspection
Detail strip, clean, inspect, lubricate, reassemble, function check. Fifty dollars for a pistol, seventy for a semi-automatic rifle. You are told what we found, honestly, including the parts you would rather not hear.
v · Consignment
Sold on your behalf at fifteen per cent
Shops in Florida quote as much as twenty, then add appraisal fees and a penalty if you change your mind. We take fifteen, photograph it properly, list it, handle the transfer, and you keep the difference.
vi · Counsel
Straight answers, free
Whether or not you buy anything. Telephone and ask what the law actually says. The worst case is that we tell you we are not the right dealer for the job and name somebody who is.
§ V · Estates & inherited firearms
Somebody has died and left you guns.
Somebody has died and left you guns.
Nobody tells you what to do next.
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.
Florida law is specific about who may receive a firearm and when, including a hard twenty-one-and-over rule on any purchase from a dealer. We will tell you exactly where you stand before you drive anywhere.
§ VI · Who you are actually dealing with
One licence. One person.
One licence. One person.
One telephone number that gets answered.
Tier 1 Tactical Gun Depo and Equipment Center is a federally licensed Type 01 dealer and gunsmith working by appointment in Margate. The licence number is printed at the head of every page on this site, because you ought to be able to check it — and because a dealer who will not show you theirs is telling you something.
There is no counter to lean on and nobody to hide behind. Which means the paperwork is done properly, the telephone is answered, and if we make a mistake you will know exactly whose it was.
- Licence type
- 01 — dealer in firearms, gunsmith privileges
- Licence number
- 1-59-011-01-7B-54082
- Availability
- Seven days, 8am–9pm, by appointment
Ten minutes from Coral Springs. Five from Coconut Creek. Open when you are actually free.
Plate VII
§ VII · Where our customers come from
Margate, and everything within
Margate, and everything within
fifteen minutes of it.
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.
- Margate33063 · 33068
- Coconut Creek33063 · 33066 · 33073
- North Lauderdale33068 · 33309
- Coral Springs33065 · 33071 · 33076
- Tamarac33319 · 33321 · 33351
- Pompano Beach33060 · 33064 · 33069
- Parkland33067 · 33076
- Deerfield Beach33441 · 33442
- Lauderhill33313 · 33319
- Sunrise33322 · 33351
A word about our address
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 — and it means nobody arrives unannounced at nine at night hoping to browse.
Sending something to us
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.
Ready when you are
Choose a time.
Choose a time.
We will be there.
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.