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Carolina firearm appraisals
Carolina firearm appraisals is listed in the FAIR appraiser registry with an office in Raleigh, North Carolina. Listed specialties: Antiques and Personal Property. Services, credentials and other facts stated on their own website are listed below.
Appraiser facts
- Specialties
- Credentials, memberships and roles
None listed in the registry record.
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- Office location
Raleigh, North Carolina
- Fees
Not supplied. Ask for written terms that do not depend on value, sale price or outcome.
For comparison only, not this appraiser's fee: 14 FAIR-listed personal property appraisers post an hourly rate on their own websites. The median is $163 an hour, and the middle half charge $150–$199 (checked October 2026).
- Registry status
Listed · Unclaimed
Listed since 2026-05-17; record edited 2026-08-25.
From their website
- Credentials
- AGI (American Gunsmithing Institute) Certified Firearms Appraiser
- Appraises
- firearms
- Appraisal services
- estate appraisals
- insurance claim appraisals
- bankruptcy appraisals
- charitable contribution appraisals
- divorce appraisals
- How they work
- on-site appraisals at the client's location
- Areas served
- North Carolina
Stated on carolinafirearmappraisals.com; checked October 14, 2026. Not supplied to FAIR by the appraiser, and FAIR has not verified it. Confirm directly.
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Source record and dates
- Source checked
- Not supplied
- Profile record edited
- 2026-08-25
- Listed since
- 2026-05-17
- Source freshness
- Source-check date unavailable
- Source confidence
- Website-backed unclaimed profile
- Source wording
- Antiques and Personal Property
- Service categories
- Antiques, Estate
- Linked source
- carolinafirearmappraisals.com
- Discovery status
- Unclaimed appraiser profile
- Profile completeness
- Strong public detail
- Profile evidence confidence
- Website-backed public source
- Formal-use routing signals
- Estate and probate
- Why this profile appears
- A public source-evidence URL is attached to this registry profile.
- The profile has a listed office location: Raleigh, NC.
- Listed service categories: Antiques, Estate.
- Listed specialty language: Antiques and Personal Property.
- Source confidence label: Website-backed unclaimed profile.
- The profile remains unclaimed and has a correction or removal path.
Source checks, profile edits and education checks are separate events. Not supplied: source fetched, profile verification-check date, education completed, education evidence checked.
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- Will inspection be remote or in person, and do you cover my location?
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Local read
Carolina firearm appraisals is an unclaimed, website-backed FAIR profile listed for Raleigh with broad Antiques and Personal Property specialty language, Antiques and Estate service categories, and an Estate and probate routing signal. The linked site narrows that label to firearm appraisal: its homepage describes appraisal work for estates, insurance claims, bankruptcy, charitable contributions, back taxes, divorce cases, fair market retail value, historical value, insurance replacement value, estate settlement value, liquidation value, and tax-deduction or gift value. The site says the service is based out of Raleigh, travels throughout North Carolina, and comes to the client to appraise firearms when bringing many guns to a business location is impractical. It states that services include a detailed four-page appraisal and a photo of each firearm, with an optional retained copy for seven years in secure storage, and says the appraiser can help arrange sale through a Raleigh-area auction house after an appraisal. The profile page names Brian Hurst, describes firearms buying and trading experience, Gander Mountain in-store firearms-buyer work, Raleigh-area auction purchasing, more than 30 years advising on gun value, and American Gunsmithing Institute firearm-appraiser credential language. FAIR does not show a fee statement, USPAP education detail, separate credential field, or claimed profile control, so confirm credential status, fees, report purpose, safety and handling logistics, sale-referral terms, and whether the assignment requires a formal written report.
Source-backed fit is firearm and gun appraisal, including individual guns, collections, estates, insurance replacement, divorce, bankruptcy, liquidation, charitable contribution, tax, historical-value, provenance, and auction-sale routing contexts. Confirm directly before treating this as a general antiques, furniture, art, jewelry, or household-contents appraiser.
Before outreach, state the report purpose and whether the firearms are individual pieces or a large collection. Ask about in-person travel, documentation, photos, safety and handling expectations, fee basis, credential status, and any auction-sale referral relationship.
Written from registry data and this appraiser's public materials. Descriptive only — not a certification, ranking, or endorsement.
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