How White-Glove Gun Pickup Works in Florida (2026)

If you have guns in a closet in Tampa, a safe in The Villages, or an inherited cabinet in Jacksonville, you do not have to box them yourself or meet a stranger in a parking lot. Accurate Gun Auctions runs discrete in-home pickup across Florida. Our FFL team inventories the firearms at your house, you sign a consignment form, and we handle listing, bidding, and the legal transfer to the winning buyer.

That is the whole point of white-glove pickup. You stay home. We take custody as a licensed dealer. The sale runs through an auction that already has nationwide bidders.

What “white-glove” actually means

On our white-glove pickup page we describe the visit like this:

1. You start on the sell form or call the Clearwater office.
2. We schedule a pickup window.
3. An FFL team arrives. We inventory every firearm on site, with short descriptions.
4. You get that list by email before we leave, plus a copy of the pickup person’s ID and a copy of our FFL.
5. You sign the consignment form.
6. We pack the guns and take them.

The service page says we cover the whole state — Tampa Bay, Clearwater, St. Petersburg, Orlando, Miami, Jacksonville, Naples, Fort Myers, Tallahassee, and The Villages / Sumter County. If you are on a barrier island or in the Keys, say so on the form so we can confirm the route instead of assuming.

You can also ship to us or drop off in Clearwater. Pickup is for people who do not want to move a collection through a UPS counter or a spare bedroom.

The law snapshot (seller vs buyer)

Two different events get mixed up. One is you consigning to an FFL. The other is a buyer taking delivery of a firearm from a retailer.

When you hand guns to AGA at the house

Federal law lets an unlicensed person transfer firearms to a federal firearms licensee. That is how in-home pickup works. You are not running a parking-lot private sale. You are placing inventory with a dealer who will document the rest.

Federal law does not let an unlicensed person send a gun straight to a buyer who lives in another state. Interstate movement between two unlicensed people is the problem 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(5) is written to stop. The lawful path is FFL to FFL, then the receiving dealer runs the 4473 and background check in the buyer’s state. That is also why an online auction is a better fit than a Facebook handoff when the high bidder is in Ohio or Texas.

When a Florida retailer delivers a gun to a buyer

Florida licensed dealers must run a criminal-history check through the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Firearm Purchase Program before they sell or deliver a firearm from inventory at the licensed premises to a non-licensee. Florida is a point-of-contact state. Dealers call FDLE, not the FBI, for that check.

Florida’s published waiting-period statute still says a retailer may not deliver until three days have passed, excluding weekends and legal holidays, or until that records check is finished — whichever is later. The statute lists exceptions, including a holder of a Florida concealed-weapon license as defined in the section, a firearm trade-in, and certain hunter-safety rifle or shotgun purchases. Our FAQ still tells local buyers that a Florida ID plus a Florida CWP is how same-day pickup at the Clearwater office avoids that wait. That FAQ line is about buyers taking delivery, not about you consigning.

Florida also bans a state registry of privately owned firearms. That is not the same thing as “no paperwork.” Dealers keep federal transaction records. AGA keeps a consignment file so you can see what left the house.

It remains illegal, under federal law, to transfer a firearm to someone you know — or have reasonable cause to believe — is prohibited. Auction or private sale does not change that.

This article is general information, not legal advice. Firearm statutes change. Confirm current Florida and federal rules or speak with a licensed attorney and AGA’s FFL team before you transfer a firearm.

Pickup vs drop-off vs private sale vs a local counter offer

A shop offer is simple. It is also one bid. An auction puts the same Colt or walnut-stock shotgun in front of people who already collect that pattern. We publish buyer’s premium on the FAQ (15% cash or certified funds, 18% card). That is a buyer fee. Seller commission is on the consignment form. We do not quote a made-up percentage in a blog post.

If you want the legal, documented path and you do not want strangers in your driveway shopping the safe, consign your guns.

Consign your guns

How Accurate Gun Auctions handles a pickup sale

1. Submit the sell form or request a valuation. Photos help. Serial numbers help more.
2. We confirm the lot is something we can auction (modern Title I firearms, collections, many estate groupings). NFA items — suppressors, short-barreled rifles, and the rest — follow a different federal process. Tell us they are in the safe before the van is on the way. Do not treat them like a used Glock.
3. We schedule pickup. Ask for a window that does not sit your collection on the porch.
4. On site we inventory, leave ID and FFL copies, and have you sign. Read the form. If a number is blank, stop and ask.
5. We photograph, describe, and list into the live auction. The how-to-sell page describes that listing window as about three weeks. Confirm the current calendar when you consign.
6. Bidding closes. Winning bidders who are not picking up in Clearwater go through an FFL in their state. We ship dealer to dealer.
7. You are paid on AGA’s published timeline: consignors are normally paid within two weeks after the auction ends. The white-glove page also describes a direct-buy option with check-on-the-spot or wire if you would rather skip the auction. That is a different deal. Ask which lane you are in before we load the van.

Local buyers who win a lot can pick up in Clearwater by appointment with a Florida ID. The FAQ still ties skipping the statutory wait to a Florida CWP.

What to have ready before we arrive

• Photo ID for the person signing the consignment form.
• Any probate, trust, or personal-representative paper if this is an estate. An executor who skips that step creates a mess later. See our executor guide and the estate guns page.
• The combination or keys. We cannot inventory a locked safe you cannot open.
• A rough count. “I think Dad had forty” is how pieces get missed in a guest-room closet.
• Boxes or cases if you have them. We pack either way.
• A note on anything odd: engraved presentation guns, factory letters, extra barrels, matching boxes. That is what out-of-state collectors bid up.

If someone contacted you first on Craigslist or by text offering to “send a courier with cash,” stop. Read the scam alert and do not release a firearm to a person you have not verified.

City notes

Tampa, Clearwater, and St. Petersburg are a same-day or next-day truck for us. Use the city pages if that is your search: sell in Tampa, Clearwater, St. Petersburg.

Orlando and The Villages are regular routes. Retirees often have two problems at once: a safe full of guns and a closing date on the house. Pickup exists for that week, not for “someday.”

Jacksonville, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Naples, and Tallahassee are on the statewide list. Put the city on the form so dispatch does not guess.

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