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Gun shop & FFL SEO

You sell a constitutional right. The platforms treat it like contraband.

Google Ads: bannedMeta: bannedSearch & AI: wide open

Google and Meta ban firearm and ammunition ads outright, and they have for years. Meanwhile your next customer is searching for a first pistol, an FFL transfer, or a concealed carry class tonight. Search and AI answers are the only doors left. We put your name on both.

No contracts. Cancel anytime with 30 days notice.

The reality

Three fights you're in, whether you know it or not.

Big boxes eat your searches.

Cabela's and the chains outrank independents for every buying search in your county. The map pack is where an independent shop can actually beat them, and we fight there.

Transfers and classes are buried.

FFL transfers, CCW classes, range time. High-intent, high-margin searches most shops have no page for. We build each one, done clean.

AI plays it safe and skips you.

Ask AI where to buy a firearm and it names the biggest, most-cited names. Mentions and citations are what put an independent shop in that answer. That's buildable.

How we fight it

Two battlefields. One scoreboard.

The map pack and the AI answer run on different algorithms. We fight both: your profile, reviews, and coverage pages for the map, and the entities, mentions, and citations that put your name inside AI answers. Every month you see the same heat map we audited you with, updated.

  • Policy-aware from day one. We know exactly where Google draws its lines for firearms retailers, on the profile and on the site. Nothing we build trips them.
  • Range and training first. Classes and range visits are the front door your competitors ignore. They rank, they book, and they build the review base.
  • Local links that fit. Clubs, conservation groups, local events. Links from your actual community, the only kind that move local rank.
"gun store near me" · area visibility after 90 days

Each cell is a real map location. The number is your ranking there.

Free local search audit

Find out what the AI says when someone asks where to buy their first firearm.

One audit. Your real map, your real rankings, and what ChatGPT and Google answer today. If you're already winning, we'll tell you that too.