Service rifles, catalogued.

About the register

Surplus Rifle Store collects the bolt actions and early semi-automatics that armed the world from the 1880s to the Cold War, and lists them the way an archive would: by pattern, by nation and by era. Most of what is here is a single used rifle with its own photographs, its own markings and its own history, so two listings for the same model are rarely the same rifle. Alongside them sit a smaller number of new rifles built to the old patterns, such as current M1A and M1 Carbine production; these are tagged as current production and are not curios or relics.

Every rifle ships to the licensed dealer you choose, where you complete Form 4473 and the background check, at 18 or older under federal law and 21 where a state requires it. If you hold an ATF Type 03 Curio and Relic license, a rifle that qualifies can ship to your licensed address where your state allows it; contact us before ordering. Our C&R license guide sets out the rules from 27 CFR Part 478.

The guides answer the questions collectors actually ask: how to tell a Remington 1903A3 from a Smith-Corona, what a low-number receiver is, how to read a Garand's throat erosion, why a Mosin is force-matched, which Mauser fires which cartridge and what an import mark tells you. The city pages cover twenty cities, many of them beside the Army posts and ranges where these rifles were issued and are still shot, with each state's purchase rules, deer seasons and public ranges.