Shopify bans firearms outright. Build your gun store where you make the rules.
Shopify's Acceptable Use Policy prohibits firearms, ammunition and most firearm parts and accessories, and Shopify Payments won't process them - so a firearms business has no real home on the platform. A legal, licensed dealer is treated the same as a prohibited seller: not welcome. That is not a compliance problem you can fix. It is a platform that was never going to let you operate.
We build and migrate firearms and ammunition stores onto a self-hosted stack with the compliance workflows your business needs, so you own the store, the data and the payment setup outright.
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Why firearms don't work on Shopify
- Prohibited by policy. The Acceptable Use Policy bars firearms, ammunition and most parts and accessories - even legal ones.
- Payments blocked. Shopify Payments prohibits products requiring firearms-type regulatory approval, including weapons and ammunition.
- No appeal that changes the model. Even where some accessories might pass, you are operating on borrowed tolerance that can end at any time.
For a licensed dealer, this means the core of your business - the firearms themselves - can never sit on Shopify. Self-hosting is not an optimisation here; it is the only way to run the store at all.
What we build and migrate
Full firearms and ammunition catalog and workflows, including:
- Firearms (handguns, long guns) with compliant listing and checkout
- Ammunition
- Parts, components and accessories
- Optics, cases and gear
- Age and eligibility verification at checkout
- Compliance steps your jurisdiction requires (e.g. licensed-dealer / pickup workflows, restricted shipping rules)
Plus customers, order history, reviews, content and SEO URLs with 301 redirects.
What you get on self-hosted (Magento / Adobe Commerce / Hyva)
- A platform that permits your category. No acceptable use policy hanging over your catalog.
- Payment freedom. Connect firearms-friendly processors directly.
- Compliance built in. Age and eligibility checks, restricted-item shipping rules, dealer pickup / transfer workflows and jurisdiction logic.
- You own the data. Customer list and order history in your database.
- Serious catalog and B2B tooling. Large catalogs, dealer pricing, wholesale and stock management that firearms retail actually needs.
Case study: slovarms.si
slovarms.si is a firearms and ammunition store running on a self-hosted stack - proof that a regulated firearms business can operate a full online catalog with compliant workflows and its own payments, on infrastructure it controls, rather than a platform that bans the category outright.
- SEO / organic search: On self-hosted Magento, slovarms.si ranks on Google's first page for its main product searches - leading rifle and pistol models in top positions - and pulls tens of thousands of organic clicks from search, in a category Shopify bans outright.
For a firearms retailer reading this: it is a live example of exactly what Shopify will not let you build - a compliant gun and ammo store you fully own.
How we migrate you
- Audit of your store, catalog, compliance needs and payment setup.
- Full data migration with SEO-preserving 301 redirects.
- Rebuild on Magento / Adobe Commerce / Hyva.
- Firearms-friendly payments and compliance / verification workflows connected.
- Launch, hosting, maintenance and support.
Free migration on larger projects - ask us about absorbing the cost.
