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Gun appraisals in Mississippi for donations, estate tax, divorce, and probate, prepared in accordance with USPAP and IRS requirements. AppraiseItNow appraises handguns, rifles, shotguns, antique firearms, and collectible guns across Mississippi, including Jackson, Gulfport, and Biloxi.
DEFENSIBLE, USPAP-COMPLIANT FIREARMS APPRAISAL REPORTS — QUALIFIED FOR THE IRS, MISSISSIPPI COURTS, LENDERS, INSURERS, AND MORE.
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Owner & CEO
Joe founded AppraiseItNow to make a certified, USPAP-compliant appraisal as simple to order as anything else online. A former Bain & Company strategy consultant, Joe leads the entire team and specializes in strategy, growth, and the firm's tech capabilities.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member with 30 years in the trade, from running estate sales and an auction gallery to appraising luxury apparel, furniture, artwork, antiques, and business assets, primarily for IRS tax filings.
Machinery & Equipment Appraiser
Third-generation auctioneer and CAGA Certified Appraiser with more than 20 years valuing machinery, equipment, vehicles, business assets, and estates for banks, attorneys, and trustees across the Carolinas.
Personal Property Appraiser
ISA Accredited Member specializing in Asian art, with a Master's from SOAS and a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. Ashley chairs the ISA's Antiques, Furnishings, and Decorative Arts committee and appraises for charitable donation, insurance, and equitable distribution.
Client Success Manager
Manages each engagement from the first enquiry to the delivered report, and keeps you posted at every step along the way.
International Society of AppraisersAccredited Member
Certified Appraisers Guild of AmericaCertified Appraiser
The Appraisal FoundationAuthorized by Congress as the source of appraisal standardsAppraiseItNow appraises firearms in Mississippi for probate inventories, for property divided in a divorce, for charitable gifts, for insurance schedules and for claims after a theft or a fire. Most collections are measured from photographs of the markings, the serial numbers, the bores and the finish, along with whatever boxes and papers came with each piece.
Sporting arms
A Mississippi gun room is mostly working shotguns and deer rifles. What separates two of the same model is original finish, bore and barrel condition, correct wood and whether anything has been swapped, and each of those is read against completed sales rather than shop asking prices.
Collectible arms
Proof marks, inspector stamps, serial ranges and factory configuration can move a piece off the used rack and into the collector market, where a correct example and a refinished one are far apart. We report what the gun itself shows and say plainly where its record runs out.
Insurance
Carriers write firearms on a schedule rather than inside a contents limit, so each piece needs its own description and its own replacement figure. Where a gun is long out of production, the schedule sets out what acquiring a comparable example would take instead.
The use picks the standard and the date. A probate inventory and a division both ask for open market value between buyer and seller on one stated day. A carrier asks what replacing the piece would cost now. A theft claim asks what it was worth the day before it was gone.
Probate and division
A Mississippi inventory carries a value for each piece as of the date of death, and a division needs figures both sides can see the reasoning behind. Naming the sales a conclusion rests on is what keeps a cabinet of forty guns from being argued over one gun at a time.
Claims and gifts
A stolen gun is measured at what it was worth before it left, and a gift to a museum or other charity at fair market value on the day it changed hands. Where other household property is caught up in the same loss or the same gift, our Mississippi personal property work covers it.
Mississippi reaches the value of a firearm in two places that have nothing to do with the criminal code: the weekend the state stops collecting tax on one, and the day a pledged gun changes owners by operation of statute.
Sales tax
No sales tax
is due on a Mississippi firearm, safe or box of ammunition during Second Amendment Weekend
The Mississippi Department of Revenue runs a Second Amendment Weekend holiday, during which sales tax is not due statewide on consumer purchases of firearms, ammunition, firearm safes and the hunting supplies the department defines: archery equipment, firearm and archery cases, firearm and archery accessories, hearing protection, holsters, belts and slings. General hunting supplies are not exempt, layaway sales do not qualify, and the department sets the dates each year. The 2026 holiday ran from Friday, August 28 to Sunday, August 30. An insurance schedule written at replacement cost is a retail figure plus whatever tax a buyer would actually pay, so a quote pulled from that weekend is not the same quote as one pulled in October.
Pawned guns
30 days
after the maturity date is when a pledged Mississippi gun becomes the pawnbroker's
Under the Mississippi Pawnshop Act a pledgor has no obligation to redeem pledged goods or to make any payment on a pawn transaction. Goods not redeemed within thirty days following the originally fixed maturity date are automatically forfeited to the pawnbroker by operation of that section, and absolute right, title and interest in them vest in the pawnbroker automatically. Nothing further has to happen and nobody has to sign. For an estate schedule or a divorce schedule, that date decides whether a rifle sitting in a pawnshop is still property to be valued or a piece the family no longer owns, so the pawn ticket is worth finding before the cabinet is counted.
What Mississippi clients say we are known for
Across 23 published Mississippi appraisal reviews, every one from a client who paid AppraiseItNow for an appraisal, the three things they raise most often are that they would hire us again, how much research is visible in the report, and how quickly we answer.
It is a pleasure to work with Joe and his team. They communicate every step along the way and made the process simple for us to have more than 35 firearms appraised. It was all done in a timely manner and the final report is easy to understand. I highly recommend their services.
Gun Appraisal for Probate
I was skeptical at first, but the company exceeded all of my expectations. The team responded quickly to every question, and the service was excellent. They’re now my go to source for my collection. I’ve used them twice already, and I plan to use them several more times.
Firearms Appraisal for Personal Use
AppraiseItNow Inc. is the best company I was lucky to find by accident. I was looking for someone to appraise cabinets for a donation to charity. I asked for multiple referrals, called multiple appraisal services, etc., and no one could help me. I found AppraiseItNow and from the moment I started working with them, they were wonderful! Joe guided me on what I needed to send him, what needed to be done and stayed in touch with me the entire time. Their customer service is OUTSTANDING and a welcome surprise in today’s world where good customer service is an anomaly! They returned an appraisal in a timely manner, it was clear, concise, cost-effective and exactly what I needed. They followed up with me multiple times to ensure that I received it and everything was OK. My CPA is also thrilled to have them as an accredited appraisal service he can use for other clients. I rarely leave reviews, but I could not pass giving them 5 stars and I’d give 10 if possible! THANK YOU JOE AND ALL AT APPRAISEITNOW!!👊🏼
Personal Property Appraisal for Charitable Donation
I used AppraiseItNow for the first time last month and I was extremely pleased with the results. I needed an appraisal done for insurance purposes and the level of detail about each of my antique furniture pieces was thorough and very helpful in my being able to get the highest amount possible from my insurance company for the antique items that were damaged. I could see that they spent time making sure that the information she included was correct and current for my antique furniture items in the current market. The team responded to my emails timely to answer any questions I had. I would highly recommend Appraise It Now to get a thorough and professional appraisal done on antique items. I do intend to use them again for other antique furniture and jewelry that I have. Job well done! 😃🤗
Antique Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Claim
Joe made the process to have my piece of furniture appraised extremely easy, efficient and quick. My experience was great and I'd recommend AppraiseItNow to anyone looking for an appraisal.
Furniture Appraisal for Insurance Coverage
I asked AppraiseItNow to value a piece of sports memorabilia for purposes of a charitable donation. The item is rarely sold. Their research unearthed an important recent sale of a similar item, which I had not found previously, and which the first appraiser I used had not found either. AppraiseItNow was a good deal more expensive than the first service, but they crafted a detailed report in which I have much more confidence. They also helped me make sure the correct tax forms are used. Thank you!
Sports Memorabilia Appraisal for Charitable Donation
Given the USPAP-compliant nature of AppraiseItNow’s appraisal reports, we prepare our deliverables for major legal, tax, and financial reporting purposes for individual and commercial clients.
Popular uses of our appraisal reports include:
Completed transactions from platforms like GunBroker, results from major auction houses such as Rock Island, and dealer sales archives, filtered to the same make, model, caliber, and condition grade. Appraisers pull sales, not listings, because closed prices reflect real buyer behavior while asking prices prove nothing.
Fair market value, the open-market price between a willing buyer and seller with no compulsion, which is the standard for IRS estate and donation work. Insurance replacement value runs higher and does not belong on an estate schedule, so a report that labels its value standard protects the executor from mixing the two.
Not for simply owning or inheriting it. Mississippi has no state estate or inheritance tax, and personal effects are exempt from personal property taxation, so gun appraisals there are driven by probate inventories, equitable distribution in divorce, insurance scheduling, and federal tax filings rather than any state levy.
It removes the gun from the lawful market entirely. Mississippi Code section 97-37-35 makes possessing, retaining, or transferring a stolen firearm a standalone felony, with a 15-year minimum sentence when two or more stolen guns are involved. That is why credible appraisal work verifies serial numbers and provenance instead of assuming every piece in a collection is marketable.
