Barrry was very helpful expediting shipping for a rifle I recently purchased. Wish everybody worked this way (quick and efficient).

This place has the most top notch customer service that I could ever ask for; as well as employees that are helpful and will go out of their way to assist you in a timely manner. Barry treated me like a long lost friend from the very beginning. Someone who leads from the front and not from the rear. You don't receive this level of service from any other gun store in Anchorage. Barry is incredibly friendly & helpful in times of my decisions on choosing firearms, stating the pros and cons and whether I'm suited for it, or if I'm better off with a certain model/make. Anything they don't have they can find for you. Unlike many other stores Granny's Guns treats you like family, and is a family run business. read more

Nice selection of of firearms in various configuration. 2 extra points for having a M1A SOCOM that I could actually touch and feel. I also had a great convo with the bearded mountain of a man that I can only assume was the boss. If only they had t-shirts that I could have worn back to California to annoy all of brainwashed, idiot liberal bay area neighbors. read more

I don't know if it was granny, but a woman helped me here who was knowledgeable and friendly. Quick good service. Good prices. Picked up a new revolver and couldn't be happier with it. They were busy, but still quick to help people as needed. read more

Great little gun store, I recommend them. They have a good selection of guns and nice people.

As a long time customer who has purchased many firearms from Granny's, I guarantee you I will never buy another gun from them. The principle of how I was treated on my most recent visit was inexcusable. Truly disappointing. Buyer beware. read more

I buy all my new guns from Granny's, it's the only place I'll go. They have a great inventory and they are always willing to make a deal. I've bought a Kriss Vector, an AR-10, EAA Witness, and a Wahlter. I've always had a great experience. read more

Very Nice Old School Kool kinda shop...easy to work with....my new go too....Unlike some other places in town who are Overpriced & overbearing with big fat people behind the counter....this place gets it... read more

I'm rating this 1 star because Yelp will not let me rate it ZERO stars. Over the last 2 years I've struggled to give this "new" gun shop a few different tries, and every time I go in there ready to buy, Barry (the owner) let's me down with either poor customer service with a dickhead attitude, lying about a firearm, and he is massively over priced. (Once a car Salesman always a car salesman) Barry's wife on the other hand is very pleasant to deal with and fair with her "deals", but she runs a tight ship and has little time for the usual "gun shop chit chat" that most Alaskans are use to. On a few occasions I've popped in to look for a specific firearm for myself or to buy to rent to my students as I'm a firearms instructor. And every time I go to Barry's shop I notice Granny's Guns prices are $300+ more than the other local shops in town for the same exact new firearm. (This is excluding the big box stores.) I don't understand how someone thinks it's acceptable to take a firearm with a price from the dealer and add $300-$500 to it. No other gun shop in the state does that. At most, they add 5% on new firearms. On other occasions I've gone in window shopping and I've found something I like and want to look at, and some jackass behind the counter (not Barry or his wife) would say, "are you gona by it, or just finger fuck it?" Look, I know it's a gun shop and we are all big boys and like to say dumb shit, but when I'm the customer, don't speak to me that way. Be professional, after all you want my money don't you? The nail in the coffin for me was, when earlier today I called about a specific Wilson Combat (the Brigadier Tactical) pistol. Now, Wilson sells it right on their website for $1149, yet the last two that Granny's Guns had in stock were $1500+..... when I asked Barry about this, he gave the typical "well I got to make some money on it." Or "I price them high so I can have room for negotiation." Again, Barry's entire life was the owner of a used car lot. Never buy ANYTHING from a used car salesman. Well, today I found out that, that specific pistol was gone, so I asked about him ordering me one. He said if he did it would be for $1500. I said, but I can pay Wilson Combat directly their $1149 plus shipping and have it sent to your FFL. Barry flat out told me he wouldn't accept any FFL transfer and "only make the $35 transfer fee." He wants to make more money on that. I don't know of a single gun shop in Alaska that would down right refuse to transfer a firearm for a customer that the shop did not currently have in stock. This is not how Alaskans do business. Especially the gun business. I understand the profit margin on a new firearm is 5%, but you don't treat people that way. If you don't have a specific firearm, and the customer has to order it from the manufacturer, you don't reject it because you cannot mark it up $500. That's not the way ANY gun shop in the state would have handled that situation. I will never buy a firearm from Barry for the rest of my life, nor will I ever send any of my students to his shop. In fact, I'll make it a point to tell my students to avoid Granny's Guns. It's a shame too because he has lots and lots of awesome guns in that no other shops in town seem to get. My business will stay with Gun Runners and Wild West Guns. They have never done me wrong. I would recommend them to anyone. If you are in the valley, go see Pete at Mat-Su Tactical, he will bend over backwards to make a customer happy. Same goes for Troy and Niels at Gun Runners. Again, never by guns from a former used car dealer. Never buy a gun from Granny's Guns unless you want to pay $500+ for the same thing you can get down the street. read more

Very friendly and helpful. Have a great selection of high quality stock. I will be a repeat customer for sure. Good place to go for hard to find guns read more

I've only been there once and will never visit them again. Everything is way overpriced compared to Great Northern Guns, Ammo Can, Gun Runners, Gun Traders, EDC and the big box stores. The owner has almost no knowledge of anything over five years old, his counter crew is rude and equally stupid. Its been stated by others that the owner had a previous career as a used car salesman..... it shows in his store and bargaining attitude.... With all the other real gun shops in Anchorage and the Valley... why even stop here for high prices, and a bad attitude?? I told him I had an FFL and could he give me a discount... I got a few dollars off an already horribly overpriced dot sight.... could have got it cheaper at Optics Planet or Amazon... read more

Over priced... Sold me a gun $51.00 above retail and boasted about Black Friday deal. You people that are so supportive of these mom and so called pop stores and their over pricing. Don't get mad when your big box stores start over pricing your ammo, guns or other shooting supplies. You have nothing you can complain about! read more

I needed what I needed and GG had it and Barry knocked a hundred from the price of a new in the box PTR G3. Smooth transaction other then NICS being a jerk for a few days, so I had to wait to take it home.. Ill go back again to spend more dead dinosaurs for my next gun read more

Just a couple day before Christmas I got the go ahead to get my son his first real gun. I was looking for a single shot .22 or 20g and looked all over town. Not many places were excited to help me look for a gun under $250, and even fewer had anything used in decent condition. I called and talked to Barry who gave me several options over the phone. I was surprised at the selection of such a small store. Barry helped me select a 410 Winchester that turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. He gave me a deal on it, without me trying to haggle, and after doing research on the internet I couldn't find a much better deal anywhere. Plus when I realized I didn't have suitable identification on me, he held the gun for me till I was able to come back the next day. Yes, Barry's a wheeler and dealer but a good, friendly guy and he helped get me the gun i wanted under budget and under the tree in time for Christmas. read more

Just bought a new in the box Glock 21, 45 auto.. At the shop, I opened the box and had noticed no other clips in the case besides the one inside the gun. The shop owner said he would sell me a clip or two at 35 a piece, so he took two clips out of a different glock case and sold them to me. Since then, I've done quite a bit of research and it turns out that Glock 21 Gen 4s come standard with 3 clips. Buyer beware, if you try to buy a Glock and it has one clip go somewhere else. Once a car salesman, always a car salesman. read more

The owner of this place knows very little on guns. He seems to think just about everything he has is a rare or very hard to find gun. His prices are a bit high for his used guns. He went and bought most of the stuff from the small ammo shop that opened up at the corner of Spenard and Ben just down from Ammo Can. He even went and bought stuff from some of the other gun shops in town. But over priced on most items and knows very little about most fire arms. Not much of a place I would say to go for a first time buyer. Unless you know what exactly about what you are looking for and need, do not take any advice from the owner. read more

I was excited to check out Granny's Guns. They have decent reviews, it looked like they had a good selection, and I was looking forward to shopping at locally-owned a gun store where customer service wasn't an afterthought. The selection was great, the store was clean, the layout was well thought-out, and the employees (Barry, who I'm assuming is the owner and his wife(?) were both helpful and provided me with good info. I found the gun I wanted and decided to buy it after a few minutes. Their price was higher than other places in town and wouldn't match MSRP, but that's ok, they're local and that's worth a little extra to me. They charged 2% to put my purchase on a card, but I get it, credit card processing is expensive. My credit card was charged for $650, and I began filling out purchase paperwork. This is where things went downhill. I forgot that my driver's license doesn't have my current address on it (my mistake, and I know the rules for buying a gun, it just slipped my mind), also my friend drove me to the store, so I didn't have my car registration with me. I told Barry I needed to go home to grab my car registration with my current address, and that I would try to make it back before closing. I got home and grabbed my car regs, but they also have my old address, so I called to let them know I wouldn't be in to get the gun until another date. I work the same hours that they're open, so I also asked that the $650 charge on my card be voided until I could make it back. I had no product and I didn't feel comfortable having that much outstanding with nothing to show for it. Barry started making excuses for why he couldn't (or wouldn't) do this. First of all, it was that he "didn't know how to use the credit card machine" (hint: find the receipt #, go into your machine, void the transaction). Then it was that there was a "ton of paperwork to do" and that it was a big deal that they had already done all this work and that I couldn't just back out (they had done nothing yet except copy my ID and hand me a form to fill out). Then it was that they had a strict "no refunds" policy (how can it be a refund when I haven't even received a product?), which also makes me wonder; if I did, in fact "purchase" the gun by that point, did they sell it to me without even completing a background check? I was then chastised for trying to "back out of a sale", which was not my intention at all (I'm still going to buy the gun, just not from them). I went back to the store with my card, and immediately Barry started going off about how they have to do so much paperwork. I told him I didn't care, and to just refund my card and I left without saying anything else. Look, I want local businesses to succeed. I really, really do. I think it's a shame that so many big box stores and websites like Gun Broker are taking business away from local shops. But it's things like this that make it really, really hard to go into local gun shops and try to buy something. You're running a retail business with customers, and you have to treat them with at least a little bit of respect. This entire situation could have been avoided if Barry had just said, "Sure I'll refund your card, hopefully we'll see you tomorrow!". Is that really so hard? They would've earned a customer and I would've gladly told people to shop there. Instead, I got what sadly seems like par-for-the-course gun shop treatment and I'll just have to take my money somewhere else. read more

I've purchased three guns here and have been very happy every time. The owner is friendly and always offers great deals. I have never left the shop paying full retail, and I recommend this place to all my friends and family. read more