Firearms advertising and media kit 2026

Firearms advertisingthat Meta and Google won't run

GunPartPicker is a 2A friendly advertising platform built on America's AR builds

Reach builders while they pick parts, not after: daily prices from nearly 30 retailers, 988 brands priced this quarter, and 1 million+ parts configured by builders since 2020. 2A friendly, with none of the Meta or Google ad restrictions, and fully compliant firearms advertising.

Data as of September 9, 2026; traffic trailing 30 days (August 10 to September 9, 2026).

Parts configured since 2020

1M+

Monthly views

246k

trailing 30 days

Brands priced this quarter

988

1,513 in catalog

Sales potential sent to retailers, 30d

$1.4M

retail value of products sent to retailers

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The problem with firearms advertising

Firearms brands and retailers are locked out of the two channels every other consumer product uses. The audience did not go away. It moved to the places builders already spend their time.

Meta and Google say no

Facebook, Instagram and Google Ads prohibit ads for firearms, parts, ammunition and most accessories. Appeals do not change the policy.

Programmatic filters you out

Most ad exchanges classify firearms as sensitive inventory, so open web campaigns get throttled or rejected before they serve.

Print reaches the wrong moment

Magazine and newsletter ads reach shooters, but weeks away from a purchase and with no way to measure what they did next.

Search is crowded and slow

Ranking for part names against the big retailers takes years. A media buyer needs the audience this quarter.

GunPartPicker is where AR-15 builders go to plan the rifle, check compatibility and compare prices across nearly 30 retailers before they buy. Ads here sit inside that workflow: a sponsored product in the listing a builder is already scrolling, a display unit on the guide they are reading, a slot in the category they are shopping. No platform policy stands between you and the buyer, and every placement reports what builders did with your product afterward.

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Firearms audience data

Monthly views

246k

246,280 in the last 30 days

US audience

95%

of sessions

Mobile

55%

of views

Avg session

4 min

average engagement time

Top states

Texas

California, Virginia, Florida, Georgia

Sales potential sent to retailers, 30d

$1.4M

2,855 distinct products, average $216 each

Source: GunPartPicker site analytics (Google Analytics) and affiliate reporting, August 10 to September 9, 2026. Sales potential is the retail price of every product sent to a retailer through a credited Buy Now click, summed over the period.

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Traffic growth

Fig 011.25x in three months
Monthly viewsMay 26: 219k219kMay 26Jun 26: 206k206kJun 26Jul 26: 270k270kJul 26Aug 26: 273k273kAug 26Source: GunPartPicker site analytics, September 9, 2026May to Aug 2026

Monthly views, May to August 2026. September excluded (partial month).

1.25×

Views per month, May to August 2026: 219k to 273k.

Nearly 30,000 parts picked into builds in the last 30 days, and $1.4M in sales potential sent to retailers.

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Cited by ChatGPT and Google Gemini

AI assistants send builders here

GunPartPicker pages are cited in ChatGPT and Google Gemini answers about AR-15 parts, compatibility and pricing, and readers arrive from both every week. Every part page carries structured product, price and compatibility data, and the quarterly Gun Industry Insights report is published to be cited, which is what assistants reach for when they answer a parts question. A sponsored product sits in that same data.

What assistants pull from

  • Gun Industry Insights: quarterly category winners, brand share, build cost and ammo price data with a cite as line and open CSV downloads
  • Structured product, price and compatibility data on every part page
  • Per caliber ammo cost per round pages, updated daily
  • State gun law guides and parts guides written from build data

Source: site referrer logs, August 10 to September 9, 2026. Google AI Overview impressions and Bing Copilot citations will be added from Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools.

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Gun industry data: 1M+ parts, 1,513 brands, nearly 30 retailers

Parts configured since 2020

1M+

Brands

1,513

988 priced this quarter

Products priced daily

100,000+

AR-15, Glock and ammunition

Retailers compared

nearly 30

online retailers, daily

Ammo calibers indexed

55

daily cost per round

Data driven guides

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Public community builds

1,000+

shared to Reddit, Discord and forums

Quarterly

Insights

Gun Industry Insights report

Gun Industry Insights is a quarterly report built from saved builds and millions of daily price observations: category winners, brand build share, barrel and handguard mix, a fixed basket AR-15 Build Cost Index, an Ammo Price Index across 55 calibers, lowest price retailer share and out of stock rates. Manufacturers and retailers can license category level cuts of the same data: share of builds by slot, price position, stock rate and competitor comparisons, quarterly. Read the Q3 2026 edition.

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Audience profile

Who they are

  • 95% US. Top five states: Texas, California, Virginia, Florida, Georgia
  • Platform mix: AR-15 91.6%, AR-10 5.8%, universal parts only 2.6%
  • Median saved build: 8 parts, $1,162 in parts
  • Repeat builders: 18.3% of signed in builders saved two or more builds this quarter
  • Mobile: 55% of views

What they do

  • Price a parts list across nearly 30 retailers
  • Check compatibility as they build (caliber, platform, gas length, thread pitch, mounting)
  • Compare brands by build share on brand and category pages
  • Track ammo cost per round across 55 calibers
  • Share builds to Reddit and Discord (1,000+ public community builds)
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Why advertise on GunPartPicker

Four things you get here that you cannot get from a banner network, then the formats.

In the buying workflow

Your product appears in the listing and the builder while the parts list is being made, priced against the retailers that carry it.

It compounds

A sponsored part that lands in a saved build stays there and gets re-priced and bought later, so placements keep working after they end.

Measured by outcome

Every placement reports adds to builds, saved builds and retailer clicks by day. Not impressions, actions.

No policy risk

2A friendly by design. Compliant firearms advertising with no Meta or Google restrictions and no exchange filters.

Sponsored placement results, spring 2026

One brand saw a 12x return on a single sponsored slot. And it kept paying after the slot ended.

An optics brand sponsored one red dot sight in the Optic listing from April 15 to May 15, 2026. Going in, it was one of 2,000+ optics in the catalog with no builds and no buy clicks against it. Thirty days later it was a top 15 optic, built into 12 rifles, with 12x its sponsorship cost in revenue potential created, and it was still sending buyers to retailers a month after the slot was gone.

12x

revenue potential vs spend

retailer clicks plus saved builds, against a single month of sponsorship

Top 15

optic on the site

from unranked among 2,000+ optics, in 30 days

150+

parts built around it

across 19 rifles from 50 other brands, every one a list the builder returns to price and buy

100%

buy click retention

the 30 days after the sponsorship matched the 30 days during it

Why it compounds: a banner is seen once. A sponsored part gets saved into a rifle, and the builder comes back to that list to re-price it and buy it, so the placement keeps working after you stop paying for it. Adds to builds ran at 5x the category average during the month, and every placement reports adds, builds and retailer clicks by day. Across the whole site, that adds up to $1.4 million in sales potential sent to retailers in the last 30 days.

Placement ads (sponsored slot)

A sponsored product at position 2 in a category listing, labeled SPONSORED. Sold by category and by month. Rankings never change; the sponsor label does.

Contact for pricing

Programmatic display (Armanet)

Standard IAB units on listing, guide and product pages through our ad partner Armanet, the firearms industry ad network. Viewability 75%; direct deals and private marketplace available. Compliant firearms advertising with no Meta or Google restrictions.

Contact for pricing

Category sponsorship

Own a slot for a quarter across the category page, the builder and the guides for that part.

Contact for pricing

For pricing on any option, email mack@gunpartpicker.net.

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Brands on GunPartPicker

Top 24 brands by products tracked
BrandProducts
Federal2,906
Remington2,401
Hornady2,380
Aero Precision2,156
Winchester2,052
Palmetto State Armory2,014
Trijicon1,140
Leupold1,113
Proof Research1,090
Sig Sauer1,020
CMMG1,016
Nosler968
Magpul889
CCI800
Fiocchi793
Bravo Company754
Streamlight639
Winchester Repeating Arms638
Brownells630
Guntec USA628
Strike Industries620
Ballistic Advantage589
American Defense572
Faxon Firearms566
Top brands by build share, Q3 2026: share of builds containing the brand, from 49,000+ parts configured
BrandShare of builds
Geissele44.5%
Magpul44%
Bravo Company37.9%
Strike Industries34%
Aero Precision33.3%
Radian29.4%
Wilson Combat26.1%
Rise Armament24.8%
CMMG23.5%
Palmetto State Armory22.1%
Timber Creek17.7%
B5 Systems17.2%
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Editorial standards

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Press and data requests

Cite as

Source: GunPartPicker Gun Industry Insights, Q3 2026, gunpartpicker.net/insights/2026-q3

Press contact

mack@gunpartpicker.net

Available for: data requests, interviews, custom cuts, embargoed early access to each edition.

Coverage: [needs: press mentions with links]

Next report: Q4 2026 edition, second week of January 2027.

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Logo and link badges

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Primary logo

SVG + 512 PNG, dark and light

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Micro badge

88 × 31

[needs: asset file]

Priced on GunPartPicker

120 × 60, for retailers

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Builders' pick badge

for category winners, with the build count

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  <img src="https://gunpartpicker.net/badges/builders-pick.svg" width="120" height="60" alt="Builders' pick on GunPartPicker">
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