Ben has spent seventeen years behind a pawn counter on Dayton Pike. He's opening his own.
For a good stretch of those years the shop he ran was an independent one — the kind of place that did a hundred FFL transfers a month for forty dollars apiece because that's what a neighborhood gun counter is for. Then a corporate buyer came in, looked at a spreadsheet, and decided transfers "weren't worth the trouble." The layaway got fees. The answers started coming from a script.
Big Ben's Gun & Pawn is the shop Ben always wanted to run: the same seventeen years of know-how, none of the corporate playbook.
What's coming
- Pawn loans with the terms printed on the ticket in plain numbers — no credit check, no collections, ever.
- We buy gold, jewelry, firearms, tools, electronics, instruments, and outdoor gear — tested in front of you, one straight offer.
- Real layaway: 10% down, no interest, no fees when you finish.
- Firearms: new and used handguns, rifles and shotguns, trade-ins, and $40 flat FFL transfers with the Tennessee background check included.
- Jewelry & gold priced off that day's spot, with the math shown.
When
We'll post the opening date right here and on our Facebook page as soon as it's set. In the meantime the address is 9721 Dayton Pike, Soddy Daisy, TN 37379 and the phone is (423) 555-0147.
See you at the counter.
— Big Ben's Gun & Pawn