Can civilians buy military surplus gear? Yes, civilians can buy military surplus gear. Military surplus stores specialize in selling these items to the public. They offer a wide range of products that were once used by the military but are now available for civilian use.

Military surplus are goods, usually matériel, that are sold or otherwise disposed of when held in excess or are no longer needed by the military. Entrepreneurs often buy these goods and resell them at surplus stores.

Surplus stores and centers both offer surplus new and used products at discounted prices, making them excellent options to source eCommerce products.

Now those stores and their competitors are out of business. The few stores that remain have basically two lines of stock: some real army surplus that's much-picked-over, basically the rejects of the past few decades, stuff that won't sell for another few years yet… and a line of imported-from-China knock-off stuff.