Grandpa’s Pawn & Gun will close its Ninth Avenue shop at the end of December, ending an 11-year run at the location and 32 years of business in Longmont.

Owner Rod Brandenburg said the city’s recent railroad crossing safety project, dubbed the Quiet Zone Safety Improvement Program, eliminated the store’s only viable exit, a change he believes leaves the property unsafe for customers and impossible to operate.

Brandenburg has run the business since 1999, when he purchased it from its original founder on Main Street. The shop spent more than three decades on Main before Brandenburg moved it to Ninth Avenue in 2014, a shift he said nearly doubled sales because the new site offered far better parking.

“When you walk in, you don’t see just guns. We sell a ton of jewelry. We’re the only ones

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