Is ogca.com legit or a scam?
The official, long-standing website for the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, featuring verified non-profit status and nearly 30 years of clean domain history.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page displays a professional and fully-rendered layout for an organization, with no visual indicators of deceptive patterns or malicious intent.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsStandard login portal for a specific organization
Functional navigation menu with multiple sub-pages
Consistent branding and high-resolution imagery
No visible urgency tactics or fake trust badges
Layout appears professional and fully rendered
MT Intelligence
Our analysis confirms this domain belongs to a legitimate 501(c)(7) social and recreational club incorporated in 1949. The domain itself has been registered for nearly 29 years, which is a exceptionally strong indicator of stability. We found active business registrations and tax-exempt filings that match the organization's stated mission. Our antivirus network shows no malicious detections across dozens of security engines. The site serves as a functional portal for a 15,000-member organization with no signs of deceptive behavior.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ogca.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- ogca.com is the official website of the Ohio Gun Collectors Association, founded in 1937 and incorporated as a nonprofit in 1949.
- Recognized by the NRA as the “Granddaddy” of firearm collector associations; has 15,000+ members and hosts large gun shows/meetings in Ohio (e.g., upcoming 2026 events listed).
- Registered 501(c)(7) social/recreational club (EIN 34-6597397) in Northfield, OH; tax-exempt since 1967 with recent IRS Form 990 filings through FY2025 (revenue ~$897k in latest year).
- Member-only events with strict guest policies and screening; positive member testimonials on the site praising shows as among the best in Ohio.
- Discussed positively on Reddit (r/OHGuns, r/Ohio), gun collector forums (ColtForum, RimfireCentral, WinchesterCollector), and partner sites (Turnbull Restoration, Rock Island Auction).
- No scam reports, complaints, negative reviews, or fraud mentions found across web searches, Reddit, or review platforms.
- Domain age of ~29 years (10712 days) aligns with long-standing organization presence; uses MemberClicks for member portal.
- ogca.comopen
"“Many people recommended the OGCA as the best gun show in Ohio, they were right!”"
- ogca.comopen
"“OGCA exudes my sentiments for hunting, marksmanship, collecting, sport of shooting and competitive shooting. We need to get youth included in every area; clubs, collecting, shooting.”"
- Reddit (r/OHGuns)open
"There is a lot to look at but rarely ever deals because everyone knows what they have. But if you are looking for something old and hard to find ..."
501(c)(7) social and recreational club; tax-exempt since Nov 1967 (EIN 34-6597397); files annual Form 990s (latest FY2025 filed Nov 2025); Northfield/Sagamore Hills, OH; ~15,000+ members; founded 1937, incorporated 1949
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- Phone number listed (2025-12-17).
- Postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 9 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ogca.com/
- 2200https://ogca.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on ogca.com and not a lookalike like o-gca.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
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Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on ogca.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- ogca.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 96/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. ogca.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · R12, expiring in 35 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ogca.com is 29.3 years old, registered on 3/1/1997 through GoDaddy.com, LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 66 antivirus engines in our malware network report ogca.com as clean.
- No. ogca.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ogca.com resolves to an IP operated by Amazon Technologies Inc. in US (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 29, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around ogca.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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