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Another Bad Decision

NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
Can you guys remember when you used to look forward to the Police Auctions.I remember going with my uncle as a young man to the Police auctions,where they auctioned off what they had confiscated that year from raids,Drug dealers felons etc.Boy I remember I couldnt wait until the guns were auctioned off.It was a good thing for citizens and Police agencys as well.You could buy guns cheap and the Police agencies used the money to buy needed equipment.That was the days.I cant remember the last one there was.I know most of them now are sold by the whole lot by sealed bids to large FFL holders out of State,so the guns dont show back up in a particular crime in the State.But thats the lucky ones, most get destroyed and scraped.That makes me sick.I think the guns should be auctioned off in the City or County where they were confiscated to the citizens of that area.I guess things will never be like they used to be.But boy was those auctions a blast!!

Rugster
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Now that police departments can seize just about anything (cars, houses, property, boats, etc)and sell it to beef up their bank accounts, they couldnt be bothered with selling guns that they confiscate. Much easier for them to melt them down,rather than make a few bucks on the guns-they be making mucho bucks on the big stuff, so why bother with the little things.

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  • gunpaqgunpaq Member Posts: 4,607 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Are you talking about civilian guns in storage at Police Departments that are mysteriously lost prior to them being returned to the legal and lawabiding owner?

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  • pickenuppickenup Member Posts: 22,844 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    rugster;I remember going to them, and everytime we did, we would come home with a truck load of stuff. There was about anything you could imagine at those auctions. We would take what we did not want, and sell it at the flea market. I think salzo it right, they can't be bothered with the small stuff anymore.

    If I knew then, what I know now.
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  • RugerNinerRugerNiner Member Posts: 12,636 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I've bought whole guns minus the Frame from LEO's on line. They confiscate them strip them and saw the frame in half. I have a new Ruger P-85 SS minus the frame that I bought for $45.

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  • Evil ATFEvil ATF Member Posts: 1,195 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "Are you talking about civilian guns in storage at Police Departments that are mysteriously lost prior to them being returned to the legal and lawabiding owner?"

    Yup. Those would be some of them.

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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No Im talking about the ones recovered from drug bust etc.I sure couldnt stand to buy some ones legitamely owned fire arm or any thing else.I was just looking back in time at what I call the good old days.I have heard of guns disappearing and Im sure they do.But they were all kinds of things,it was like Christmas for me.

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  • dheffleydheffley Member Posts: 25,000 ✭
    edited November -1
    Though I disagree with distroying any leagl gun, I do understand why they don't want to sell the AK's and M16's back to the public. I disagree, but I understand it from their anti-gun view. What I cannot understand is how they will take a collectable say Enfield in .45-70 and run it throught the crusher. Who other than a collector is going to want that gun? Who would attempt to use a single shot rifle that is 4 feet long in a crime? Why would you distroy that weapon?

    On the AK's and M16's, if a citizen can legally own one, who gives them the right/power/authority to say no.

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  • 96harley96harley Member Posts: 3,992 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Our county and city still auctions about once a year. Don't expect a bargain though. I've seen a boat anchor 1911 welded shut and ugly go for $75.00. Others you can buy new and cheaper if you've an FFL. r. People get carried away at police auctions.

    Hint for good auctions. Only go to the ones advertising 2 or three firearms. That's where I get bargains. Bought an older Colt Cobra for $165.00. It was like new and one of only three guns at the auction.
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I remember they auctioned off an RV here, after they found a big bag of dope in it. Then while some potential buyers were inspecting it on the auction block, one of they're kids broke an interior panel, which lead to the finding of several hundred bags of dope....

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