Condition is the most important thing but I think I might have gone for the Star 9mm.
One of the best guns I ever had was a Smith & Wesson model 29. The dealer had bought it along with maybe 50 more guns at a police auction. About half of the rear sight blade had been broken off and that caused the price to be really good.
I actually had it repaired at a gun show. One guy was selling all kind of S&W parts and he had the blade. I asked if he could install it and he told me he could if I didn’t mind him using the concrete floor as an anvil. I told him to go ahead and when he finished I could not tell it had not been installed at the factory.
New Mexico is doing that too, there is an auction coming up soon in Las Cruces I think...if anyone is interested I can look up the info. I think the one in LC is an in person auction...but can find out for sure.
***I have found that guns at auctions usually go for more than I want to spend,***
I went to a police auction many years ago. It was dull.
Then something like an electric charge went through the crowd! Everyone surged toward the table! THEY WERE SELLING THE GUNS!
People were bidding extremely high on the guns! Almost worth their value new! People were bidding up junk guns past their price when new! It was a sight!
I talked to a pawn dealer I knew. He had just come from an auction at a pawn shop in another town. He said he hoped to pick up a few guns cheap. He didn’t.
He said he wished he had loaded up every gun he had in his store and taken those to the auction, as a form of madness goes over the crowd when guns are sold at auction and they will pay way more than they would normally pay.
I’ve told the wife that if I die, sell my guns AT AUCTION, not to a store.
I love the way the writer puts forth one of the anti-gunners' favorite lines...
I've always responded to idiots who put forth the above statement with, "the fastest way to get guns off the street is to disarm the police. Oh, you mean the guns being used by criminals. So how is taking honest citizens' guns any help in lessening criminal acts, other than making a criminals' job easier and safer for them?"
The Colt auto .32 sounds like a 1903 Pocket Hammerless... a deal if it isn’t a beater.