***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 once attended a gun auction in Garden City, Kansas. They were the collection of a deceased collector. I say collector tho most were just nice guns.
I noticed that for the first maybe 15 minutes prices were really low, then they got higher and higher, eventually getting to as much or maybe more than they were worth.
I have seen this exact thing occur at a Pennsylvania rural auction. I was astounded at the prices these fairly poor people bid on very ordinary guns, which consisted mostly of shotguns, a few rifles and no handguns.
IF?
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