Posted on 08/12/2024 4:46:25 AM PDT by marktwain
The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (DNR) will be auctioning off firearms and sporting goods confiscated by the DNR. Two Auctions will be held, on August 26 and October 7th, 2024.
The auctions are open to the public. The goods will be sold “as is”. Background checks are required for those who bid on and win a firearm or firearms. It is not clear if the background check will include filling out a form 4473.
The auctions will be conducted by Hiller Auction Inc. at the Auction barn in Zimmerman, Minnesota. The state of Minnesota will pay the auction fees. A sales tax of 7.375% will be charged on items sold at the auction. The August 26th Auction has an inspection period from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on August 23, 2024. Bidders will be registered. If a bidder wins a firearms auction, the bidder must pass a background check. From hillerauction.com:
This is a staggered ending auction. One or more items will end per minute. Check in auction “DETAILS” for each auction. Bidding will extend on that item if there is a bid in the final 3 minutes and extend as many times as needed until there are no bids for 3 minutes. Extended bidding does not affect the ending times of other items.
In the event of technology failure, we reserve the right to restart the auction at the point of failure extending the auction past its original ending time.
The first auction, on August 26th, has items listed at the Hiller Auction site. There are about 144 firearms. This number includes a few black powder guns, about seven tranquilizer guns, and a few air guns. The firearms include a number of inexpensive guns, as well as some moderately more expensive models, such as a Savage lever action in .300
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They are showing two Browning BAR rifles, lots #19 and #21. One is .300 (Win Mag?) and one is .280. It would be nice to pick those up for $150 from someone bringing it to a “buy back”.
“Firearms often go for high prices at auctions.”
To say the least. I watched a Henry rifle on an online estate auction one time. Cheaper Than Dirt had the same exact rifle for $200 less than this one eventually sold for. It gets pretty crazy.
In Minnesota I’m surprised they didn’t destroy them first and later say, “Oopsie, by law we were supposed to have an auction”. Shrug.
The really valuable pieces, if there are any, don’t get destroyed. They find new homes.
I went to a police auction of confiscated items in a next door state years ago. Everything went slow selling common goods confiscated.
SUDDENLY there went through the crowd something like an electric charge! Everyone rushed to the auction table where they were selling the GUNS! I saw junk guns go for almost new prices as everyone seemed to lose control over their buying impulse! Nothing went cheap.
I was just a few miles out of my state so I could not buy.
In our county where I live guns are destroyed. I almost cried when I saw perfectly good firearms being blow torched. Some were very high quality!
Indeed! I gave up on going to auctions some years ago, after seeing a couple in west-central KS. The farming class there apparently viewed them as a currency replacement or a commodity for wealth storage. Over 40% appeared to sell for more than current retail price, no matter the signs of wear.
Why aren’t the items given back to the owners or the owners’ next of kin?
Hilarious one arm of the government is putting guns back in the citizens’ hands while another is staging buy backs.
I've never understood it.
Perhaps some mystique about the person who previously owned it having been involved in criminal activity results in bid prices above even what one would pay for the same item brand new.
Sounds like mostly junk.
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