Posted on 12/26/2015 6:15:04 AM PST by marktwain
The Luzern County, Pennsylvania Sheriff’s Department has decided to auction off about 175 firearms, some air guns, knives and other items. The items have been collected under a number of different administrations over 17 years, from 1993 to 2010. Most of the items are from Prevention From Abuse (PFA) orders, temporary and permanent. The Sheriffs office published (on their website, in a pdf file) a list of 154 cases that had expired, and told people who wanted their property returned to let them know that they wanted their property back. That was done on 5 November of last year. From the website(pdf):
Please be advised, a hearing has been scheduled for the following cases on November 5, 2014 at 10:00 A.M. at the Luzerne County Courthouse, 200 N. River Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18711 on a Petition to Dispose of Stored Weapons. These weapons were confiscated and stored pursuant to the following legal proceedings and the enforcement of the Pennsylvania Domestic Relations Code. At this time, despite the expiration of the court orders in the referenced cases, the weapons remain in the possession of the Luzerne County Sheriff. The defendants in the referenced cases are advised to appear at the hearing with identification and proof of ownership in order to seek return of the weapon(s). Further, you may appear any time prior to the hearing at the Luzerne County Sheriff to provide identification and certification of ownership of the weapons to seek return of the weapons. If you do not appear, the hearing will proceed based upon the evidence presented to the Court at that time and your weapon(s) shall be forfeited.
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The Sheriff will allow the public to look at the firearms to be auctioned off, but not to touch them, for 1/2 hour on 9 January. It would be nice if someone could get permission and take some pictures.
At least the Sheriff’s Department is auctioning off the firearms instead of destroying them.
Can’t they just send them to a nearby Mosque? They’ll end up there anyway.
Can't. No room.
Ever since those big crates full of baby milk arrived from Libya back in late 2012, most of them won't take anything much bigger than a pack of chewing gum.
Mr. niteowl77
I went to a police auction of seized items many years ago over in Oklahoma. A table full of guns in various shades of rust were there along with any other non-gun items.
The auction went slow. Then just after noon it was as if an electric current went through the crowd! They were now preparing to sell the guns! The entire crowd surged toward the gun table!
The auction began. New guns sold for more than new. Junk guns went for new prices. I could not believe it! Federal laws were enforced.
I was from out of state so could not buy. Since then I’ve been to several gun auctions and it is always the same. People lose all sense of value when they see the guns, even at farm auctions.
I have seen that happen quite a bit. Occasionally, a good deal can be had, but my experience with guns at auctions is similar to yours.
Make that three. Most knowledgeable folks might attend just to see how crazy the bidding will be but aren’t usually buying.
The guys who buy from me never do. Doggone it.
I used to go to three auctions a week looking for bargains for resale. I have seen the same thing happen with things other than guns. I have seen a ceiling fan still on the ceiling in a store that had closed sell for more than a new one cost and the buyer had to still pay a ten percent buyer’s premium, sales tax and the cost of removing the fan from the ceiling! I have seen eighty calculators with paper roll printers sell for DOUBLE the new cost each in one store that closed. I have also bought things for a penny on the dollar of actual value. I have bought a truck load of office machines for twenty dollars and sold one item for twenty five before I even loaded it on my truck. There are usually people at auctions who pay far too much and others who will let someone who knows what he is doing get a real steal. I have actually been to auctions where the auctioneer stopped the sale long enough to warn everyone that people were paying too much!
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