Seen in Forsyth County newspaper.
The website it directs you to isn't helpful-- the auctioneer company that's been contracted to the sheriffs department to hold the sales does not yet have confirmation of the specific date that these guns will be sold. Probably mid-December (I called on phone to ask).
They will certainly be mixed with other guns from other agencies in other jurisdictions, in a large firearms sale.
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I went to one of these auctions by the same company, in person, in Jasper, back when Obama was about to get reelected for his second term. Of course gun owners were in a panic thinking that he was about to ban privately owned firearms, and they were crawling on their hands and knees to the auctioneer waving fistful of cash. "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"
Many guns sold (used, as-is) for more than you could buy them new for just a year before, from big box sporting goods stores, or online jobbers / distributors.
But that was more than a decade ago so I'm not sure how these public gun auctions go these days. I'm sure the prices will be high if the guns are listed online with photographs of each firearm available for potential buyers to look at before the auction is held. I don't know if there was any such thing as online bidding for these kinds of auctions back when I did it in 2012 or whenever.
NOTE: I don't think there's anything in Georgia law that allows a sheriff to transfer all of these guns to a gun dealer first on the promise that the gun dealer will hold the auction and transfer them to the public but that is what is being done the auction company is an FFL and you would buy the guns from them and fill out all the paperwork and do all the background checks as if you purchased retail at a local gun store.
Georgia law does not expressly forbid this practice -- and it seems popular with the public. And since the anti-gunners want all guns that come into the hands of law-enforcement to be melted down and repurposed into "Diversity is our Strength" yard signs, it seems like this is a reasonable course of action for government agents to distribute deadly weapons to the public.
The website it directs you to isn't helpful-- the auctioneer company that's been contracted to the sheriffs department to hold the sales does not yet have confirmation of the specific date that these guns will be sold. Probably mid-December (I called on phone to ask).
They will certainly be mixed with other guns from other agencies in other jurisdictions, in a large firearms sale.
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I went to one of these auctions by the same company, in person, in Jasper, back when Obama was about to get reelected for his second term. Of course gun owners were in a panic thinking that he was about to ban privately owned firearms, and they were crawling on their hands and knees to the auctioneer waving fistful of cash. "SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY!"
Many guns sold (used, as-is) for more than you could buy them new for just a year before, from big box sporting goods stores, or online jobbers / distributors.
But that was more than a decade ago so I'm not sure how these public gun auctions go these days. I'm sure the prices will be high if the guns are listed online with photographs of each firearm available for potential buyers to look at before the auction is held. I don't know if there was any such thing as online bidding for these kinds of auctions back when I did it in 2012 or whenever.
NOTE: I don't think there's anything in Georgia law that allows a sheriff to transfer all of these guns to a gun dealer first on the promise that the gun dealer will hold the auction and transfer them to the public but that is what is being done the auction company is an FFL and you would buy the guns from them and fill out all the paperwork and do all the background checks as if you purchased retail at a local gun store.
Georgia law does not expressly forbid this practice -- and it seems popular with the public. And since the anti-gunners want all guns that come into the hands of law-enforcement to be melted down and repurposed into "Diversity is our Strength" yard signs, it seems like this is a reasonable course of action for government agents to distribute deadly weapons to the public.
