Where are the gun shows with $50 shotguns?

[WeaponsCollector]

Buy all the $50 junk guns you can possibly find regardless of condition, then the next time there's a gun "buyback" that pays better than $50 you can turn them all in and maybe double your money.

 

[EddieB]

DNR used to sell seized guns to dealers at insane prices. The dealers would clean them up and then make a few bucks on them.
Not anymore.

In the early 80's I went to a gun auction in Annapolis held by DNR. A couple hundred decent rifles and shotguns that had been confiscated were spreadout over many tables. At the time I was working part time at a gun shop, so I had a pretty good idea what the dealer and retail prices were for many firearms.

When the auction began, the bidding wars began. The offer's skyrocked. I was in shock at the prices guys were paying for some of those guns. I remember some were paying $100 - 200 and more than what they could buy new at retail. It was a frenzy.

I left shortly after the auction began. Never been to a gun auction since.

Thanks
EddieB.

 

[bobbowmossberg]

To get to the gun shows with $50 shotguns you need to go straight a few miles, then hang a left at 1998.

This is funny

 

[MikeSP]

Buy all the $50 junk guns you can possibly find regardless of condition, then the next time there's a gun "buyback" that pays better than $50 you can turn them all in and maybe double your money.

Haha. I didn't think about that idea! I would have bought a few the other weekend. I'm sure I'll get another chance.

 

[MikeSP]

Not sure what you're asking. There are no legal face to face sales between residents of different states unless the firearm is an antique.

Joe said:

Interstate sales between two states that do not share a border. FFL is needed.

I forgot that face to face sales between residents of different states required an FFL. I had never heard anything about exceptions for bordering states so I was asking if face to face sales between say a MD and a PA resident can be done without an FFL?

From what I read, this bordering states exception used to exist in the original gun control act of 1968 but has since changed.

That said, if John Smith, a MD. Resident goes a gun show in TN and gives some TN resident $50 cash for a shotgun who would ever know?

 

[offthepaper]

That said, if John Smith, a MD. Resident goes a gun show in TN and gives some TN resident $50 cash for a shotgun who would ever know?

Edward Snowden?