East GA sheriff to auction off 5,000 firearms

By Bob Owens | 8:23 AM | October 05, 2013

Sorry folks, but this one is open to distributors only.

The Richmond County Sheriff’s Office has run out of space to store confiscated weapons and plans to auction them off to licensed firearms distribution companies.

The Augusta Chronicle reports that the auction is scheduled to start at the end of the month.

The sheriff’s office said in a statement that it has run out of space to store more than 5,000 firearms that were forfeited or abandoned. The seized guns must be sold at auction or stored by the agency according to Georgia law.

This should mean that there will be some decent quality used firearms entering the Georgia market soon, and hopefully at reasonable prices considering the current market glut.

Enjoy!

Bob Owens is the Editor of BearingArms.com. Bob is a graduate of roughly 400 hours of professional firearms training classes, including square range and force-on force work with handguns and carbines. He is a past volunteer instructor with Project Appleseed. He most recently received his Vehicle Close Quarters Combat Instructor certification from Centrifuge Training, and is the author of the short e-book, So You Want to Own a Gun. He can be found on Twitter at bob_owens.