Possibly worse than Audiophiles

brad225

brad225

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My brother in law is the range officer at a local gun club.

One of the members had passed away a few weeks ago. His former spouse had contacted him and another officer there about clearing out the guns from the home they had shared when they were married.

When they opened the front door and attempted to go into the house it was filled completely with new, in the box, guns of all kinds.
After trying to tour the house that he said was difficult at best because there was no place to walk.
Their estimate was that there were 100,000 new guns in the house. Clearly no spousal approval there.
She told them she wanted nothing to do with the sale and they could keep all of the proceeds and give some to the range if he wanted.
 
I knew hoarders existed. 100,000 is hard to believe. If he was collecting for 60 years that would be about 139 guns a month for each of the 60 years. I bet most stores don't have that.
 
This boggles the mind. What was this guy planning? His purchasing of all of those guns didn't set off any red flags with ANY authorities?

Brad, I am not disparaging you or your brother-in-law in any way. But if this is a light-hearted gullibility test, I fall on the side of being a little leery with the absence of any evidence. Then again, what civil authorities would want to alert the public about this?
 
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We had a family dinner yesterday. I asked my brother in law about how it was going and after a few weeks they still are no where even getting to is gun safe.
 
I would be tempted to find a gun dealer (or two or three) and sell them the lot. You won’t maximize the revenue but it would greatly reduce the hassle.
 
crwilli said:
I would be tempted to find a gun dealer (or two or three) and sell them the lot. You won’t maximize the revenue but it would greatly reduce the hassle.
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That also minimizes any legal risk. Or bring in an auction house to auction them off as lots.
 
brad225 said:
We had a family dinner yesterday. I asked my brother in law about how it was going and after a few weeks they still are no where even getting to is gun safe.
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I wonder what his goal or motivation was. I mean to have that many guns he'd have to have several of the same model.

My dad hunted so his thing was shotguns mostly.
 
Brad, as a gun guy myself I can't even wrap my head around that number. For starters the officers at the local range would be the go-to for proper handling, disposal so as to stay within the law IMO.

Not being from Florida I don't know of your gun purchase procedures, laws, etc, but if it were here Pa I think some red flags would have been raised. Especially concerning handguns and high capacity magazine weapons.
 
Trust me, it sounds as crazy to me as all of you think. I haven't been there so I can only go by what I am hearing.

I think they are hesitant to publicize it or give out an address to anyone.
 
Apparently they are selling them at sales they have at the gun range every other week. They are selling them for 50-60% off what retail would be.
 
Shadowfax said:
If I do the math, and just use a low number of $500 per gun, it comes out to $50 Million Dollars. Something is not adding up if the wife does not want the proceeds of a $50,000,000.00 sale.
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Agree. MAYBE 100K worth of guns. 100,000 guns is absurd but .............????
 
Not buying this. I am a gun guy and live in The Republic of Texas, 10,000 guns ATF would be all up in that unless he had a current FFL. If you buy more than a dozen firearms (legally) ATF will come a knocking especially if you are buying ammo for those firearms to.
 
RepublicOfTexas69 said:
Not buying this. I am a gun guy and live in The Republic of Texas, 10,000 guns ATF would be all up in that unless he had a current FFL. If you buy more than a dozen firearms (legally) ATF will come a knocking especially if you are buying ammo for those firearms to.
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My brother has had an FFL for over 45 years. I know he has a lot of guns and many those without an FFL can't own, but I would be surprised if he had more than 150. And yeah, the ATF would have been all over that unless it was really a Black Market Holding Spot.
 
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