PARIS – Only one licensed dealer showed up Sept. 12 to bid on confiscated firearms seized by the Oxford County Sheriff’s Department.
Oxford County Sheriff Lloyd “Skip” Herrick hasn’t yet decided whether to accept the offer for the 40-odd assortment of handguns, shotguns, long rifles, bolt-action rifles, semiautomatic pistols and revolvers that the county has accumulated.
The guns were confiscated in arrests over the course of four to five years, said Herrick, and were kept in most instances because their former owners were convicted of crimes in which possession of a firearm is prohibited.
Some of the weapons were seized by the state’s Drug Enforcement Agency in drug arrests, he said.
Only federal firearm license holders were permitted to view the firearms and make offers on them. Despite advertisements that were posted about the viewing, only one licensed dealer showed up, Herrick said.
“I’m going to have to think about his offer,” he said. “Either I’m going to crush them and destroy them or sell them to a dealer.”
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