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Today I followed a coupla Gun Auctions..one is the multiday Rock Island Auction in Moline...multitude of desirable collecter guns. and the other a minor wayside Auction in Missouri.

At Rock Island Smith & Wesson revolvers are goin strong while they can hardly give away Assualt Weapons...WW2 Military..US, German and even Jap is super hot. U better allready have it in your collection or U ain't gona be able to afford it tommorow.

Anyway an SR25 went at the RIA...AR10 variant Match Rifle currently used by the Navy Seals etc as their Sniper rifle sold for $3160.00 at Rock Island today...plus shipping, handling, receiving or sales taxes. Gun was without Sights but had 5 magazines. Basically NIB. I was the underbidder on that gun.


The outa the way auction all the modern handguns were pulling nearly retail prices. So prices were Very Strong...

I keep watching the gun market at auction to see how strong it is, I use it as a relative gauge of the economy.

Also was checking out the prices at a Collector Car Auction, lots of muscle cars were selling in the $25,000 to $35,000 range. It seems like ALOT of cars were not making reserves, especially 69-70 Mustangs as they were being passed on. It seems like there were more passes than sales.