Monkeyleg
Member.
Yes, I'm still working on fund-raisers.
At least one of them will be a banquet where we'll have guns for auction.
The guns will be purchased from a couple of local shops at cost plus $10 to cover the time for paperwork. The WCCM's "profit" will be whatever the guns sell for minus the shops' costs.
The ideal would be for me to buy the guns from the shop, go through the NICS check myself, and then treat them as private transfers after auction, so people could take them home with them that night. If that's not illegal, though, it's getting awfully close.
The shops want to have one of their employees take the guns to the banquet, watch over them, then have the winners of the auction come to the store sometime in the following days to go through the background check. Also, WI has a 48 hour waiting period on handguns.
Massad Ayoob will be the guest speaker. Given that this is a fund-raiser for CCW in WI, and that Ayoob is such a great speaker, I'm thinking that $75 for a dinner wouldn't be out of line. Your thoughts?
I'm also thinking that the $75 dinner ticket price would apply to a person's bid on an auction item. That might make the $75 price a bit more attractive.
Also, I have almost unlimited choice of guns to auction off: Bushmasters, Les Baer's, Ed Brown's, Wilson's, Kimbers...whatever I want.
I'm thinking, though, that not that many people will be able to bid on a $2000 pistol.
Any thoughts as to what guns would get bid up well?
The banquet is in July, but I'd like to get everything set right now.
Any and all opinions much appreciated.
At least one of them will be a banquet where we'll have guns for auction.
The guns will be purchased from a couple of local shops at cost plus $10 to cover the time for paperwork. The WCCM's "profit" will be whatever the guns sell for minus the shops' costs.
The ideal would be for me to buy the guns from the shop, go through the NICS check myself, and then treat them as private transfers after auction, so people could take them home with them that night. If that's not illegal, though, it's getting awfully close.
The shops want to have one of their employees take the guns to the banquet, watch over them, then have the winners of the auction come to the store sometime in the following days to go through the background check. Also, WI has a 48 hour waiting period on handguns.
Massad Ayoob will be the guest speaker. Given that this is a fund-raiser for CCW in WI, and that Ayoob is such a great speaker, I'm thinking that $75 for a dinner wouldn't be out of line. Your thoughts?
I'm also thinking that the $75 dinner ticket price would apply to a person's bid on an auction item. That might make the $75 price a bit more attractive.
Also, I have almost unlimited choice of guns to auction off: Bushmasters, Les Baer's, Ed Brown's, Wilson's, Kimbers...whatever I want.
I'm thinking, though, that not that many people will be able to bid on a $2000 pistol.
Any thoughts as to what guns would get bid up well?
The banquet is in July, but I'd like to get everything set right now.
Any and all opinions much appreciated.