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“What I see from that picture is someone that figured they could get $350 instead of $50-$150,” said Mark Morelli.
Morelli is a retired Hamilton police officer and an avid gun collector.
As the man behind The Canadian Gun Vault, Morelli is familiar with the prices that the guns in the photos would get on the open market.
Some collectors who were licensed and legally-owned certain types of guns prior to the Liberal gun control legislation enacted in 1995 were grandfathered and allowed to keep those guns.
But since they can only sell to similarly licenced people, Morelli said the market is diminishing and most of the pistols in the photo would fetch between $50 and $150 if sold to another collector.
“He’s getting $350 for guns with diminishing value,” Morelli said.