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30+ sakos in Riihimäki auction 17.2.

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Company is Republic of Finland :D. It is police auction. They have no proper website for these auctions. I think that they still might send a photo from specific gun if asked nicely and explain that you are overseas...

here is the contacts that I found:

Susanna Kouvalainen, puh. +358295 481 958

[email protected]
 
Thanks for that excellent information, Olli! "Police auctions" here in the U.S. rarely have high quality firearms as most of those which the police come into possession of are confiscated in criminal investigations and tend to be of marginal quality and of little interest to most shooting enthusiasts. On the other hand, I'm guessing that while some of the firearms in the Finnish offering come from similar circumstances, many of them are from people or estates who no longer wish to keep their firearms (for varying reasons), so they are turned over to the state. Am I correct on this or do the firearms come from some other set of circumstances?
 
This reminds me of one of my favorite Finnish language quirks - the Finnish word for auction translates literally into English as "Shouting-Sale." Practical, and appropriate, and quite amusing.

That list contains some things that would be real treasures over here. The several L46 Sako rifles in 7x33 would cause quite a commotion among American Sako collectors. From my own point of view, I'd be all over the FN-Sako in 7x57 and the Tampereen Asepaja .22 target rifle. Beyond that, there are quite a few Mosin-Nagants converted to hunting rifles, some of them in those unique Finnish calibers like 9.3x53R. I'd also want to have a look at the various Finnish military and captured Soviet pieces. I see a Luger there that is probably ex-Army, a Nagant revolver that might be a wartime capture, and a number of 7.65mm pistols that I would examine for SA or Sk.Y markings. There are a few Finnish surplus rifles, which I would also examine for unusual markings and features. Back on the civilian side, I'd take a long, serious look at the assortment of Tikka M55 and other Tikka rifles. And, I'd of course have a look at all the Sakos, especially any full-stock versions or other unusual versions. I also noticed a lot of custom-built guns, mostly on Mosin-Nagant actions but others as well. One would want to have a good look at the custom guns.

Thanks for posting this. Wish I could bid, but my Finnish firearms license expired in the 90's.
 
Thanks for that excellent information, Olli! "Police auctions" here in the U.S. rarely have high quality firearms as most of those which the police come into possession of are confiscated in criminal investigations and tend to be of marginal quality and of little interest to most shooting enthusiasts. On the other hand, I'm guessing that while some of the firearms in the Finnish offering come from similar circumstances, many of them are from people or estates who no longer wish to keep their firearms (for varying reasons), so they are turned over to the state. Am I correct on this or do the firearms come from some other set of circumstances?

These firearms are indeed from people or estates who are not able or willing to keep them. Firearms that are used in crime are disposed to raw material by law. Once in a while there are some real valuable guns like ww2 machine guns in these auctions.
 
Once in a while there are some real valuable guns like ww2 machine guns in these auctions.
The only machine gun in this auction seems to be some kind of Chinese 9mm. I'm not sure what that would be, as I thought Chinese SMG's were mainly chambered in 7.63 Tokarev. Maybe somebody converted it, or maybe they made some in 9mm for export.
 
The only machine gun in this auction seems to be some kind of Chinese 9mm. I'm not sure what that would be, as I thought Chinese SMG's were mainly chambered in 7.63 Tokarev. Maybe somebody converted it, or maybe they made some in 9mm for export.

I would assume it is chinese copy of ppsh-41... DP-27 would be nice... Licencing would become impossible since we got the new (2019) EU compliant gun law.
 
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