![]() “Every firearm that was on our inventory was listed and transferred to, and everything that was purchased through this is in our inventory and came directly to us,” Wainwright said. The Auburn gun shop was flexible on timing, took broken weapons and offered a better deal than large gun vendors, which gave him lower verbal quotes, Oxford County Sheriff Christopher Wainwright said. That’s the whole point of transparency,” said Dennis Kenney, a professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York. “It may not mean that there’s anything nefarious, but it certainly could. There are legal restrictions on how police dispose of firearms if they were used in a crime, so receipts confirm that what police say they did with the guns is what actually happened. It’s important for police departments to keep organized and complete records of all transactions, especially guns, to avoid the appearance of impropriety, said one former police officer who teaches criminal justice. “We just paid the bill, so there was no money out of Oxford County’s pocket.” The sheriff’s office “ordered directly through a law enforcement wholesaler,” Pelletier said. In return, the store paid gun distributors for service weapons and ammunition on the sheriff’s office behalf. Reid’s Gun Shop in Auburn took in guns from the sheriff’s office to mark up and sell in its store, said Jamie Pelletier, who manages the federally licensed gun shop. But they do not reflect payment for all the weapons the sheriff’s office received. Among other items, the county provided copies of about 30 checks it wrote for guns and related items over the last four years. Through a public records request in October, the Bangor Daily News asked Oxford County for financial records showing the firearms and ammunition the county has bought, sold and traded for since Jan. “I just had a hard time, as you’re having a hard time, putting it all together.” “It’s not exactly how I would have liked it to happen, to be honest,” Durrah said.
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