In my part of Missouri, and with the local auctioneers (and for what little it's worth other than to cloud the issue even more), if the sale is an estate sale -- one owner -- and held on the premises of the owner (or former owner), then guns can be sold to individuals without NICS checks. Any other kind of auction that includes guns, including an estate sale held "off-premises", sales must have a NICS check (unless, of course, the buyer is licensed). The idea is that an estate sale on the premises is consider a person-to-person sale. (BTW, these almost never happen anymore, and the NICS is used pretty much universally).
Now, if you want to go to Iowa, you have to have a license to buy a gun at an auction.
If you want to go to Illinois...well, that's another country and it has all of its own laws. I feel for Rock Island trying to manage the Illinois AND federal laws.
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