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Went to a city gun buyback program today.
steve45
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I had never been to one before. It was no questions asked, no paperwork or ID. For each gun you turned in you received a $100.00 gift card for a local grocery store. I had a RG 22 that my father had bought at a yard sale for $20.00. The door opened at 10:00 AM they ran out of gift cards at 10:05. I arrived at 10:30 and was with about 15 people who were waiting for more cards. This buyback was located at a crime-ridden part of town. I started to look around at the people and the guns. Most of the people were like me, white between 50 and 60 (none of us lived in that neighborhood)with some sort of junk gun. There were many old junker revolvers. The best pistol I saw was a Kahr 9MM, the owner had received it from his nephew and he thought it was most likely stolen. One old war rifle was in terrible condition and had the barrel duct taped to the stock. A guy walked in with a backpack and button that said I LUV GUNS and started asking everyone what they had and if they wanted to sell their guns for cash. As I said, most of the guns were junk so after looking at them he talked to the cops running the buyback about what they had received so far. The cops said they had mostly junk but did have a mint condition Winchester 30-30. When the buyer asked if they would sell it they replied that all guns received would be crushed. [:(] About then someone turned in a muzzleloading, percussion, double barrel shotgun that looked very old and authentic. I wasn't allowed to handle it but the officer looking it over said it had a date of 1853 on it. If it was as nice inside the barrels as out I would have paid more than $100.00 for it. When I left after receiving my card I saw the gun buyer was at the end of the parking lot looking at peoples guns before they went inside. All in all an interesting morning.
Comments
I'd sooner sell it on here for $10 than to give it at a gun buy back thing![:(][:(][:(][:(]
your missing the point of helping drain their resources for the pc "good deed"
i believe the guns found out to be stolen should be returned to the rightful owners
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
I'd sooner sell it on here for $10 than to give it at a gun buy back thing![:(][:(][:(][:(]
your missing the point of helping drain their resources for the pc "good deed"
i believe the guns found out to be stolen should be returned to the rightful owners
That would be fine if that is what was going to happen! But do you really believe that a stolen gun that gets turned in to one of those is ever going to see it's rightfull owner?
I would be DAMNED surprised if it did!
*_r_done, I was taking the money of the "Arizonans For Gun Safety" feel good group. 1911a1fan The gun buyer that showed up asked if stolen guns would be returned to their owners. Thats when the police said "all of these guns will be crushed".That is what I disagree with on these programs!
If there is a posibility of the gun being stolen I would rather see a person carry it to a police officer to turn in on the streets and then it may have a possibility of getting to were it really belongs.
quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
I'd sooner sell it on here for $10 than to give it at a gun buy back thing![:(][:(][:(][:(]
your missing the point of helping drain their resources for the pc "good deed"
i believe the guns found out to be stolen should be returned to the rightful owners
That would be fine if that is what was going to happen! But do you really believe that a stolen gun that gets turned in to one of those is ever going to see it's rightfull owner?
I would be DAMNED surprised if it did!
read my statement again "i believe should be returned", that would mean they are not, and it is total bs
however, if the money is coming from the citizens(directly or indirectly) i feel a little reluctant to fleece my common man.
The smart departments collect all of that stuff and sell it here on GunBroker.com They get the items out of their community, make a little cash to supplement their budgets and some lucky buyers get a chance at some hidden treasures that they might ordinarily not have the chance at.
If you find out that is true, I bet it will not last long. Gun dealers will put a stop to it, just as they put a stop to retired law enforcement buying the guns they carried for twenty years.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Doug
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
The smart departments collect all of that stuff and sell it here on GunBroker.com They get the items out of their community, make a little cash to supplement their budgets and some lucky buyers get a chance at some hidden treasures that they might ordinarily not have the chance at.
If you find out that is true, I bet it will not last long. Gun dealers will put a stop to it, just as they put a stop to retired law enforcement buying the guns they carried for twenty years.
When/where did this happen ? It is still in Virginias code that if you have over 20 years in, and are retiring honorably, they must let you have your duty weapon for $1.00...oh, and they charge tax on it as well, so it comes out to $1.05.
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
The smart departments collect all of that stuff and sell it here on GunBroker.com They get the items out of their community, make a little cash to supplement their budgets and some lucky buyers get a chance at some hidden treasures that they might ordinarily not have the chance at.
If you find out that is true, I bet it will not last long. Gun dealers will put a stop to it, just as they put a stop to retired law enforcement buying the guns they carried for twenty years.
I doubt it was dealers, I used to meet several (dealers) at the PD auctions to pick up any deals. It is more like PC local goverments.
Here is one city, they don't have anything up now, but I have seen them sell a couple pistols:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/SellerAuctions.asp?User=602202
The city of Pontiac MI used to hold auctions open to FFL's only, I picked up a few money makers there[;)]
Don
Sounds like the government is running a legal fencing operation. A thief breaks into a few houses, grabs a few guns, and gets a few hundred dollars for them from the cops, no questions asked.
At least they got more guns off the street[:(][:(][:(]
I've never been to one. It doesnt sound like a very effective way to get illegal guns off the streets if that is what it is designed to do. Sounds more like a way to dump a gun that might not otherwise be worth a hundred bucks. Or a way for someone to buy one in line for just over a hundred bucks.
....or a way for some city employees/friends to get some fine weapons..cheap.
quote:Originally posted by *_r_done
I'd sooner sell it on here for $10 than to give it at a gun buy back thing![:(][:(][:(][:(]
your missing the point of helping drain their resources for the pc "good deed"
i believe the guns found out to be stolen should be returned to the rightful owners
It won't "drain" anything.
All it does is embolden the anti-constitution crowd with the fact that people flock to turn in guns.
Facts and details otherwise mean nothing.
What gets reported is that blank-city had a neighborhood gun buy-back program. 350 people turned in x number of guns which will be destroyed by chief snuffy with the blank-city PD.
The other one was a .45 cal cannon model. They put a picture of it in the paper with nothing to reference the size & anyone that didn't know better was left to think it was a full size cannon.
They know they are getting junk & don't care, the whole purpose is a publicity stunt.
I'd be the guy with the backpack. [;)]
What that means is that in any gun buyback the city is:
a. Paying $100 each for junk guns usually worth much less. (IE wasting tax payer money).
b. Effectively defrauding a small number of naive and well-intending citizens who don't know what their property is actually worth.
c. *NOT* taking truly dangerous guns off the streets because those are in the hands of criminals who aren't going to trade them in for $100 each.
quote:Originally posted by Alpine
quote:Originally posted by CaptFun
The smart departments collect all of that stuff and sell it here on GunBroker.com They get the items out of their community, make a little cash to supplement their budgets and some lucky buyers get a chance at some hidden treasures that they might ordinarily not have the chance at.
If you find out that is true, I bet it will not last long. Gun dealers will put a stop to it, just as they put a stop to retired law enforcement buying the guns they carried for twenty years.
I doubt it was dealers, I used to meet several (dealers) at the PD auctions to pick up any deals. It is more like PC local goverments.
Here is one city, they don't have anything up now, but I have seen them sell a couple pistols:
http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/SellerAuctions.asp?User=602202
The city of Pontiac MI used to hold auctions open to FFL's only, I picked up a few money makers there[;)]
Don
It was gun dealers. and it was in San Diego. Just about the time I retired they were switching over to Glocks, and they offered to let us buy our Model 66 for more than the department paid at $300. The Deputy Sheriff Assoc was goint of be the FFL transfer dealer and the gun dealers put a stop to it.
Oh yeah, the gun dealers would let us buy a used 66 for $450, but there was no guarntee that we would get the gun that we had carried for 20 years.
Margaret Thatcher
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."
Mark Twain
Do they accept BB guns? [:p]
Depends on who's running it. At the one in L.A. that I went to many years ago the guy ahead of me turned in a broken BB gun & got his two hockey tickets for it. It was all about numbers for the publicity & of course the hockey tickets were donated by the Kings so the police didn't care about the cost.