In order to participate in the GunBroker Member forums, you must be logged in with your GunBroker.com account. Click the sign-in button at the top right of the forums page to get connected.
Options
Police selling guns from buyback Program!
serf
Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
Gosh turn in a fine hunting rifle for 100 bucks and the cops sell it for 200 bucks to a gun dealer! What a rip-off again from the government!Seize by the courts? More like profit by the courts![:D]
serf
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20130531-114407-6464
St. Charles Police Chief James Lamkin said about 20 firearms obtained through a gun buyback program and seized by courts will be sold to the dealers, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
serf
http://www.breitbart.com/system/wire/upiUPI-20130531-114407-6464
St. Charles Police Chief James Lamkin said about 20 firearms obtained through a gun buyback program and seized by courts will be sold to the dealers, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Comments
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
+1
There have been numerous threads here about agencies destroying firearms that came into their hands (turn ins, confiscated, recovered from crimes, ect) rather than reselling them. This one goes back 11 years but there are many others:
http://forums.GunBroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=36953
Squander tax payer dollars taking guns of the street, pound their chest and crow about it and then sell these same guns to dealers who will in turn sell them to private citizens. In essence putting them right back, as they would call it, back on the street.
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
Of course not but the local government is two face on the issue and if you have a gun stolen without the serial number being taken & reported then the government is not going to return it back to the owner. Off to the gun dealer it goes!
serf
I'd wager most people don't maintain a current list of serial numbers. I keep two. One here at home and one at my fathers in case something happens to the one here.
Is it really a ripoff ? did anyone force the people to take them to a buy back? or is it more of a case of a agency turning a profit because people didnt want them and were too lazy or impatient to sell them to a dealer themselves.
No it's if your too lazy to copy,file and report a firearm stolen is where they play the game even though the BATF has a record or will have.
Now let's say a gun is used in a political murder and dropped by the assailant and then pick up by our government authorities,just how fast can they track down the original owner? There's your loophole to getting hot guns legitimately!What probably 70% of all guns turned in!
serf
Second people willingly buy them and just about any gun as long as its in good shape is a good deal at 200 bucks.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
[Insert irrational emotional outrage here]
Strongly worded letter to follow! [;)]
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
That's what we do....sigh, cut them up/crush them twice a year.
They take in guns from the street from idiots stupid enough to turn them in for $100.
You know the serial #'s get ran, illegal or evidence kept, other sold back to dealer.
They may possibly get a crime gun every once in a while & make some money from the deal.
The guns don't get destroyed & people have the chance to buy them.
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
If the department bought with the intent to sell, shouldn't the BATFE investigate?
Unless the department holds an FFL, of course.
[:)]
Brad Steele
quote:Originally posted by nunn
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
If the department bought with the intent to sell, shouldn't the BATFE investigate?
Unless the department holds an FFL, of course.
[:)]
An excellent point, Don McManus.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
+1
People are stupid. And some are real stupid.
A neighbor of mine told me once after her father died that her Mother had a bunch of "high quality" guns she wanted to sell. She was having a hard time making it on her Social Security and very limited savings. My neighbor told me her Father worked for a very successful small business and the owner gave him "engraved high quality Browning shotgun rifles and shotguns" all through the 50's through the 70's as bonus's. And they were stacked up in Browning boxes in various closets. Names like Diana Grade and Pigeon Grade were on the boxes.
I told her, your Mother may be sitting on a gold mine and I would be interested in buying all of them.
A few months later, I asked about the guns and she told me her Mother just gave them to the local police so she wouldn't get in any trouble.
Yup, true story.
Would you rather see them cut up? Seriously?
NO but I think the fact they are selling them shows that buy backs should not be done in the first place.
Selling buy back guns. Is that so they can buy them back again? [?][?][?]