| Author | Message | ||
     Bob_thompson |
After posting a few things elsewhere on BadWeb to get a reprise from all the gun talk, I had a great thought with one exception. A gun buy back has been offered by the mayor of NYC similar to what went on in Australia. His was $200.00 for any gun turned in. Now suppose I had an old shootable 7mm Mauser or something similar I got for nothing. Now I could turn that in if we ended up with that option and put that toward a newer better weapon. The drawback is, it is at least one piece "they" don't know about and also I do not believe it will ever happen here in the great FREE state of Utah. And I'd have to wait a while until shelves were again stocked. Here we go again....... Your thoughts? | ||
| Nukeblue |
with all the craze now i've had no trouble moving any of the 'red headed step children' laying around. sks, cetme, etc. i'd sell it on the street. people are paying good money for anything. what do they do with these firearms once you turn them anyhoo? | ||
| Aesquire |
Mostly they destroy them. A few "disappear" into the hands of cops and Bureaucrats who see a great deal. In one recent case an old lady showed up with an actual "Assault Rifle" a Sturmgewehr 44! ( the gun the subset of machine gun is named after, AKA the Original, the Trope Namer. ) http://gma.yahoo.com/blogs/abc-blogs/valuable-wwii -gun-police-buy-back-022155231--abc-news-topstorie s.html IF that gun had been registered before Bush the Elder signed a really crappy gun control law banning any new full auto's in circulation, it'd be worth a Fortune! as is, only a Museum could buy it, and only after it had been "dewated" ( deactivated War Trophy ) broken so it can never shoot again. Pity. It's a very significant bit of history. Rare. | ||
| Hootowl |
"to get a reprise from all the gun talk" Do you mean reprieve? I've turned in a broken 22 rifle and had enough to buy a new 22 rifle and a brick of ammo. This was in the early 90s. Interesting day. There were hundreds of people waiting in line to turn in their guns. I'd have to say that fewer than 10% of them appeared to be functional. One looked as if it had been in a house fire. The police were dutifully making their way through the line, zip tying the bolts and receivers open, so as to make these largely inoperable weapons 'safe'. It was a bit comical. We all got our $100 at the end of the line though. I have a feeling I'm not the only one who went out and bought a new gun with the money. The City of Federal Way Washington decided that they would never do another buyback program. It cost them thousands, and gained them nothing but more functional guns in the hands of their citizenry. While that is a laudable objective, it wasn't theirs. (Message edited by hootowl on January 15, 2013) | ||
| Badlionsfan |
Cleveland has done buy backs in the past, don't remember how much they paid per gun tho. They tossed them into a blast furnace at a steel mill and melted them down iirc. | ||
| Sidepipe79 |
If one happened around here I would go shopping in the line. If I find a decent gun I could get a deal by offering $50 more than the buyback program | ||
| Bob_thompson |
Another interesting note; all the administration, (read Obama), did with all his proposals is increase the ability of ALL our citizens to defend themselves against an oppressive government and anybody that would take something dear to our hearts. our faith, our families safety and most of all our freedoms. He IS failing. | ||
| Froggy |
Some town in Connecticut was planning on doing a similar program but with video games instead of guns, I was half tempted to show up with a stack of "junk" games that aren't sellable and then taking the cash to buy new games. Needless to say they canceled the event a few days before it was supposed to happen. | ||
| Babired |
that's a good idea get the cash for an old gun you got for free to get a newer better one! In Baltimore that won't happen their gun buy back program is, turn in your gun and get a $100.00 Grocery gift card at a local chain. Gun for food! | ||
| M1combat |
You can also go and attempt to purchase the guns from the people trying to turn them in. just look through the crowd for anything that seems to be worth something and make the person an offer. It happens here in AZ and the cops tend to chuckle. | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
There was a group of gun enthusiasts that took unworkable junk guns from a forum and would go to the buy back places and get $100 for rusty old crap. They then spent the Thousands of dollars to benefit a youth marksmanship camp. Delicious. I'm kicking myself for throwing out the rusty remanants of the old SEARS single shot .22 action I found. I just cut it up and threw it in the kitchen trash  | ||
| Airbozo |
At a recent gun buyback in Los Angles, there were at least 2 rocket launchers turned in... Must be tough to get reloads... | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I bet they were L.A.W. that were used. Cardboard tubes | ||
| Mr_grumpy |
Fellow in the UK got taken to court many years ago for possession of a Bazooka & it's accompanying munitions. He'd tried to explain to the police, but they weren't interested, so he just shut up & waited for his day in court. Judge started laying into him & again he waited til the old duffer had run down, then he said that it was technically a shotgun & that he had a shotgun certificate. Court was adjourned until the legal definition of a shotgun could be produced, it being "A smooth bored weapon with a barrel of not less than 18 inches." The court had to admit that technically it was in fact classable as a shotgun, but that the shells required a Class 2 explosives licence. At this point, the chap reaches into his pocket & produces the necessary paper explaining that he was the blasting chief at the local quarry. Case dismissed & lots of red faces. Needless to say the laws & definitions were changed very shortly afterwards. | ||
| Sifo |
I know a guy in CA that mail ordered a couple of shoulder fired rocket launchers back around 2002 from somewhere in South America. This was the second time the feds busted his door down. He did time in the pen for that one. | ||
| F22raptor |
I thought everybody had a least 2 or 3 RPGs....Man, I could not sleep without knowing they were there.. | ||
| Aesquire |
I'm on record as suggesting 2 permits required for RPG's. 1 for the weapon ( launcher ) using the same rules as a SBR or suppressor, and another for the ammo. I base that on the concept that you should know how to store high explosives safely in your home or shop. I'm pretty darn libertarian, but there really ought to be a few anti-moron rules. You want to drink drano? Evolution in action. You want to make grenade mobiles hanging them by the pins? I don't want you next door. The local police got very testy when I tried to browse the last gun-buy-back. Looking for that Garand, Arisaka, Mauser, etc. |
