[DrSmeller]

So we had a gun buy back this weekend here in Cleveland - much advertised on the local news. 350 people brought in a total of 421 guns. You get a $100 gas card for each gun. I was thinking i've got a gun or two i wouldn't mind trading for $100 gas card but it was in downtown Cleveland and didn't want the parking problems etc.

Anyway, they had footage this morning of people as they brought their guns in. The two people they interviewed were upfront about the junk guns they had. The one guy had two pistols he found at the bottom of a lake while scuba diving. He said "hey, i'm just paying for my hobby". The next guy leaned over in his car and said "I'm bringing in a $20 shotgun for a $100 gas card.

The news reporter was then beaming about what a sucess the buy back was and how it got 400+ guns off the street. I guess he was too stupid to realize what was happening.

 

[bigbird1]

were there any gun dealers set up near the buyback? wonder who paid for the program, US!!! the tax payers. It just amazes me to see this stuff still taking place. you would think they would learn by now.

 

[glockhead]

i'm with you Dr

i remember them doing this a few years back during Mike White's administration. What a joke. We turned in junk. Anything of any value was sold in the same line. I hope they do it again soon. I have some crap to sell.

 

[CUE7467]

I remember going to one of those gun buy backs when I was young. We took an old BB gun and got tickets to a Metallica/Gun's & Roses concert. Sold the tickets for $75 or $100.

 

[UncleDad]

I heard a report of this on the radio. They had the mayor? or the guy running the program talking about some of the guns. He mentioned a derringer and how easily it could be concealed, then he said something like..and this one is a .22, its incredibly deadly and can fire very rapidly....

Also, what are the laws about a buyback program? Could a gun shop or anyone do a buyback program? Could you take out an ad in the paper advertising a gun buyback, and just set up a storefront or stand somewhere and offer a flat fee for guns? As long as you can do a private transfer/sale in your state, would this be legal?

 

[scotty1418]

I also saw this on the news since its my local. The part that DiSGUSTED me was that one of the news tv stations quoted a police official saying most of the guns were coming from attics and older 'folk' but that these were likely used in crimes so it was good to get them off the street.

i was shocked at that statement!

Scott

 

[alamosaddles]

If doing a buyback, I wonder if that does not qualify as "dealing in guns" and therefore require an FFL in order to operate it.

 

[Pvt.Joker]

I also saw this on the news since its my local. The part that DiSGUSTED me was that one of the news tv stations quoted a police official saying most of the guns were coming from attics and older 'folk' but that these were likely used in crimes so it was good to get them off the street.

i was shocked at that statement!

Scott

I guess they must be part of that "crips" gang, eh? But what REALLY concerns me is WHY do all these old people have their attics located in the middle of the streets? Won't Grandpa get ran over by a bus when he goes to drag down the christmas tree????

 

[KABAR2]

I Knew a dealer in N.Y. who would usually take about 100 junkers that weren't worth more than 10 or 15 bucks apiece......... The cash money he made from the buy back he put back into stock, and put more and better quality guns in the hands of the general public. he looked at it this way the guns he gave them were junk, he got 10 times what he had in them or could get for them, it took resources away from the anti-gunners and the money was used to supply people with what they were really looking for. Now the anti's give gas cards and Walmart gift cards..... So I guess you'd have to buy gas to go to the gun show, or buy lots of ammo at Walmart.

 

[174th gunner]

shame

the shame they bon't have one here for i still have a 55 gallon barel full of Katrna guns that i'm saving for parts out in the shed must be 30 to 35 old junkers there.that whould be a good x-mas present!

 

[scotty1418]

I also noticed that. Only gas cards...no longer cash.

 

[hotchkissmtrifle]

If I took in a .22 cal Gatling would they count each barrel as a gun? Each has its own lock and bolt? Seriously, I wouldn't turn in a gun I drug up with the trencher, just a matter of principal! Hotch

 

[Pvt.Joker]

I also noticed that. Only gas cards...no longer cash.

Are you kidding? Gas is going UP in value; the dollar is going down...

 

[Dan @ Angola Armory]

"I Knew a dealer in N.Y. who would usually take about 100 junkers that weren't worth more than 10 or 15 bucks apiece......... The cash money he made from the buy back he put back into stock, and put more and better quality guns in the hands of the general public. he looked at it this way the guns he gave them were junk, he got 10 times what he had in them or could get for them, it took resources away from the anti-gunners and the money was used to supply people with what they were really looking for. Now the anti's give gas cards and Walmart gift cards..... So I guess you'd have to buy gas to go to the gun show, or buy lots of ammo at Walmart."

Hey, I resemble that remark. Probally not me, but thats how I got rid of the stripped, rusty, pot metal hand guns and junker guns in my shop. The second, and last time in Buffalo NY, they had a buy-back I was on the local news being asked what I was going to do with all that cash. I'm still suprised to this day that that viewed my answer : more guns and ammo of course! Sad parts were the dealers working the line were hustled into patrol cars a driven downtown (not arrested) and made to walk or take a cab back to the collection point. An elderly lady in front of me had her deceased husbands collection of original derringers in a BV bag, wouldn't sell them to the dealers working the line, when I got into the collection trailer just behind her, they were not anywhere to be seen amounst all the collected weapons. The cops were skimming off the cream!
True story.
Dan

 

[MP-40]

Buy Back? HA!

How in the hell do you "Buy Back" something that was never yours??????

 

[Shattered]

Well, actually they're getting a bit smarter.

With this deal the guns HAD to be functional. I guess as long as they went click when the trigger was pulled, I dunno. Junkers were not turned away, you just didn't get the voucher or you could walk away with the piece of crap.

But I digress, they still don't get it. CT did this once back in the day... once. They got screwed ROYAL by the gun owners (who, by da way, are highly organized). Dealers were lining up outside the cop shops with shopping carts full of Jennings, Bryco and other guns that dealer price were less than $50 ($25-38 each) and getting $200 vouchers to places like Stop & shop, Best Buy, etc.

Now get this. They were offering $500!!! vouchers for assault weapons (Ooooo!, evil). The dealers were putting 30 rd magazines on SKS's and selling them to the public AS turn in material for the vouchers!! Dealer cost of an SKS was $49, mag was $20-25. Think they crowed over 600 "assault rifles" were taken off the street. God, this was the safest I felt in a long time.

The entire episode cost the State of CT almost 6 times the money it had allocated for it's ill advised publicity campaign. Several Dems got the boot that year.

By da way, Mittal Steel pledged something like $35 thou for the Clev buyback. I think other "feel good" idiots put up bucks also. It didn't ALL come from the State of the Buckeye.

I NEED to know if this is going to happen again in the near future. Think Century had a bunch of "functional" guns that were really pieces of crap but would go bang for dirt cheap... even cheaper if you blew like $1000 and helped to clean out the back room . I can't remember where I saw it, but turn of the century rifles (really crap) for something like $10-20 ea. That would be a lot of gas.

 

[Flash-hider]

How in the hell do you "Buy Back" something that was never yours??????

This comes from years of conditioning the public that the government allows you to have things. (i.e. money, your house, my farm, everybody's guns)
They allow you to believe the grand illusion that your actually own something during your lifetime. However, the gov't demands tribute thru taxation when you are alive and after you die, the twisted opinion of SCOTUS regarding eminent domain, and the back door schemes that slowly take away our 2A rights, the powers to be have got all of us where they want us, and they will keep squeezing until we have given the remainder to them.
Remember, what ever the government giveth, the government taketh away.