Posted on 09/18/2014 4:27:07 PM PDT by marktwain
I missed the notifications of this 8 September 2014 event. It seems that those notifications are coming closer and closer to the event date, almost as if those conducting the events do not want anyone to do any pre-planning. Toledo has a checkered history of police bullying private buyers and sellers. Buckeyefirearms.org did a great job of exposing this last year, with four videos: Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, and Video 4. It did not matter much. There were plenty of private buyers there this year.
This year, the police seem to have learned more about the law. Maybe it was the bad publicity. Here is what the Toledo Blade reported:
In addition to attracting people willing to trade in their guns for cash, the buyback drew private gun buyers and collectors who were willing to pay people cash.
Larry Lorms of Columbus was willing to offer more than $50, possibly $300 to $400, depending on the model, age, and condition.
Sergeant Madison said she was aware of the buyers outside the church.
“That is their right to be there. We are not concerned about them,” she said. “Our mission is to provide a service to our community. We are not trying to pressure people to get rid of guns they want to keep.”I have not seen how many private sales were conducted. Last year the turn in event brought in at least two nice S&W revolvers. A total of 185 guns were collected, and 90 pounds of ammunition!
FYI. These people do estate and commercial auctions and can ship! Guns are shipped to a local arms dealer for pickup to meet Fedrool statutes!!
http://rasmus.com/auction/239579/estate-firearms-collection-online-internet-auction/
Of course, they get these guns, don’t do ballistic tests on them for the several unsolved gun related murders and do the killers bidding by destroying the evidence for them. Do they even record the serial numbers? do they even take down the name of the person dropping off the gun? Does the person dropping off the gun need a picture ID to complete the transaction.?
This is a complete waste of time since the only guns they collect that are worth anything are probably hot or linked to a crime and they just want rid of them. Any quality gun can be resold for so much more money.
All of the “buy back” programs I ever read about is a no questions asked purchase of guns. So no there is no ID of the seller.
Several but not all of the buy backs I have read about said that there would be ballistics test of the guns to find if they were used in a crime.
This has always seemed a stupid waste of time to me because of the no questions asked policy. I also thought that is would be next to impossible because of the number of guns these programs could produce, the man hours required for a ballistics tech to check all of the guns would be enormous. Not to mention that the chances of a gun used in a crime showing up at one of these buy backs is incredibly small.
On some models, the marks left on bullets are so similar, that all a ballistic test can tell you is the caliber and generic model, such as “it was fired from a 9mm Glock”.
I recall one case where several officers were firing during an altercation. Ballistics could not determine which gun the fatal bullet came from.
“I recall one case where several officers were firing during an altercation. Ballistics could not determine which gun the fatal bullet came from. “
Couldn’t tell, or didn’t want to know?
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