Posted on 02/11/2013 6:57:25 AM PST by marktwain
You can help take valuable guns like these off the street.
Across the country, communities, police departments and churches are sponsoring gun turn-ins to get "guns off the street". At many of these events, private buyers are showing up, offering cash for the more valuable guns. These private additions to the public turn-in are effective, no doubt, in getting more guns off the street, because they add to the resources that are available to those who want to get rid of guns for something of value, be it a grocery card or a number of twenty dollar bills. These private efforts are often hampered by lack of parking space, intimidation by police officers, and ignorance of the people turning in the guns, as many fear the transaction might be illegal.
You can help make the turn-in in your area more effective! When one is announced, simply let those running the event know that you are willing to help. Instead of standing on the curve with your "Cash for Guns" sign, offer to stand with the police inside the event, and be willing to offer more than the gift card for firearms that are more valuable. It would be best if numerous private parties were available, as more good guns could then be transferred into responsible hands.
This action serves many useful purposes. It stretches the turn-in budget so that more guns can be taken off the street. It helps keep fearful widows from being defrauded of most of the market value of the gun they are turning in. It prevents valuable assets from being destroyed by bureaucratic inflexibility. It is a win-win-win situation.
Be sure to make the offer in a public way. It would be good if a letter with the offer were published on the web and in the local paper. It is hard for me to see how this offer could be turned down in good faith.
Please let us know the results of this approach.
Dean Weingarten
©2013 by Dean Weingarten Permission to share granted as long as this notice is included.
Bottom one looks like an H&R 12 gauge single shot. I’d like to have that one to cut down and trash out.
FN FAL rifle.
My eyes aren’t so good anymore, so it could be a SxS in 410 or 20 gauge.
Given the scale of private ownership of firearms in America, these gub’mnt sponsored events are essentially meaningless.
Browning semi-auto .22 on top
A pump Remington .22 next to bottom.
Looks more like the CTME copy in .308
If we have one I plan to take some green and do a little shopping.
That little .22 Browning is a highly collectable item.
The bottom one looks like Charles Daly 20ga 26inch barrels double triggers made in japan.
The rest look like junk not decent double rifle among them.
I just magnified it. Does look like a SxS 20 gauge. Make a nice cut-down home defense shotty if it has ejectors.
Would such activity be found to be an ad hoc gunshow and make background checks required?
Leftists are always talking about using buy-backs to remove unwanted guns from the homes of people no longer interested in keeping them.
Isn’t tht the entire purpose of gun shows? Every gun show should start billing itself as a gun buy back program.
I can’t find the article but I saw something recently where gun rights supporters stationed themselves across the street from a buy back event and offered cash to buy guns from the people waiting in line.
Chicago gun buyback unknowingly raises money for NRA kids’ gun camp
By Isolde Raftery, msnbc.com
Chicago’s firearm buyback program, titled “Don’t kill a dream, save a life,” aims to get dangerous weapons off the street. But a pro-gun rights group gleefully says it used the program to turn in “non-firing junk” to raise money for a National Rifle Association youth shooting camp.
Seattle Gun BuyBack Gets JACKED! Turns Into a Damn Gun Show! LOL
Posted by Ed Brown on Jan 27, 2013 in Featured, LOL
cash-for-gunsPolice officers in Seattle, Washington held their first gun buyback program in 20 years this weekend, underneath interstate 5, and soon found that private gun collectors were working the large crowd as little makeshift gun shows began dotting the parking lot and sidewalks. Some even had “cash for guns” signs prominently displayed.
Police stood in awe as gun enthusiasts and collectors waved wads of cash for the guns being held by those standing in line for the buyback program.
People that had arrived to trade in their weapons for $100 or $200 BuyBack gift cards($100 for handguns, shotguns and rifles, and $200 for assault weapons) soon realized that gun collectors were there and paying top dollar for collectible firearms. So, as the line for the chump cards got longer and longer people began to jump ship and head over to the dealers.
John Diaz, Seattles Police Chief, wasn’t pleased with the turn of events stating “I’d prefer they wouldn’t sell them,” but admitted it’s perfectly legal for private individuals to buy and sell guns, FOR NOW. Mayor Mike McGinn said at a news conference the private transactions are a loophole that needs to be closed. “There’s no background checks, and some (guns) could be exchanged on the streets that shouldn’t be in circulation.”
http://dcxposed.com/2013/01/27/seattle-gun-buyback-gets-jacked-turns-into-a-damn-gun-show-lol/
Nah, the charging handle position is too far to the rear. That's an FN-FAL, most likely an Austrian Stg-58 clone.
LA Gun Buyback 2012: Wednesday Offers Angelenos Grocery Gift Cards For Guns (VIDEO)
Posted: 12/26/2012 12:54 pm EST | Updated: 12/26/2012 8:16 pm EST
The city's fourth annual buyback is taking place Wednesday at both the Los Angeles Sports Arena in downtown Los Angeles and the Van Nuys Masonic Temple from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Gun owners will be able to turn in their firearms and ammunition with no questions asked. In exchange, they will receive a grocery gift card for amounts based on the value of the gun. Handguns, rifles and shotguns will get up to $100, and assault weapons will get up to $200.
Only if you are mis-informed about the law. There is no "magic" thing about gun shows and the so-called "gun show loophole" does not exist except in the minds of the uninformed.
Sales by gun dealers always require background checks while sales between private parties do not. The "loophole" is that most gun shows allow private sellers to set up a table to sell their private collection. Since those sales are between private parties, there are no background checks required. This is no different that if you were to sell your shotgun to your next door neighbor.
Actually, you would be perfectly in your rights to set up a gun show where all sellers were private parties. All sales would therefore be between private sellers and buyers and thus, no background checks would be needed. The only exception would be that the private sellers must live in the same state.
The top one is a St. Browning design Remington semi-auto .22 often used in arcades, I’ve got one from 1927. The pump gun w/ scope is a Rem 760, my grandfather (late) has one chambered in 30-06. The double barrel shotgun looks like either a Fox or Baker (American makers)
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