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.
If I’m not mistaken, California gun laws require that private sales must be done through a licensed dealer. Many states obviously don’t have that requirement.
Naw thats not 760 its a Remington model 572 22RF with a tubluar mag. Even looks like the muzzle may be treaded.
One those made to meet the 94 gun band. No flash hider no bayonet lug.
One should never turn in a working firearm. The police love nothing better than to show them off like they were captured trophies from an enemy.
Captured guns were always proof of victory, that is why armies of the past went to great pains to destroy equipment left behind.
Several years ago there was an “Indian uprising” in Canada. After peace was negotiated, the Indians piled their AK-47s up and burned them so the Canadian authorities could not parade them before the public as a victory over the Indians.
Not sure about the law but people should be very careful buying guns under these conditions.
These “buy-back” programs are a no questions asked kind of thing. The only reason someone would turn in a $1,800 FN-FAL for 125 bucks is because it is STOLEN and they know it.
I wounder how many of these guns are checked out to see if they were stolen. I wounder if the authorities are attempting to get any of the guns back to the rightful owners.
In essence what we have going on here is the government is paying criminals to steal our property, “no questions asked”. Truly a master stroke turning burglars into agents of the government. Hey if the government can’t take away your guns legally they can sure pay some criminals to do it for them.
Most of these turn-ins that I have read of claim to check the guns serial numbers to see if they are stolen. Typically, on 1-2 percent of the guns turn up stolen.
As for people turning in guns that are valuable for peanuts, at the last Tucson turn in, a gun owner insisted on turning in a mint Colt Python for $100, even though he was offered several hundred dollars for it.
He wanted to be sure the gun was destroyed.
Sort of a “Potlatch” ritual, I guess.
Many of the people turning in the guns are widows who inherited them and have no idea of their value. At the Lansing turn-in last Saturday, someone turned in a matched pair of pearl handled 1911 type pistols for $100 each.
That SHOULD BE a crime (turning in 1911’s at a buyback).
Any of mine that I haven’t given to my nephews or other relatives at such time as I feel the impending shuffling off of the coil coming will go into “deep future patriot storage”...
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