Posted on 02/11/2013 6:57:25 AM PST by marktwain
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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