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.
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.