Posted on 02/14/2013 9:36:19 AM PST by marktwain
Proposed Deodand Pistol, suggested retail, $74.99, a considerable savings over current buyback or turn in prices.
The presidential push for gun bans has reinvigorated the medieval practice of labeling objects as guilty deodands with gun buybacks or turn ins. Organizers of the turn in events typically insist that the guns be destroyed rather than sold do individuals or dealers to provided needed resources to police departments and to reduce demands on taxpayers.
In response to increased demand, gun manufacturers would do well to consider producing special deodand or turn in models. These could satisfy the demand for ceremonial destruction of evil firearms with lower loss of resources than the current system. As a bonus, those who wish to perform these ceremonies could buy the deodand guns in bulk, directly from the manufacturers, at considerable savings.
These guns should be labeled on the frame with a warning similar to this Warning: Deodand or turn in model. Made for ceremonial purposes of gun destruction only. May be used in any buyback or other ceremony. Not made to ordinary commercial standards.
Ads for these guns should include the warning as well as encouragement: Melt all you want, we will make more!
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Very true
I want to produce $50 guns to turn in at those events by the hundreds for a profit. :)
Participating in a gun buy back is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.
I don’t care if a 3D printer pistol is only good for a few shots. If it will shoot more than once and costs less to print than the socialists are paying per weapon, I would be happy to print hundreds. The do-gooders will feel like they have done their good deed for the day (disarming law-abiding citizens so that they hope only criminals will be armed), and I will have done my good deed for the day (separating socialists from their money). Everybody wins.
After looking up “Deodand,” the proposed pistols make wonderful sense. Kinda like throwing a dummy virgin into the volcano...
If somebody would just start cranking out $2.75 liberators again, that would be something. Maybe in portable and target models.
That is completely correct. Well put.
I want to produce $50 guns to turn in at those events by the hundreds for a profit. :)
Fifteen to twenty years ago pawn shops brought 55 gallon drums full of very nice looking .38 caliber short, black power pistols. Most had nice rolled engraving on them. The .38 cal short was made from pot metal and sold for as little as one dollar. I think they were made from about 1890 to the late 20s. Apparently pawn shops have thousands of them. They were selling them for $15 for those who wanted to take them to the $30 gun buy-back then being advertised.
Incidentally, the .38 cal short will chamber and fire a 9mm Luger round. It may or may not hold together for a few rounds.
They DO make Liberators for the collector market. But they cost about $500 and come in a box with illustrated instructions, just like the original.
But, unlike the original they have rifled barrels; smoothbore barrels are apparently illegal or require a special license - turn it into a shotgun pistol or something....
Depends upon whom supplied the spearm
It is more like separating socialists from our money. They do not use their own money for any of this crap.
A company has started making Liberators again, but the new ones are rifled and made of heat treated steel. $500 though.
Thanks! that will be a new search obsession, just cause they are so cool. Anyone see the Viet Nam era version? Plastic body, screw in 9mm barrel, pull the striker back and go.
Both bear collecting.
Again, Thanks!
Manufacturer is Vintage Ordnance:
http://vintageordnance.homestead.com/Liberator.html
Never seen the the Viet Nam era version. Any pictures?
I only knew ‘deodand’ from Jack Vance’s Dying Earth. I thought it was probably some sort of mythical monster or something.
Anyhow, the concept is nuncupatory.
Freegards
Make a model that takes a cheap 16 round magazine, and *instant assault weapon* now worth between $150 and $250 at current turn in events or “buybacks”.
I do wish we could eschew obfuscation.
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