Posted on 01/22/2015 6:12:24 AM PST by marktwain
Fred Meyer Gift Cards will be available for working order guns (limit 3 gift cards per person, but more than 3 guns will be accepted). All firearms must be unloaded and transported in the trunk of your car or comparably secured in your pickup truck. No questions asked.It is the essence of silly to pay money for valuable merchandise in order to destroy it. Clearly, one of the primary purposes of this political theater is to drive home the propaganda message that guns are bad and should be turned into the police. Private buyers at these events destroy that message, because clearly, if they are paying cash for guns, guns are valuable. Because they are doing so in front of police, they must be legal. At the Newport event, the number of private buyers was said to outnumber those who wished to turn in guns. Many of the private purchasers brought and turned in guns whose value was very low.
$175 Assault or assault-like rifle
$125 Handgun
$ 75 Long guns, such as rifles or shotguns
$ 25 High capacity magazine
$ 5 Pellet or BB guns (Arctic Circle Gift Car
All weapons collected are removed from circulation and melted down. The Newport Police Department will donate unique or antique weapons to an appropriate historical museum.
I'll be attending. In an attempt to work with the enemy I will be turning in three firearms while simultaneously open carrying. Two of those firearms were acquired at the last buyback for the purposes of turning them in......they're really rough, unsafe, and only barely able to function. I paid $50 for both and they closed the turn in when I was just 4 or 5 people from the front of the line.
The third weapon is an evil one. It is a very dangerous 12 gauge ghost gun with no serial number. It was manufactured in the back yard, has no safety devices, and is decked out to be highly attractive to young children, especially little girls. Note the "Hello Kitty" motif on the entire stock!!!!
They got a gift card in exchange. In the pot: 18 shotguns, 18 rifles, 35 semi-automatic pistols and 67 revolvers. Magazines and ammunition were also accepted. Each gun will get a background check and any that turn out to be stolen will be sent to the agency that reported it.
They ran out of gift cards 22 minutes into the four hour event.....patriots were lined up turning in JUNK and cheap 30 round mags. They were giving $25 cards for 30 round mags that can be bought for less than $10 these days.
After running out of cards, they somehow got permission to give out IOU's. That sure helped the CASH PAYING buyers though as we'd explain that there were no gift cards left but they could get an IOU and get mailed a card (maybe) in a couple weeks.....but WE PAID CASH NOW.
I picked up 5 weapons including a Model 11 Remington SemiAuto 12 gauge from 1926, a Mossberg bolt action 20 gauge from 1947-1950 (with no factory SerNo as they weren't required back then an Mossberg didn't do it), AND a pre 1900 12 gauge breech action with Damascus barrel......AND....... a couple of 22 pistols. One pistol is like NIB with serial numbers of box, barrel, cylinder, and frame all matching plus the original manual.
It is one of the reasons that disarmists want to make private sales illegal.
Every gun show should advertise itself as a gun buyback, which is what they are.
Oh the hugh irony. The only way to get a better mark up would be to sell to the Defense Department. LOL
“Government program central control and price setting” vs. free market reality. The stupid central,planners come out behind every time. LOL.
I’d have taken in some of my old AR mags that don’t have self leveling followers and use the money to buy twice as many nice new Magpuls.
But where I live the first numskull to propose a “buyback” would be laughed out of town at the very least.
Heck, a county sheriff’s detective taught our intermediate tactical defense class.....at the department’s range.
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