[marktwain]

One comment suggested setting up a "Free Appraisal" table. If a particularly valuable item was to be turned in, arrangements might be made for a later sale.

[farming pharmer]

Not to hijack the thread, but IMHO FOID cards are ridiculously unconstitutional. I would hope someone brings that to attention of the SCOTUS during Trump's term of office.

[NFHale]

“...appears to be an M1 carbine and sling. ...”

Believe it’s actually a Ruger Mini-14 or mini-30. The blocky front end is the giveaway.

[Campion]

What kind of "police department" bribes law-abiding citizens to disarm themselves?

Headline from 2019: "Crime rates in Romeoville spike; police baffled".

[NFHale]

Those top-break revolvers in the front look neat. Old Iver Johnsons, or SW No.3’s, maybe?

[MarkL]

Holy crap... In the first row of rifles, on the far left, is a VERY serious (probably) single shot target rifle, probably a Winchester 52 or Remington 40x. Check out the micrometer aperture rear site, and the cylindrical, replaceable insert front site!

Perfect for 50’ 3 position competition. The 9 ring on the targets is .23 in diameter, the 10 is a dot in the center. To score a 10, you needed to touch the dot. a 10X required a perfect center shot with no remnant of the 9 ring left! From 50 feet!

I used to shoot those in high school, on the JROTC rifle team.

Mark

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

I can’t imagine the article NOT pointing it out if my suspicion is correct, ‘course they’re going on a grainy pix just like we are, but isn’t the pistol at lower right, 2nd one up, a Walther P38?

Obviously it could be some sort of clone but that wouldn’t that be a $2K or so pistol?

[rellimpank]

—sounds like a good idea, depending on the jurisdiction. I suspect in C(r)ook County, Illinois if you walked up to the table, then got an appraisal which caused you to walk away from the “buyback” , cops would be all over you for ID, FOID, etc.,-—

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

They should sell them at public auction an watch the bidders go mad bidding them up to new prices.
Happened at a police auction in Oklahoma and at private auctions in Arkansas a few years ago.

After seeing such an auction, one pawn shop gun dealer said he wished he had brought ALL HIS guns to be sold at the auction.

[Cold Heart]

I think even that metal Sanka can may be a collectable.

[lavaroise]

Second from the right. Is that a Steyer?