$250?!?! I have a bunch of broken guns that I couldn’t sell for $25 total. I hope I get a buyback like this someday.
but even the critics say it was “the right idea” and “a step in the right direction.”
Typical liberal feel good crap.
Here are some revolver prices: http://www.smith-wesson.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=11101&storeId=10001&categoryId=50802&langId=-1&parent_category_rn=15703&top_category=15703
How can you buy “back” something that was never yours?
(In other words, the very term is a lie.)
It is not a noble idea, it’s just freaking stupid.
so, with no questions asked and no I.D. required, how many of these guns were A. stolen, B. used in crimes? The whole thing was a publicity stunt by that miscreant, Don Perata. And of course the liberal morons living in Oakland will figure he’s such a noble guy. How many guns did he sell “back”? The SOB has one of two CCW permits issued in Oakland.
I’m thinking of a Senator buy-back program. I never actually owned a Senator, but I’d turn one in for a big payday. Hey, it gets one off the streets.
Oakland, Berkeley and SF are within spitting distance of each other - there’s a lot of competition among those three for who’s got the most Morons! Fools! and Idiots!
They take turns in upping the bar.
Does it say what they do with the guns that they buy? I remember another gun buyback program where the police department ended up selling the guns they had bought back to recoup some of the money they had paid out. I am pro second amendment, but if they were not going to destroy the guns they bought, what would be the point?
Amazing ... the cops ripped off the sellers -
Do they get to post negative comments on EBay ?
I wonder how the people in line reacted when the cops said, “ no more money, but we are going to take your guns away anyway “.
In what way are ‘buybacks’ a ‘noble idea’? And since the idea is to be a publicity stunt to show how ‘reasonable’ gun owners don’t really need their guns, how does it ‘misfire’?
Step 1) buy $100 gun from:
http://www.jgsales.com/product_info.php/p/feg-pa-63-pistol%2C-9x18-caliber%2C-vg-to-excellent-/products_id/1258
Step 2) sell $100 to police for $250
Step 3) profit!
and just think, that the thugs are going to turn in AK’s, UZI’s and the like for $250.00 when the street value is 10X. I don’t think so.
I’ll be glad to buyback firearms, I’d like to add a few to my collection
I have been praying for such an offer, it would allow me to get more than some guns are worth and allow me to buy more firepower in a newer model.
How can it be a buyback if they are not the ones that sold the guns in the first case?
Also, do they have an FFL? They are violating the one gun a month law, the waiting period, background check, etc.