Free money how can one pass that up.
Good - I hope that ticks off the grabbers a bit...
You can’t “punish” or “banish” a particular serial number of firearm for things its prior owner did with it. Sheesh! Some what passes for thinking about firearms is more metaphysical, than real.
And the problem is...?
Several years ago North Providence RI was doing the same thing, acting as an FFL. They were sued and lost. LE departments are not exempt from the same laws as you would be if you started a buy back program.
If I had turned in a gun and then found out it was valuable and the police were making money on it, I’d be pretty PO’d. But then I’d have to be a bed-wetting liberal weenie to have turned in my gun, so I’d most likely be PO’d about everything anyway. So there’d no net gain in my PO level.
Why don’t they just put a classified ad in the local newspaper?
“Yard Sale, Saturday, June 8th at the St. Charles Police Department. Lots of great firearms, priced to sell. Early birds welcome! 10% discount to anyone who brings donuts.”
I think it’s hilarious. Good for them. Sell ‘em.
Take advantage of people stupid enough to give up their 2A rights whenever you can.
Education is almost always either painful or expensive, or both.
I’d like to know why my local police department is involved in this “buyback” nonsense anyway. St. Charles doesn’t have a murder rate. We’re 35 miles away from the cesspool of Chicago. The police reports every week usually involve domestic abuse and DUIs. Oh and BTW there is a gun show in town this weekend so there is going to be some competition for those guys.
“illegal guns” is a term in violation of the Second Amendement and also an oxymoron.
***”But when that happens, there will be someone saying that’s taxpayer dollars [at stake] and you’re throwing it away.”****
There was a time when most items, like guns, bought with TAXPAYER FUNDS was returned to the public through the items being declared surplus and sold at auction.
Even the guns used by Lewis and Clark were sold at auction when no longer needed.
Now the taxpayer funded items are destroyed rather than being sold back to the taxpayers who funded them in the first place.
A true waste of taxpayer money.
So-called buyback stunts used to have only one true purpose: create publicity that guns are BAD. Now they apparently have a second purpose. Ripoff unsuspecting widows and others who “sell” their collectables at a fraction of their true value, and then profit by the resell of those items at their true market value. Unfortunately for the buy-backers, the second purpose does detract substantially from the first purpose.
I kind of figured the good ones were going home with the LEO’s.
It seems to me the police department is functioning more like a pawn shop.