That’s the way you do it...
Screw them at their own game.
Love love love it.
You’re right.
About 20 years ago there was a buy back program in Denver which the local news stations covered. A man came out of the auditorium and a reporter asked him what he had turned in and what was he going to do with the money. He said “I turned in four crappy old guns and now I’m going to take the money and buy a decent pistol”. It was live so they couldn’t cut it out. Lol.
Two weeks ago, I sold two firearms to the =City of Baltimore in a similar deal.
One was a cheap .380 I bought new for $110. It was irreparably broken. The other was a 16 gauge Champion (JC Penney) brand shotgun I got at a garage sale for $35.
The City paid me $300 for them. Most of the people selling their guns were older folks with either late husband guns or rusty junk. Several, like me planned to use the windfall to buy more guns.
In my case, I invested in lead futures.
Brilliant. Gaming the system.