City will pay up to $200 per gun during Saturday's buyback event at Winston-Salem Fairgrounds. No questions asked.

Journal Now ^ | 11/15/21 | Wes Young

[Libloather]

A gun buyback program approved by the Winston-Salem City Council last spring holds its first event on Saturday at the Winston-Salem Fairgrounds, with payments from $100 to $200 for guns turned in.

The “no questions asked” drive-thru event will take place from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the fairgrounds, city officials said, billing the event as 100% anonymous.

The city has held buybacks in the past, most recently in 2014, when city officials pronounced the event so successful that they ran out of money, had to issue vouchers, and later decided to set aside another $10,000 to hold a second event.

The effort is part of a broader crime-reduction plan approved by the city in 2021-22 budget negotiations.

Designating almost $1.4 million for special crime-reduction efforts, the plan includes money for a program designed to help ex-offenders, another to help young people with conflict resolution, more support for recreational programs at community centers and a pre-K boost designed to prevent crime in the long term.

The city has earmarked $50,000 for gun buyback efforts in the current fiscal year.

On Saturday, city officials will pay $200 for each gun considered an assault rifle, $150 for each handgun and $100 for each long gun.

Sellers have to put the guns in their car trunks before going to the fairgrounds. Police officers will be on hand to safely remove the guns from the trunks.

[OldGoatCPO]

Third party buyers often attend "buybacks." I am guessing having the Cops remove the weapon from the trunk keeps potential third party buyers from seeing the goods.

Most are junk weapons, more than few probably stolen. But, many people are being lazy. A working weapon at a gun show, or pawnshop can fetch more money in cash or trade. People do not know what they have.

[Magnum44]

[Vaduz]

Ever see a politician or one of his/her body guards at one of those events turn one in?.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***On Saturday, city officials will pay $200 for each gun considered an assault rifle, $150 for each handgun and $100 for each long gun. ***

You can get more than that at any pawn shop!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Watch the movie “American Guerrilla in the Philippines”(1950). It shows how to make a slam fire shotgun.
Then hit the hardware stores for the parts.

[taxcontrol]

Someone should show up with a trailer labeled: Ammunition disposal point. All calibers and shotgun shells accepted.

[Mean Daddy]

I worked with a lady who immigrated to the US from Russia. They finally got the OK and at the airport they confiscated her grandmother’s wedding ring and pictures of her husband in the military because of state secrets.

I asked her if she could have appealed and she said that it meant starting the immigration process all over and they could have confiscated everything again.

This is where we’re headed - the property is the gubmints and it’s by their good graces you have use of it.

[Big Red Badger]

Adios Mama!

[GOPJ]

Gun theft pays.

Everyone 'in the know' - knows this is city welfare for criminals...

[Captain Peter Blood]

So they will pay for the guns then they will be stolen later.

[GOPJ]

Cops at these ‘buy backs’ recognize most of the ‘sellers’...(yep, lots of thieves are arrested more than once, twice, twenty times+...)

Here’s how it works: Criminals steal guns when they break into homes (along with cash, jewelry etc) then allow ‘the gullible’ to buy the cheaper guns back (that they don’t want) then use the money to buy better weapons and tools (on the street).