Posted on 07/05/2022 5:21:54 AM PDT by marktwain
A few days ago, this correspondent wrote about the upcoming gun turn in event scheduled for Fort Worth, Texas. Police were offering $100 gift cards to people who turned in working firearms. As predicted, the police quickly ran out of gift cards. The event, scheduled for four days, ended in three and a half hours.
The private buyers did not run out of cash. They got some pretty good deals. C.J. Grisham, who founded Open Carry Texas spoke to a reporter.
“So we wanted to come out here and get some good deals,” Open Carry Texas President and Founder, CJ Grisham said.
Right outside of the event there was a group of people who were able to offer cash and buy guns themselves.
“We offered them $100 in cash, instead of one hundred in gift cards,” Grisham said. “And if they were just going to take it in there we might increase it a little bit but I think the average price we paid was maybe $150 today.”
Grisham said majority of the people they approached accepted his offer. CBS 11 asked Fort Worth police about guns they hoped would be taken off the street, remaining in the community.
The police said the private buyers were within their rights to make offers and purchase guns themselves. The private buyers purchased about 30 guns, according to Grisham, at an average of about $150.
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Hadn’t had my coffee yet 😏
Maybe the police could be sued, but they are not private purchasers.
I keep hoping that there will be one of those government gun buying carnivals in my area.
I have an old handgun that was in a flood and that I did not find until it had been buried in mud for a couple of weeks. I didn’t have time to try and salvage it at the time so I stuck it a box and forgot about it for a couple of years. When I came across it again it was rusted pretty solid.
I would be happy to trade it for a $100 gift card.
“most people coming to such an event would question the legality of selling a gun to someone on the street for cash.”
The legality of now, or the legality when the Constitution was written?
But I expect you’re right in that they probably were crap guns in the first place.
Reminds me of "Mr. Mom" where Michael Keaton is trying to impress a rival and he says he's going to rewire the house. The rival said, "220?" Keaton said, "220. 221. Whatever it takes."
Looking at the pics, I'd say they bought about 20 guns too many.
Sad part is that I bet some of those were grandpa’s gun.
I own a starting pistol in good working order. I hang it on a peg in my garage. Wonder if I could get $100 for it.
Maybe the good side to that is the people turning those guns in probably shouldn’t be able to own one.
Not a problem.
But, at this event, the police were not selling any guns.
Private buyers were purchasing guns from people who were bringing guns to be turned in to the police.
That’s exactly what they wanted.
True enough.
But they’ll find a good home…
28ga with a barrel bulge. LOL!
Remington made them in 20 and 28, if I recall.
A friend hunted quail with me with one back in my Fort Hood days, I used a BSS 20 Ga English stocked.
I shot a 24 ga once, in Europe.
Another image from the "buyback", shows some more nice guns.
Ping
BTTT!!!
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