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Private Purchasers Clean Up at Fort Worth Gun Buyback
AmmoLand ^ | July 1, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

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.

From cbsnews.com:

“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.

(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...


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To: max americana

Hadn’t had my coffee yet 😏


21 posted on 07/05/2022 6:41:15 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: marktwain
Quite small does *not* equal zero. Also,imagine one of the guns involved *was* used in a murder and,never having tested it,the Dallas Police sold it to a criminal who used it to kill someone else. The City of Dallas could be sued big time for negligently having failed to take that weapon off the streets.
22 posted on 07/05/2022 6:41:30 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Maybe the police could be sued, but they are not private purchasers.


23 posted on 07/05/2022 6:43:19 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

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.


24 posted on 07/05/2022 6:44:22 AM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (Dementia Joe is Not My President)
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To: gunnut

“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.


25 posted on 07/05/2022 6:45:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Joe Biden has been protected by assault weapons his entire adult life. )
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To: Manly Warrior
29 gauge, huh? Bet that's hard to find ammo.

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."

26 posted on 07/05/2022 6:50:48 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: MayflowerMadam
I’m surprised it wasn’t at least 10 times that many.

Looking at the pics, I'd say they bought about 20 guns too many.

27 posted on 07/05/2022 6:52:33 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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To: NFHale

Sad part is that I bet some of those were grandpa’s gun.


28 posted on 07/05/2022 6:52:42 AM PDT by Pollard (If there's a question mark in the headline, the answer should always be No.)
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To: fella

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.


29 posted on 07/05/2022 6:57:01 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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To: marktwain
I was only commenting on this particular matter...firearms being bought,and sold,by a city's police department.
30 posted on 07/05/2022 7:00:13 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Covid Is All About Mail In Ballots)
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To: marktwain

Maybe the good side to that is the people turning those guns in probably shouldn’t be able to own one.


31 posted on 07/05/2022 7:01:39 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: Gay State Conservative
I was only commenting on this particular matter...firearms being bought,and sold,by a city's police department.

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.

32 posted on 07/05/2022 7:02:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: V_TWIN

That’s exactly what they wanted.


33 posted on 07/05/2022 7:11:15 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: Pollard

True enough.

But they’ll find a good home…


34 posted on 07/05/2022 7:11:41 AM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.She was, indeed, a hottie… Rest in peace, Joanne.)
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To: LouAvul
29 gauge, huh? Bet that's hard to find ammo.

28ga with a barrel bulge. LOL!

35 posted on 07/05/2022 7:26:18 AM PDT by paulcissa (Politicians want you unarmed so they can kill you.)
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To: marktwain

36 posted on 07/05/2022 7:38:44 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: LouAvul

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.


37 posted on 07/05/2022 7:45:49 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: marktwain; All

Another image from the "buyback", shows some more nice guns.

38 posted on 07/05/2022 7:53:50 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Taxman

Ping


39 posted on 07/05/2022 8:00:41 AM PDT by Taxman (Save America!)
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To: marktwain

BTTT!!!


40 posted on 07/05/2022 8:05:19 AM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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