I’m wondering if a slightly more passive readerboard advertising “I’ll buy your guns!” approach wouldn’t work better than walking up to strangers when they’re already stressed about their firearms? I haven’t heard of anyone conducting one of these citizen-fleecing operations near me recently but if they do I may just try it.
These so called gun buy back programs are some of the most harmful things being done by anyone. The type people who turn them in are the type who would never use them to commit a crime. They are often getting short changed for valuable items.
Most of the stuff getting turned in will be junk but there will also be the occasional valuable antique, museum quality guns, and just fine guns period.
Some probably use them to get rid of crime guns.
And the part that bugs me the most is the “buy back” part. These cops think they own the world apparently since they make you think they were theirs to start with which they were not. How can you buy back something you never had?
Did the cops manufacture the guns? Did they sell them? Then why in hell do they call it buy back.
All they are doing is disarming the innocent. and wasting valuable property. the whole thing stinks to high heaven.
Ha! They won’t be wasted. The best of those guns will end up in the homes of those cops. That’s how it works.
Thanks for the good read. That is good “citizen journalism”. Think of how much they will rake in when they start having their book burnings. Bibles, constitutions, founding docs, etc.
People willing go sell working long-guns for $25 at Wally World deserve to be unarmed and helpless when the SHTF. It won’t be me.
I see these things and invariably wonder how many valuable, old Colts and other premium firearms are given away to be destroyed or (more probably) end up in some cop’s personal collection.
There are a lot of crazy people out there who spit on five or six hundred bucks because they’re just too darned lazy to sell on Gunbroker.