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Posted on 11/29/2021 4:32:29 AM PST by marktwain
Colorado politicians have planned a gun “buy back” for March of 2022. They probably will not be able to hold the event, as Colorado law makes it nearly impossible to hold a “buy back” legally.
Those who want a disarmed population coined the Orwellian term “buyback” to describe events where people turn guns into police, to be destroyed, for money. The police cannot “buy back” guns they never owned, to begin with.
In 2013, people started fighting back against this propaganda effort by privately purchasing guns at these events. At some events, people used the money to buy better guns. States started requiring guns purchased by local governments to be sold, and the money used for the public good.
Local entrepreneurs/activists started selling homemade guns at these events, earning a profit and making for good photo opportunities.
Organizations such as Guns Save Life organized turn-ins of junk guns in order to buy good guns for youth programs.
The number of “buybacks” fell precipitously. A few continued in states where draconian law prevented private parties from purchasing firearms at these events, such as New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California.
Academic studies have confirmed these events do not reduce crime or suicides and may have a small effect of increasing crime for a short period.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Our state is in the hands of mindless, vicious punks.
Seems to me that those gun “buyback” things would be a great way to get rid of a “hot” weapon.
People often set up across the street buying the guns, picking up some deals.
People have done well setting up on the street in front of these things, and offering more.
Going fishing at Lake Powell might be more efficient when it comes to certainty of the disposal.
There, fixed it for you! I know it's early.
The City of Baltimore had one of these junk gun selling opportunities a few years ago. I sold two guns, one fatally broken to them for a total of $175 more than I paid for them.
Bought lots of ammo
The only way it would be legal for a Colorado resident to go turn over a firearm to someone else at one of these "buy back" events would be if that person receiving the firearm was a licensed firearms dealer. There is no law enforcement exception that I can see. There is a "law" exception for estate transfers to trustees. There are also several exceptions for temporary transfers.
Without a firearms dealer there to accept the firearms, any sellers would be breaking the law if they don't first get a background check done. I don't think it is right for government officials and law enforcement to encourage people to break the law. Nor is it right for them to simply wink and say "we're not going to enforce that law, here, today." Of course if you're a POS leftist then you're just fine with the law meaning whatever you want (or don't want) it to mean on any particular day.
Fixed that for you.
>>People have done well setting up on the street in front of these things, and offering more.
According to the article, that is illegal in Colorado (they “closed the gun show loophole”). No exception to that was granted for anonymous “buybacks”.
Humm.
Nothing to stop me from going to Home Depot and buying $15 worth of parts and making a zip gun or slam fire shotgun and turning them in for a profit.
“...people turn guns into police...”
Abracadabra!
It is because Colorado requires all private sales (with exemptions for family transfers and temporary loans,) and every transfer must go through an FFL.
Three questions, not necessarily for MarkTwain, but for the group:
1) If the cities of Denver and Aurora did hold "buy-backs" illegally, who would prosecute? The state AG?
2) Not being a lawyer, and not caring enough to research it completely, I find it hard to believe that there isn't some provision elsewhere in Colorado law that exempts law enforcement acting in their official capacity from taking possession of firearms without having to first go through an FFL for a background check. The DOJ has ruled that the Brady Act does not apply to law enforcement. If true, then the transferor could give the firearm directly to a law enforcement officer legally because of the law enforcement exemption.
3) Even if there no such exemption for law enforcement, what would stop the cities from enlisting the assistance of an FFL at the buy-back to receive guns from sellers, satisfying the letter of the law?
I’m so old I remember the gay Democrat governor of Colorado loudly proclaiming his libertarian bonafides.
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I was thinking about doing the same with an old auto pistol that I got from my dad. It was my grandfathers.
The thing fell apart when I tried to take it apart to inspect it and clean it. Wanted to see if it was safe to shoot. Probably unsafe. The thing would probably blow up.
Anyway, it is in pieces in a baggie. Who knows, maybe it is an antique. :) Can I get antique pricing?
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