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Opportunity at Gun “Buyback” in Toledo, Ohio
AmmoLand ^ | August 25, 2022 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/05/2022 10:06:53 AM PDT by marktwain

On Saturday, September 10, 2022, the city of Toledo, Ohio, will be holding a gun “buyback” event. The Orwellian term “buyback” is used even though the guns being turned in were never owned by the government. The event is scheduled for four hours and will give out BP gasoline cards in various denominations in exchange for guns. From wtol.com:

The city of Toledo is holding a gun buyback event on Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Frederick Douglass Center in central Toledo.

The event, which will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will accept any gun in exchange for gas gift cards, ‘no questions asked.’ No ID is required to surrender a weapon.

On the Toledo government website, there are a few specifics about the event: From toledo.oh.gov:

Location: Frederick Douglass Center, 1001 Indiana Ave.

Date: Saturday, September 10

Time: 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Receive a gas gift card for every firearm turned in, no questions asked. Gift card quantities are limited and subject to availability. Functioning and nonfunctioning firearms will be accepted at the event.

All firearms must be unloaded.

$100 Handguns

$200 Shotguns and rifles

$250 Automatic

$0    Ammunition

At 13abc.com, the announcement mentioned “residency.” There is no indication how the residency would be determined, as this is a “no questions asked” turn-in event. From 13abc.com:


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


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Ohio
KEYWORDS: banglist; buyback; guns; ohio
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These gun "buybacks" can be good opportunities to obtain some case, do some pro-Second Amendment activism, or, sometimes, obtain some good guns relatively inexpensively.
1 posted on 09/05/2022 10:06:53 AM PDT by marktwain
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Cash for guns pop up tent in the 700 block of Indiana Ave.? Just sayin’...................


2 posted on 09/05/2022 10:10:24 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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obtain some case cash.
3 posted on 09/05/2022 10:12:11 AM PDT by marktwain
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“...No ID is required to surrender a weapon...” So how is residency determined then? Most recent electric/water/sewer bill?


4 posted on 09/05/2022 10:12:13 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Does anyone else find the term “buy-back” as problematic as I do? It implies that guns were property of the state, sold to you, and theirs to first “buy-back” and logically at some point to then “take-back”?


5 posted on 09/05/2022 10:13:01 AM PDT by blackdog
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I like the quotes on buyback since the government never sold them in the first place.


6 posted on 09/05/2022 10:13:40 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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I’d gladly pay $250-$300 for an ‘automatic’. 🤔😂👍


7 posted on 09/05/2022 10:14:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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Yes. It is stated in the article, that "buyback" is an Owellian term.

You cannot "buyback" what you never owned before.

8 posted on 09/05/2022 10:14:15 AM PDT by marktwain
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Does that mean that they sold those guns to those people before and now they’re gonna’ buy them BACK????????? Huh?????


9 posted on 09/05/2022 10:14:52 AM PDT by laweeks
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I remember one a while back where a number of gun buyers set up tables across the street, and got some good bargains.


10 posted on 09/05/2022 10:19:16 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper)
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The price of firearms go up every time Brandon gets in front of a microphone. Obama sold guns by threatening to take them. Biden sells guns by threatening us.


11 posted on 09/05/2022 10:22:50 AM PDT by Spok (Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?)
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“No ID is required to surrender a weapon...” So surrendering your weapons to the state is established vernacular?


12 posted on 09/05/2022 10:24:47 AM PDT by blackdog
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My guess these buybacks are used to trace stolen or buy repairable, broken weapons..no criminal is gonna give up a functioning gun, especially if stolen...


13 posted on 09/05/2022 10:26:57 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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Could just be “surrender”. Sorta like surrendering to the powers that be and getting your never ending serieis of vax and boosters.


14 posted on 09/05/2022 10:27:57 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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i wonder if the 3d gun guy will show up

i hear he cashed in at another buyback


15 posted on 09/05/2022 10:28:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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These buybacks are great opportunity to get rid of broken guns.
When “no question asked”, they are also great way for criminals to dispose evidence!


16 posted on 09/05/2022 10:29:17 AM PDT by AZJeep
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Polystyrene handguns!


17 posted on 09/05/2022 10:46:01 AM PDT by packagingguy
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Apparently I can just cross the border and make some $$$$?


18 posted on 09/05/2022 11:14:31 AM PDT by madison10 (against )
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So I steal a gun ,use it to commit a crime. The city buys it from me an destroys it


19 posted on 09/05/2022 11:31:35 AM PDT by JVahey
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>>>>> $250 Automatic <<<<<<

lol.....bet they got alot of those .../s


20 posted on 09/05/2022 11:46:52 AM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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