Police buy back 300 firearms

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Good to hear I didn't miss out on the opportunity to buy anything good. And I don't have any old junkers to sell.

The picture with the story shows a cop (from the narc unit) surrounded by a bunch of old shotguns and hunting rifles. Not exactly top choices of criminals, unless those criminals are poachers.
 
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Go to WIS-TV.com and leave your feedback about the buyback! I did, but it sometimes takes an hour or so for your post to be updated. BTW, mine was "JP from Irmo"

Let them know how stupid it is!

Jack
 
My father told me that a little old lady turned in a pistol and she told the police officer that she thought it was unloaded. Turned out it had a loaded magazine and one in the chamber! :eek:
 
"My father told me that a little old lady turned in a pistol and she told the police officer that she thought it was unloaded. Turned out it had a loaded magazine and one in the chamber! "


It was probably a WWII Colt .45! Or even worse, a Singer :what: I saw all kinds of elderly people there turning in guns. Oh the horror of it all!!
BTW, left my comment at the WIS question of the day. I'll do a cut and paste when it comes up. Hehehe.....

My WIS post:
SS, Columbia:
First we had Mayor Bob Air. Then, Mayor Bob empty convention center. Now we have the non profit Mayor Bob Gun Show! Way to go tax payers! Keep putting this tax and spend liberal into office and watch Columbia go broke! BTW, I got $50 for that rusty .22 that all the news articles are speaking of. It did not come off the streets of Columbia, it came out of a gun safe where it has been for the past 20 years waiting on an opportunity like this.
 
The more I think about this the more it bugs me.


We all acknowledge that the real goal of the antis is not disarming criminals, but disarming the law abiding so that we can't revolt if they decide to put us under their boot.


So when some of you guys sell your old junker guns and laugh that it didn't come "off the streets" but instead from your gun safe, then you have just played into their hands because frankly they don't want the guns that are on the street, they want the ones in the safes of the law abiding.

Sure its funny to get $50 for a POS old rust bucket, but I'm thinking it would be better to sell or give your old rusted and beat up guns to someone who can use them ... I'm sure that on most of the junk guns there's at least one good part ... and that one good part might be all that is required to make another gun operational.


I don't mean to sound like I'm flaming those of you who sell junkers at these things. Especially since many of you use the money for other guns, but the larger the turnout at these things, the more the antis are empowered (and the more your tax dollars are wasted supporting our enemies).
 
Clearly, it is more important to create the perception that something is being done to reduce "gun violence" than it is to actually do so.

The street cops running the program know full well that they are not making the streets safer.

In fact, I wonder if a legal case mightn't be made that the city was swindling a bunch of oldsters who don't realize they are being paid way below market prices for collector's items.
 
Doggone it. Now those guns are off the street. I've been looking everyday for the flood of assault weapons on my street, and now this! I just can't win I tell ya.
 
Zundfolge,
Don't worry about the parts on that .22 of mine. It was made of POT METAL! you don't want to fix a gun like that. A gunsmith is not allowed by law to repair a gun like that in SC, nor is an FFL allowed to sell a gun like that anymore. When SC passed the "Saturday Night Special" law, the gun has to pass a melt test of 650 or 800 degrees. Not sure of the temp. I accepted it from a friend 20 years back because he figure he would just go to jail with it, and I refused to shoot it. I almost took a sledge hammer to it because it was so untrustworthy due to it's make up. I'd never even dream of selling it or giving it to anyone that wanted to shoot it. I even thought about just filing down the hammer and keeping it as a decoy, but I figured it would have ruined it's "Police gun buy back value" :evil:
The only thing that really gripes me is the elderly that were being taken advantage of. I'd really cringe to see something valuable go to the crusher.
 
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