Has anyone ever done a gun "buy back?"

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I heard on the radio down the road from where I work there's going to be a gun buy back later this month and they're giving $200 for each handgun. I've got a handgun (not gonna mention brand name) that I would never be able to get $200 for if I sold it and am strongly considering doing the buy back.

So, what's the process of a buy back like? Good experience, bad experience? How long did it take?

They say it's no questions asked, which is good and all, but do they give me a document or paper saying that I surrendered that gun and the buyback program has taken possession of it? My concern is I don't want to give up possession of a firearm without documented proof in the event it got "misplaced" and wound up at a crime scene.
 
I've not done one, but I did want to make my feelings known: the whole concept of a "gun buy back" was created by anti-gunners and the anti-gun rights faction.

Don't support the other side. Take the loss. Are you a man of principle, or do you just want to get some money out of a deal?
 
Not sure I agree with your position of maintaining integrity in this case, although I see the merit in your argument.

I kind of feel like sell it and take the $200 and immediately put it into another gun or more ammo. Or heck, donate it to GOA, SAF or the gun rights org of your choice. What better way to counter the anti gun forces arrayed against us than to take their money and use it for a pro 2A cause? It's like capturing an enemy weapon and using it against him.

As far as the propaganda goes, they're going to proclaim the buy back a rousing success even if they only buy back one gun. Your boycott of it will have no effect.
 
D.B. Cooper said:
I kind of feel like sell it and take the $200 and immediately put it into another gun or more ammo. Or heck, donate it to GOA, SAF or the gun rights org of your choice. What better way to counter the anti gun forces arrayed against us than to take their money and use it for a pro 2A cause? It's like capturing an enemy weapon and using it against him.
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Nope. Not hardly. No one will know but you. The other side will still have statistics which you've helped provide. You, on the other hand, just got paid. Remember, integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one notices.
 
Gun "buybacks" are so wrong-headed (from the point of view of the larger aims of the antigunners themselves) that I see nothing wrong with taking advantage of their stupidity. All they're doing is clearing the neighborhoods of junk, and funding better guns for the gun owners. Nobody sells them a gun for less than what it's worth.
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Don't support the other side. Take the loss. Are you a man of principle, or do you just want to get some money out of a deal?
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You're not "supporting" the other side. Quite the contrary. You're actually detracting from their resources, which otherwise might be spent for more insidious purposes.
 
Trashyshoots said:
Did it once with 5 slamfire homedepot shotguns I built for about 50$ total. They took them and gave me the cash, but told me never ever do this again. I'm probably on a list now... :rofl:
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I would have done it the very next time they had a buy back.

I seem to remember reading a post by a member who was an FFL and who had several Lorcins or Jimenez in stock that he was listing at $50 less then what the gun buyback was paying.

He claimed that he dumped them all at the gun buyback for a substantial profit.

Colorado's Universal Background Check law as apparently rendered gun buybacks illegal.

I seem to remember one several years ago and as soon as it was announced RMGO threw a fit because it was illegal to transfer ownership of a gun without a background check.

I'm not aware that there's been another gun buyback in Colorado since
 
Oh, I fully agree that these gun buybacks do jack in what the people organizing them think it does in getting "one more gun off the street." Fact is if it's not that gun that's bought back, it'll be another one. In a nation where there's probably 500 million guns, you're not making a dent.

What I like about them is that I can take crap that nobody would even pay $50 for and get more money out of it. This is the first buy back I've heard of in a while and it was some dead rich guy who donated a few grand for it, so it's not from the taxpayers because the state is broke and can't afford this sort of thing and while living in a Blue state has its downsides, this is one of the very few upsides.

In fact, now that I see buybacks where handguns are fetching $200, I'm actually looking at buying more cheap handguns so I can get the experience of shooting them, but after they break I can sell them and get practically all my money back, if not turn a profit!

I've been really enamored with H&R revolvers and normally pass over ones that look in poor condition, but if there will be more buybacks in the future, dude, I'm not gonna hesitate to buy some rusty hunk of junk or pitted black powder model because at some point in time I'll bring it to the suckers born yesterday and get money for them.
 
I've done it once and would do it again if another were offered. I gave up a cheap non-working gun for $100 many years ago. I've got a couple more that I'd let them have if they ever have another locally. But I think the anti-gunners are getting smarter. Most of the guns they get are junk worth far less than what they are paying and they are figuring out most people are just unloading junk to fund better gun purchases.

BTW, you are not helping the other side. It is a win/win situation. You get more money than your gun is worth, and they get to feel better while having resources drained. It is illegal in most places to use tax money to fund these things. Virtually all of the money is donated. The cops you see are off duty cops hired by the group sponsoring the event.

Another piece of advice. If FTF sales are legal where you live take a few hundred in cash. If you do happen to see someone show up with a decent gun offer them $250-$300 for it. While rare, some people actually show up with valuable guns. You might get a deal.
 
Old Dog said:
I've not done one, but I did want to make my feelings known: the whole concept of a "gun buy back" was created by anti-gunners and the anti-gun rights faction.

Don't support the other side. Take the loss. Are you a man of principle, or do you just want to get some money out of a deal?
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Isn’t getting money out of a deal a principle of capitalism and thus by doing this you are in fact, a man of principle?
 
Buybacks are like cash for clunkers some years ago, but unfortunately they do get guns from people who have no concept of the value of a nice model 19 S&W, grandpa's 03A3, or uncle Bob's Colt pocket pistol. Sad to think these may be destroyed due to ignorance when they could be defending a household or be part of an historical collection or exhibit.

Serbu has plans for a gun designed to sell to buy-back programs. https://serbu.com/gb-22-plans/ I don't believe I have any guns worth less than $200, but I might be tempted to work the waiting line to see if I could trade up!
 
I have ran gun buybacks- in afghanistan. We never got anything good, and rarely got anything functional. Rusted-shut Enfields and Martini-Henry rifles,and other obsolete trash that was either broken, unsafe to fire, or ammo was no longer around for. Oddly enough, no one ever wanted to sell their AK's, PKM's, RPG's, and so on. We got all of those by taking them after a fight.
 
The (false) assumption of the antigunners sponsoring these "buybacks" is that one gun is the same as any other, as far as utility and worth are concerned. That's rooted in their profound ignorance about guns.

In contrast to this, savvy gun owners are applying the principle of "arbitrage" -- profiting by buying in one market and selling in another. The antigunners are unwittingly creating the second market by offering a fixed price for guns, regardless of their identity or condition. Anyone who knows the first market (the existing market for guns) can profit from this.

The whole calculus would be different if the antigunners offered fair market value, instead of a fixed price for the guns. But that would require them to have someone on board who was actually knowledgeable about guns. But that's a contradiction -- if the antigunners knew that much about guns, they wouldn't be antigunners.
 
I had a Glock 36 - it worked fine, but I didn't like it, got rid of it.
Later I decide to try Glock 36 again, buy another one (a version of "Buy-Back"), shocker still didn't like it and got rid of it too.
Slow learner, but I learn.
 
I inherited Three pistols or frames of pistols, that where not salvageable or sellable for parts, and sold them at a buy back program for two hundred a piece turned around and spent all of the gift cards on ammunition at the Walmart. This was almost ten years ago a church sponsored it and the local police dept was on hand to insure all "firearms" were sent for destruction. I would do it again if I were in possession of commercially unviable junk. I think of it as recycling valuable metal bwahahah..... One of the pistols was a semi auto so I took the magazines to a gun show a few months later and sold them for more ammo money. win win all around.
 
I always said I had a CBC single-shot shotgun I'd take to one of those buy-backs if they ever appeared in my neighborhood. Back then they were giving $200 for long guns. Hell, that's a 700% profit.:rofl:
 
I often sell guns to friends on the condition that I have right of first refusal, if they ever decide they want to get rid of it and yes I have bought some of them back.

It’s generally something I came across that was a fantastic deal and I passed it along to a friend.

More of a way of saying, if I just wanted to make money off of it, I could sell it to anyone but you are my friend and I’ll hook you up with great deals as long as you are looking to enjoy them vs the money you could make from my work. ;)

Still waiting for one buddy to get tired of that Kimber pro carry I passed along at $400, I enjoyed that one. Not as much as he does but it was a good one.

Kind of funny but I also bought a gun and later sold it back to the original owner. It might have even been from the classifieds here. It was a CETME rifle that I bought, learned about and corrected the problems it had and just didn’t shoot it enough to justify the room it took up. Some years later I posted it in the classifieds and a fellow contacted me with very specific questions and I forwarded photos and such, when we met up, we both recognized each other from the last transaction. He said he had regretted getting rid of it when he did but happy he had to because now it was “right”.
 
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Never heard of a "buyback" for violent video games, pornography, controlled substances, counterfeit money.
We need some sort of casting kit to make a real cheap gun out of scrap metal, say a Charles Schumer special, costing say $25 tops, turn them in.
 
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