What would your "buyback" gun or guns be?

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As long as we're responding to thi9s old thread, I found some kind of .22 rifle at a garage sale recently for $15. It's so rusted up inside and out that I can't even read any info on it, but it's complete except for a rear sight. I bought it with every intention of taking it to a buy-back, accept their $100 gift card, then sloooowly walk back through the line to see what everyone else brought, and offer to trade the gift card plus some cash for anything that looks like I'd like to have it. Wish me luck-- their might be a FAL or something else as nice in line.
 
2 thoughts come to mind...

1, in a "buy back", what happens if a gun you reported as stolen is turned in? Do you get it back? Do you get compensated? Hmmm...

2, as for the zero tolerance thing in school - if a piece of toast looks enough like a gun to get a kid expelled the same as actually carrying a gun, shouldn't this toast be worth $100 in the BBack scenario presented here?

Yeah, sorry to derail this thread, but it's obviously headed to the crash and burn pile already due to a few taking this way too seriously. Regardless, these are honest questions above.
 
Has anyone considered that the police and FBI use the buy backs to find BG's? I'm talking running any prints on weapons turned in the they can tie to a crime. Has anyone thought of wiping down the weapons before they turn them in? Not because you are guilty of anything, but to keep your prints out of the system.

And I have to agree with a few others, that these buy back programs give the anguish more "fuel for the fire", "look what we took off the streets. Look at all these deadly assault weapons that were out there"
 
Moderators, feel free to kill this zombie. It is veering far off track.
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I would never participate in a gun "buyback". However, I did take a sledge hammer to a certain Rossi revolver before throwing it in a lake many years ago.

Even though my income was at a very modest level at the time, and the money spent (wasted) on that POS would have been better used elsewhere, I think I got my money's worth pounding that thing into slag and recycling it au naturel... :)
 
I did a "sell-out"

I had a late production Grendel P10 (after the extractor change, when production was closing down) that had a frame fail (weld holding right rail to trunion broke loose and cracked grip frame). I packed the non-frame parts and mailed them to Numrich Arms Gun Parts and accepted their offer of $20 plus re-embursement of my postage.
 
Before this thread dies, is there anything stopping "the common man" from trying to "buy back" a rifle or pistol from the people that bring something in.
 
ozarkgunner said:
Before this thread dies, is there anything stopping "the common man" from trying to "buy back" a rifle or pistol from the people that bring something in.
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I think that depends on how the laws and rules are set up in the area where the buy backs happen.

I've seen and read of people camping out at the outskirts of such buy backs and making offers to people as they come in.

I've also seen and read of buy backs where that was posted as not allowed.

I guess you just have to check the laws where you're at to be sure.
 
I'd make a zip gun to sell to them.

At one buyback, they included BB guns and paid $100 per gun. Fellow cleaned out Wallyworld of BB guns and profitted big time. He didn't even take them out of the box and sold them new in the box.
 
Has anyone considered that the police and FBI use the buy backs to find BG's? I'm talking running any prints on weapons turned in the they can tie to a crime. Has anyone thought of wiping down the weapons before they turn them in?
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Unlike the episode of The Shield (where they conned sellers at a "buyback" into filling out raffle tickets) there is usually nothing to tie a gun to the seller in most these events.

As a federal prosecutor turned crime novelist pointed out on her blog, in real life guns are a bad surface from which to lift good fingerprints; she had to bring in forensic experts to explain that to juries, since in most cases nobodies' fingerprints were found on the gun.

The NAS pointed out in "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review" 2004 that buybacks are questionable. In a given year, only 1 out of 10,000 handguns would be used in a homicide, and most gun "buyback" guns and sellers don't match the standard profile of crime gun or gun criminal. Most "buyback" guns are long guns inherited by people with no interest in them and unaware of legal ways of disposing of them (consignment sale to a gunshop for example). Using 2010 gun estimates and crime figures, 1 of 18,000 handguns was involved in homicide, 1 of 288,000 long guns. I hope the FBI is smart enough to realize that running prints on random collections of guns is not going to solve many crimes.
 
i have 2 junk pistols, that somebody gave me and i mean junk, i have no intention of ever wasting 1 round through them, one has no handles and its taped up, they will go when the next one comes to my area.... at the last years of the 90's they had one and i gave them 2 yard sale $ 10 peices of absoulte junk.. and within 2 hours , the $ 200, i got helped me buy a nice 22 target pistol. the 2 junk guns i have now are waiting for that day again. rest of my guns will never, never go any way like that. i thank Bill C. all the time for my nice 22 pistol.
 
I've gotten rid of most of my buy back quality guns. I do have a Hi Point .380 that gave me a few problems my first time out, but the second time went pretty smooth. Only one ftf in 100 rounds. Very pleasant to shoot, actually. I kind of like it! :)
 
The people selling inherited guns at the "buybacks", I wonder how many of their progenitors are rolling over in their graves. It is a sad thought after all the sacrifices made.
 
Carl N. Brown said:
Unlike the episode of The Shield (where they conned sellers at a "buyback" into filling out raffle tickets) there is usually nothing to tie a gun to the seller in most these events.

As a federal prosecutor turned crime novelist pointed out on her blog, in real life guns are a bad surface from which to lift good fingerprints; she had to bring in forensic experts to explain that to juries, since in most cases nobodies' fingerprints were found on the gun.

The NAS pointed out in "Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review" 2004 that buybacks are questionable. In a given year, only 1 out of 10,000 handguns would be used in a homicide, and most gun "buyback" guns and sellers don't match the standard profile of crime gun or gun criminal. Most "buyback" guns are long guns inherited by people with no interest in them and unaware of legal ways of disposing of them (consignment sale to a gunshop for example). Using 2010 gun estimates and crime figures, 1 of 18,000 handguns was involved in homicide, 1 of 288,000 long guns. I hope the FBI is smart enough to realize that running prints on random collections of guns is not going to solve many crimes.
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Unless these things are going straight into evidence bags and a chain of custody started right off the bat, nothing they get would be worth a darn in a court of law anyway.
 
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