AZ:Phoenix Anonymous Donor Funds 18 May Turn In with $100K! Street Gun Show!

[Dean Weingarten]

Some guns that went past private buyers and were turned in at the Phoenix events

Yes, you do see a stainless mini-14 with a folding stock, an M1 carbine, a utility double, and many more. Just short of a thousand were turned in.

Another mysterious source comes up with $100K to further fund gun turn in events in Phoenix this Saturday, May 18th.

The hours have changed to 0900 - 1300. Private buyers have made amazing deals at these events during the last two weekends, and some fantastic firearms have been turned in, in spite of dozens of private buyers offering cash instead of gift cards. Here are the three locations:

Southminster Presbyterian 1923 East Broadway Road

Betania Presbyterian 2811 North 39th Avenue

Sunnyslope Mennonite Church 9835 North 7th Street

The Mennonite Church is the most upscale, Betania Presbyterian the most modest, though last weekend it was the only location and therefore a hotspot. Southminster Presbyterian was in between.

Here are links to the Previous series of articles:

Link to Article on Arizona Fiscal Sanity Bill

Link to Phoenix Turn In Part 1

Link to Phoenix Turn In Part 2

Line to Phoenix Turn In Part 3

Link to What my Waitress Thought of the Turn In

Link to AZhoenix Early Turn In Luger and Holster

Link to Phoenix Gun Turn In .22 "Assault Rifle" Home Modification

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/azphoenix-gun-turn-in-buyback-rolling.html

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/05/azphoenix-anonymous-donor-funds-18-may.html



Here are some more of the guns turned in

©2013 by Dean Weingarten Permission to share granted as long as this notice is included.

 

[Carl N. Brown]

Odds are very good that most of these are guns inherited by people with no interest in guns and no idea how to properly dispose of unwanted guns (sell them to interested sporting, recreational or self-defense users, or to a licensed dealer who hands used guns on consignment).

Many of the people who inherit an old gun somehow feel their possession is illegal, don't know the local laws at all, and see the gun "buy back" no questions asked as a safe way to get rid of it.

We need to encourage folks who have inherited unwanted guns to at least consider consigning the guns to a licensed dealer who will resale the gun and charge a commission. That way they would get more than a $50 card if the gun has any real value.

Accord to the National Academy of Sciences review of gun policy, most "buy backs" net either unwanted inherited sporting guns, or inoperable unmaintained guns worth less than $100. Both classes of guns do not match typical ATF profiles of "guns traced in crime", making the whole "gun buy back" process a useless feel-good publicity stunt. The funds would be better spendt elsewhere.
National Academy of Sciences, National Research Council,
"Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review" (2004)
http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10881&page=95

 

[Salmoneye]

I believe the "Utility Double" is a 'Springfield' (Savage) Model 511...

The M1 Carbine makes me want to cry...

 

[Carl N. Brown]

If that was a civilian marksmanship program carbine, theoretically the Army could want it back. There was a court case decades ago where a gun club in PA lost track of a 1903 Springfield. A guy had checked it out then loaned it to his relative to go hunting.

Some buybacks run guns through the NCIC National Crime Information Center and make an effort to return guns reported stolen to their rightful owner; some just melt the guns or otherwise destroy them. Some actually dispose of the guns through licensed dealers.

 

[swalton1943]

Road trip! Go to Phoenix with my savings for the buy-backs. Can I bring them back to Texas? M-1 car and the sxs shotguns look nice, but prob. no more to be found; once only, missed chance, I guess.

 

[Dean Weingarten]

I would not come from Texas, but I am going from Yuma to cover the event. I expect that there will be deals that will make you cry, and lots of private buyers. I counted 83 in the last event.

The Rolling Gun Show link shows lots more pictures of what the Private buyers bought.

 

[Bobson]

Such a waste. Even more of a pity that I have absolutely zero disposable income currently.

 

[Dean Weingarten]

A Springfield (Savage) 511. It sounds as though you know your shotguns. I would have guessed a 311, but I was not sure.

Did you notice what appears to be a Marlin 39 with a cut off stock on the far end? I have been looking for an inexpensive model 39 for quite a while...

 

[rondog]

Stuff like this makes me sick.....the pussification of our country is coming along nicely, much to the Socialists' delight.

 

[Dr. Sandman]

They should advertise "gun buy back" at every gun show.

 

[Salmoneye]

It may indeed be a 311, but that blonde wood makes me think later production, so I guessed 511...

As to the Model 39, I missed it the first time due to the tears over that M1...

 

[Bruno2]

I saw a Ruger 10/22 or a 44 mag in the pile. Also maybe on the close end a Winchester model 12 with a poly choke? I would buy either one of those for $120.00.

 

[M-Cameron]

ide like to know who that donor was who would rather waste $100K for police to buy gun rather than donating that money to aids or cancer research...

even if i hated guns with a passion, i could still think of 100 better uses for that money that would actually do some good.

 

[BK]

Bloomberg

 

[Ignition Override]

That's not even a tiny drop in the bucket compared to just single instances of guns being destroyed by foreign governments: even obsolete bolt-action WW2 rifles. Supposedly a chunk of UN money, along with British/European taxpayers finance that.

M-Cameron: good guess.
Bloomberg easily could have spent the exact funds which he directs towards various anti-gun political candidates, and instead send it to either
St. Judes Childrens' Research Hospital or LeBonheur Childrens' hospital nearby in Memphis etc. Even if he has Already helped fund such research and care...