Buybacks never get old

[bigalexe]

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/21745165/detail.html

Summary
-Detroit Police will hold a gun buyback
-$20 per firearm will be paid
-No limit to the number an individual can turn in
-They can only accept a TOTAL of 75 guns

Between the measley $20 being offered and the fact that they can only accept 75 total this story is more comedic than anything else.

 

[nitrosport]

The thugs and criminals are never going to voluntarily turn their guns in so what's the point of these buybacks? On top of that, they can probably get 10 times that much on the streets.

 

[hammerklavier]

It's a good way to get rid of junk guns, broken down Jennings, Glocks that went Kaboom! etc.

 

[svaz]

Most of these buy backs are no-ques. asked. What better way to get rid of that incriminating evidence that has been weighing you down?

 

[BADSBSNF81]

I've always wondered how they "buy back" something that they didn't sell in the first place. Oh wait, I'm confusing the issue with common sense

 

[Speedo66]

$20 is insulting. When I turned in 3 fairly worthless guns (to buy 2 new ones), my local buyback was giving $200 each.

I thank them for my new Marlin 70SS and my son's Mossberg 500 Mariner.

Sad to see a city that can only afford $20 each.

 

[essayons21]

I wish they did more of these in my area so I could camp out in the parking lot and pick up some heirloom guns for cheap

 

[Nicodemus38]

the local news station has started showing snippets of the press conference showing the reclaimed guns.

on the gun table were the following right next to vice grips:

-colt detective/chief special snubby $5-800 price tage in my area these days
-nickel plated top break revolver LONG barrel
-colt saa, 6" barrel, black powder frame
-schofield revolver, nice blueing nicer then ive seen on some reproductions
-what looked like a schofield with a SAA recoil shield on it.

 

[Ohio Gun Guy]

(Say in your best 50's announcer voice)

Oh-yes......Detroit..... That model City of Liberal Ideas.

 

[Extremely Pro Gun]

What? I thought most cops encourage gun ownership!! This is bad!! It wont help a thing.

 

[MD_Willington]

$20 - see if you can trade in a broken soldering gun for a $20 towards a box of ball ammo...

 

[c919]

Yeah, I have an old broken heat gun... I wonder if they'd give me a Jackson for it.

 

[BK]

Twenty bucks?
What the heck am I supposed to do with twenty bucks?

I guess even the buyback circuit is feeling the hard economic times.
They seem to only have $1,500 to play with.
I hope it's as dismal a failure as it's starting out to be.

 

[zignal_zero]

years ago, a buddy of mine bought 20 guns from a pawn shop that was closing. the deal was: he could have them for $20 each IF he bought everything the pawn shop owner had left. he did. they were all junk (except one or two). i asked him what the heck he wanted with 20 Lorcin's, Jenning's, etc. he said "BUY BACKS!!!!!" he ended up getting 50 each for them and copped some decent hardware, as a result.

sometimes, these silly Anti's come in handy

 

[bdickens]

I still want it explained to me how a city can "buy back" something they never owned in the first place.

 

[TexasBill]

It wasn't the city, it was a church. The Detroit Police Dept. was only involved to destroy the guns that were turned in.

Heck, my son's got airsoft guns worth more than $20.00.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

Gun "buy backs" only fail when NO one shows up to sell ANYTHING. As long as people are willing to give them validity by selling them parts guns or "junk" guns, no matter for however little, then the buy back is a "success". The only way to defeat this anti-gun silliness is to let it die of attrition. If you need money from selling unusable guns,at least sell them to a gunshop for parts(Numrich buys parts guns all the time). Don't help the antis count coup. Don't feed the beast!

 

[W.E.G.]

I sold a ruined Jennings .22 to the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department for $100 cash-money out the door some dozen years ago.

Doubled my money on that deal.

 

[sig228]

The thugs and criminals are never going to voluntarily turn their guns in so what's the point of these buybacks?

The point?

Simple.

Free publicity for the anti gunners. Of course the media and newspapers love ANYTHING anti gun, so they are all over these stories. Unfortunately, as pointed out, its usually grandma turning in her 50 year old revolver thats been sitting in her dresser drawer, not the street thug turning in a Mac 10.

 

[earlthegoat2]

Detroit is where the American Dream went to die.

In my younger days I went there a lot since I lived close by. I did not carry a gun in those days and it seemed like everyone there wanted to "help" you out or needed a "ride" somewhere.

As far as gun buybacks are concerned I like them to get rid of broken guns but will never turn in anything that works or anything I cannot make a profit on through the buyback and no other way.

 

[jimmyraythomason]

I've got a couple of old revolvers dissassembled in my shop not worth $40 in combined parts but will rust to nothing before I let anti gunners get any publicity from them.

 

[elrod]

Heck, I would have given $50, at least!

 

[FIVETWOSEVEN]

go hangout in the parking lot and offer them $30 per gun. they'll like that more than $20

 

[earlthegoat2]

go hangout in the parking lot and offer them $30 per gun. they'll like that more than $20

Too bad it is in MI and you will need a purchase permit for each of them or a CPL with a sales record slip.

 

[Ryder]

They'd get more guns if they offered a trade for $20 worth of drugs and cut out the middle man. Still a sad thing that this is motivating people to commit burglaries though.