Can I turn a gun buyback into cash?

[Bitmap]

Or will I get in trouble trying this?

If there is ever a buyback near me can I go to my scrap pile and get some steel tube (Maybe copper pipe? Maybe even PVC pipe? Spray paint can do amazing things) and some old 2x4 lumber and some old electric fence wire or cable ties and cob together some fake zip guns and turn them in for money?

I saw in the news that one buyback would give you $25 for non-working or $50 for working guns. The ones I would build would fall into the non-working category but at $25 each I've got enough junk lying around to pay my mortgage for a couple of months.

I understand you can make your own firearms legally for your own use but you can't go around selling them. Would I get in trouble for selling them if I turn in non-working (ok, fake) guns at a gun buyback?

I can see myself now pulling up with a 16 foot trailer full of this junk and get $3k+ from it, then standing next to the line and offering $100 for any nice looking guns that people want to turn in.

Another question for anyone who has witnessed one of these sheeple events - do they have cops posted in the area to chase off anyone trying to buy guns from the people who intend to turn them in?

 

[MrPeter]

Sounds like a fun idea to me.

If nothing else you'll communicate the point to these folks that what they are doing is a joke.

 

[Bitmap]

If nothing else you'll communicate the point to these folks that what they are doing is a joke.

I don't want to communicate. I want to make some easy money while ridding myself of some old junk I'll probably never use for anything else.

 

[Jorg Nysgerrig]

Make sure to tell the nice officer that you made all these non-working zip guns yourself for the buyback. I'm certain they won't look twice when you try to pass off a few dozen of them.

 

[rdsharp]

You might want to look up fraud. One or two you might get away with. Ten dozen and the nice officers are going to want to talk to you in a room with a mirror on the wall.

BTW, do you good in orange?

 

[Justin]

There was a recent thread where a member turned in a bunch of non-working junk guns for gift cards that were then used to help fund a youth shooting program. It might be worth searching for that one.

But manufacturing your own zip-guns, non-working or not, probably isn't the brightest idea.