Gun Buy Back: Attended by Gun Owners Looking to Buy and Inform!

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Well it looks like the California gun owners could be at the leading edge of what I hope could be a trend across America soon.

Seems like a group of them went down to a local gun buy back and offered up some sage advice regarding getting more than $100.00 for a rifle and $50.00 for a handgun. One of them, a C&R and 03FFL, picked up a nice shotgun valued around $500.00 for only $200.00. Don't worry the seller was fully informed of the value of the shotgun in advance and in the end wanted to sell it for $200.00 cash instead of getting a $100.00 gift card.

Here is the pic of the new owner with his find: Click Here

Here is the news story on the gun buy back from YouTube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdJqa_CK3Cg
Same video from local TV: http://www.10news.com/video/22028335/index.html and already the same video is being shown over in the UK at http://video.aol.co.uk/video-detail/gun-owners-trade-in-weapons-for-gift-cards/537032258

This is good stuff. More gun owners should consider hanging around Gun Buy Backs and let people know they could possibly get more money for their guns and/or just buy the guns direct from the people wanting to turn in what could be some valuable guns.

Word has it that it some of the LEOs thought some of the turned in guns "belonged in a museum." Unfortunately all the guns turned in will be melted down.
 
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Unfortunately from what I've heard most places run off gun owners who try to buy guns/educate people at these events.
 
Unfortunately from what I've heard most places run off gun owners who try to buy guns/educate people at these events.
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They (the property tenants) tried that and even threaten the gun owners and I quote...

The members of that community center were quite angry at us!! they kept yelling at all the cars that stopped and talked to us. We were even threatened with C4 and tasers. those guys were kooks!!
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But this is a group of California gun owners who know the law very well and will not be intimidated by idle threats. They came armed with camcorders, digital cameras and digital recorders. Everything was recorded. :cool:
 
So, they wanted to get guns off the streets, but they had access to explosives that aren't available to civilians? Could you trade a gun for some C-4? Now that would be a deal, that stuff is fun to use!
 
Excelent idea, As was mentioned in another thread, buy the good ones and let the City buy the cheap, unrepairable, unreliable or rusted out junk.
 
Isn't it funny that the anti's are usually the first ones to threaten violence?

It's that very lack of self control that makes them anti's. They can't trust themselves not to snap and start killing, so they think everyone else is that messed up.
 
The gun buy-backs are usually a move made by the city to get illegally owned guns out of the hands of people who aren't supposed to have them. Around here at least, law enforcement will not punish anybody turning in any gun for any reason-it's an incentive to just get them off the street. They say that this is their "one chance" to turn over illegal weapons without punishment, because if they get caught otherwise, they face consequences. I think they normally give the person a pair of shoes or a voucher for shoes or something like that.

So, since these are guns that are being turned in with "no questions asked", by trying to buy these guns, you may be purchasing a gun that was used in a crime. They could've shot someone with it that morning, gone to drop it off for a fresh pair of kicks, and you offered to pay them double. Not very smart. Not smart at all.
 
I wish I could find one, but Virginia Beach doesn't seem to ever have them. Even if I couldn't poach anything, I could always hope that they were paying decent money for junk, then just go to the pawn shop, buy a $1000 in broken-down bolt-action shotguns and busted .22s, and flip 'em.

So, since these are guns that are being turned in with "no questions asked", by trying to buy these guns, you may be purchasing a gun that was used in a crime. They could've shot someone with it that morning, gone to drop it off for a fresh pair of kicks, and you offered to pay them double. Not very smart. Not smart at all.
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Most people aren't going to go looking for busted junk guns that are commonly used in crimes being handed in by the gangbanger-looking 17-year-old. They usually go looking for the yuppies, ignorant liberals, grandmothers with their late husbands' WWII bringbacks, wives that inherited their divorcee husband's collections in a divorce. etc. that don't know any better of what they have i.e. milsurps or guns that are in good shape with intact numbers, etc.

Yes, there is an unlikely chance that the grandmother busted a cap in a crip's rear-end with her husband's Garand on the way to the buyback. But, with proper judgement, you will be okay. the only real problem will be what the police may do/try to do to make you stop doing it.
 
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So, since these are guns that are being turned in with "no questions asked", by trying to buy these guns, you may be purchasing a gun that was used in a crime. They could've shot someone with it that morning, gone to drop it off for a fresh pair of kicks, and you offered to pay them double. Not very smart. Not smart at all.
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Most career criminals who have guns know they are much more valuable on the street.

At least around here gun buybacks seem to attract mostly elderly folks, mainly women, who found grandpas shotgun in a closet and are afraid of it.

And, what you talk about can happen to ANYONE buying used firearms, pawn shops especially.
 
That picture of that shotgun looks like an old Mossberg or New Haven Arms with the "perma-fix" choke system or whatever it s called. If it is that shotgun, then IMO the guy overpaid for it. It isn't worth $500. I paid $150 for mine recently and it is in excellent shape.
Now if it isn't one of the two shotguns that I mentioned, then he may have gotten a better deal.
 
And, what you talk about can happen to ANYONE buying used firearms, pawn shops especially.
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I know that. I'm not advocating against buying a used gun, there's nothing inherently wrong with that. However, you should REALLY consider who the seller is. If it's from a friend that you trust, thats good. If it's from a local gun shop, that's probably good too. But buying it off a complete stranger based on a gut feeling is not a good idea.

Most career criminals who have guns know they are much more valuable on the street.
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perhaps they have access to more guns than the ones they've used in crimes and want to ditch those. I know that you think the gun is just a "tool" that is only as dangerous as the person holding it, but to LE and forensics, if it's been used in a homicide, it's a "murder weapon" and you DON'T want to be the one in possession of it.
 
When are they going to make it illegal to use tax dollars to destroy something that could be sold to help curb the wasteful spending of government? Even if the gift cards are donated, the cops are doing it on our dime and someone pays to transport and destory them.
 
That picture of that shotgun looks like an old Mossberg or New Haven Arms with the "perma-fix" choke system or whatever it s called. If it is that shotgun, then IMO the guy overpaid for it. It isn't worth $500. I paid $150 for mine recently and it is in excellent shape.
Now if it isn't one of the two shotguns that I mentioned, then he may have gotten a better deal.
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That's a Winchester Model 12 in good condition!
 
One of them, a C&R and 03FFL, picked up a nice shotgun valued around $500.00
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I have that same gun (with a different SR#:)) that I wouldn't sell for $500. The finish on the Winchester model 12 back then was very well done. Mine looks like new.
 
HEY!

Hey guys, I am the one that snagged that pretty Model 12 from the throes of the wrong American melting pot :)

I am very happy that I was able to save this shotgun, as it is my favorite shotgun of all time and the same type of gun I learned to shoot trap with (hence the name "pullnshoot25" :) )

I spent all day from 9am until 1pm (miraculously, I didn't get that bad of a sunburn :) ) trying to inform people that they were getting ripped off and that they shouldn't destroy these wonderful pieces of art but to no real avail. Many people decided to remain ignorant and act like "Sheeple to the Slaughter" (my name for the gun buyback)

The guns that were thrown away were not guns that would be used in crimes. There were very pretty hunting rifles, classic .22 rifles, older revolvers, 1940s-1960s duck guns of all varieties, even a flintlock rifle, origin and make unknown. THere were Rugers, Winchesters, Remingtons, Berettas, H&R, all the guns that any right-minded and red-blooded American would be proud to own. The news reporter said that a lot of the guns were junk (he was "privileged" enough to go in and see them) but I said that even the junkiest looking guns are worth more than 50 dollars.

That's pretty much all I got on it. Keep your eyes peeled for the months ahead, a lot of guys and myself have some pretty good ideas for future events like this...

CARRY ON!

-N8
http://caopencarry.blogspot.com
 
03Shadowbob, it is a 1959 Winchester Model 12. It was worth every penny I paid for it and I could have gotten it cheaper had I not opened with 200 bucks at the get-go. Honesty is sometimes expensive, hehe.

Bovice, the guy I bought that shotgun from from was basically scared to even look at it. There is no way he used it in a crime.

Also, most of the people were older guys. No younger people went to this.

CARRY ON!

-N8
 
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