Gun buyback in Dallas

[Sam Adams]

I wish some suckers would do something like this in San Antonio. I'd buy Wallyworld's stock of cheapo BB guns out and make quite a few bucks with which to buy real guns, reloading equipment, etc.

Does anyone know the best way to get old junk guns, other than by being a gunsmith?

 

[redneck2]

Yeah...

most neighborhhood type dealers have a "junk box" of older cheap DA revolvers and the like. Don't wanna sell 'em because they are dangerous or just won't work.

Tell the dealer what you want to do and you can get them cheap. He's usually happy to get a few bucks for the junk

 

[Azrael256]

First Presby is the big one off 75 at Northwest Highway-ish, right?

 

[JoeWang]

I dunno, I'm sure one or two good guns get traded in by accident, the rest are just honest, law-abiding folks looking to make a quick buck selling their crap or thieves selling their stolen crap.

A coworker said some guy tried to sell him a POS nickel Lorcin at a gas station near the airport for $10. $50 sure beats $10.

 

[HunterGatherer]

Let me see if I get this straight.

A) Bring in your (or someone else's) gun, and no questions asked they will "buy back" that which they never owned in the first place.

B) Since no questions are asked, the smarter than average street thugs could quite well be able to have blissninnies "buy back" murder weapons, forever separating said murder weapons from the aforesaid street thugs, making crime pay slightly more than usual.

C) Said street thugs could then put $50 toward a new "gat", and they could reasonably expect to be able to get paid at some future date to rid themselves of that gun should they be forced to cap another "homey".

D) People will not be lined up around the block to dope slap said blissninnies because it isn't nice to pick on the mentally impaired.









Am I getting that right?


Please God! Help me!

:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:


Frogs, Locusts, even Rodents of Unusual Size I could take, but a plague of liberals???? What do you think I'm made of? Unobtanium????

 

[tyme]

How is this legal? Wouldn't buying a bunch of weapons indiscriminately make the church a dealer, and require them to have an FFL?

azrael, aren't they talking about the one at 408 park ave, 75201 (aka 401 S. Harwood)?

You must be thinking of northpark presbyterian.

 

[seeker_two]

Anybody know where I could buy some broken-down Jennings' & Lorcins for about $5-10 apiece?

We could make a "killing" selling them our old junk guns that don't work, are too worthless to trade, and would be too expensive to repair.

Time to clean the closets....

 

[c_yeager]

How is this legal? Wouldn't buying a bunch of weapons indiscriminately make the church a dealer, and require them to have an FFL?

I may be wrong about this but, i THINK that you have to be SELLING guns in order to be a dealer. Buying guns is collecting and you dont need a license. Of course i dont see why they should be able to avoid the whole recieving stolen property thing or abstruction of justice (disposing of stolen property/murder weapons).

 

[greyhound]

I would also bet that these buy backs are run in cooperation with the police, and that serial #s (if any) are checked.

I doubt that any gang bangers are clearing murder weapons this way.

Its a stupid program, but to the average folk it sounds like "guns are off the street".

By the way, here in MD there is a permanent gun buy back (I think its a Baltimore City/County thing). I have to look at the lame poster every morning on the subway. Tax dollars at work, I guess.

 

[tyme]

c_yeager, by the letter of the law, yeah. Reasonably, yeah. But since when has the BATFE gone by reason or the law? Something about an organization buying guns (potentially lots of guns) indiscriminately makes me think the BATFE wouldn't be thrilled.

I guess if it's run in cooperation with the police, such that the police are really the transferee, the issue is irrelevant.

 

[jfh]

some years ago some of the

liberal churches in Mpls-St.Paul did this about twice, as I recall--they quit when they realized all the shootin' males in the metro area were bringing in the junk. It's probably been done since, but there sure isn't any promotion going on.

 

[ZekeLuvs1911]

People who organize these gun buy backs have no idea what they are really contributing to and should spend their time feeding the poor........

 

[tyme]

I think the best solution is to try to get the BATFE to arrest them for dealing without a license.

 

[Jeff Thomas]

The alternate buyback has been done ... in Phoenix, AZ two or three years ago. Competed with the city of Phoenix, as I recall, and really PO'ed the local LEO's. RickD, a poster here and on TFL, was involved.

He and others also noted the city organizers ended up handling some NFA firearms (e.g. short shotguns), so there were some interesting legal issues involved as well.

By all means ... set up alternative buybacks. Expect to be hassled, but ... the only way to maintain freedom and logic in society is to push back against idiocy from time to time.

Regards from TX

 

[jsalcedo]

Does anyone know the best way to get old junk guns, other than by being a gunsmith?

Go to the gunshow at the live oak civic center gunshow in universal city

 

[Amish_Bill]

I wonder what they're reaction would be to someone who turns up to turn in a broken down old relic who also had a rather expesive custom carry piece on their hip. ??
<Grin>

 

[another okie]

If you set up an alternate booth on public property, you might just find that the police will run you off. If you can get permission from a nearby landowner perhaps you could do it on private property. Or maybe the Dallas police wouldn't care. But be prepared to be hassled, and have your polite and tolerant and compliant mode switched on.

 

[jsalcedo]

Texas Church Tries Guns for Roses on Valentines - Sun Feb 15,11:02 AM

DALLAS (Reuters) - It's Valentine's Day Texas style and a church in Dallas
wants people to show their love by giving up their guns.

The First Presbyterian Church in Dallas is sponsoring a program for
people to turn in their guns to mark the Valentine's celebration of love.
The sponsors will give $50 for each gun, and would be glad if the cash was
used to purchase candy or flowers for Valentine's Day.
"We are not trying to disarm Cupid of his bow and arrow, but provide
another meaningful opportunity for individuals to show their affection for
their families by making their homes safe this Valentine's Day," said Bruce
Buchanan, a pastor at the church.
The church has sponsored gun buybacks before but Buchanan said he moved
the program to Valentine's Day because most of the people who turned in guns
had families and they did not want the guns in their houses.
The church is aiming to buyback about 150 guns. The Valentine's Day
celebration will be overseen by armed police

 

[sbow]

I went, partly out of curiosity and partly to dispose of worthless broken junk I couldn't in good conscience sell to anyone who might be inclined to depend on it. By my figures, the aquisition price of what I sold them was only 85% of what they paid me; the current value was more like 45% of what they paid. I call that a good deal.

Turnout wasn't very large due to weather, and the few other people I saw were well-to-do looking folks apparently there for the same reason: to get fifty dollars for broken guns not worth half that. Organizers didn't appear too put out that they were obviously being taken advantage of by some or all of the sellers.

Comments made by two of the organizers indicated they were gun owners, which seemed a bit odd to me. Perhaps they got first dibbs on anything good which came in? Locale was the Stewpot garage on the south side of Young St., across from the church. Might be hard to set up an alternative buyback outside since drive-ins would turn directly off the street into the garage. I took a few hundred in cash in case I saw something worth an alternative bid, but I didn't.

Security was a sheriff's deputy. The garage is not posted against concealed carry. They used to do these buy-backs for grocery coupons. If they have another one for cash, I may be back. A deal like this takes the risk out of buying something for $50 or less: if it doesn't work or you don't like it, and if you can't sell it elsewhere, the Presbyterians will always take it off your hands and give you a portrait of Grant in return.

 

[whm1974]

I would also bet that these buy backs are run in cooperation with the police, and that serial #s (if any) are checked.

I'm sure gang bangers remove serial numbers off any weapons they use in crimes.

Bill Meadows

 

[sturmruger]

I think we as gun owners should organize one of these of gun buy back programs. We could pool some money together and buy all sorts of interesting guns. I think I would put in the fine print that we would have the option to turn down any gun that we do not want. That way we wouldn't be forced to purchase any Lorcins or Jennings. I would love to see some Ruger Red Label Shotguns or some other gun that is a little out of my price range at the moment.

 

[Sam Adams]

jsalcedo

Go to the gunshow at the live oak civic center gunshow in universal city

I know what you mean. I went there...once. Won't do it again. Heck, the cops at the front made me check my carry gun - not merely unload it and put the plastic dohickey through the mag well, like at Saxet, but CHECK it. So much for trying to see if anything that I might want to add to the gun would fit.... They also didn't seem too thrilled that I even had it with me, and I got "the look" when I got outside the door (about 15 feet away) and immediately loaded it and put it IWB. And, yes, the show was a POS party - nothing much good there, a thorough rip-off of my $6 entry fee (vs. $5 for Saxet). Oh, well - I guess that this proves the fact that one learns only by making mistakes.