Gun Buyback program

[TrybalRage]

In my city, last week there was a buyback program. The officer's words bothered me then when I read the article, and they bother me now.


Gun-buyback program will be held today

Reading police want guns off the street, whether they were used in a crime or not.
And to help make that happen, the department is holding an amnesty buyback program today at the old Reading Station, 951 N. Sixth St.
"We are asking no questions," Lt. Lionel Carter said. "All we are doing is, after the gun is turned in we'll run a check to see if it is stolen and try to return it to the rightful owner."
In exchange for the guns, the department will issue $100 certificates for either new sneakers or groceries.
With $10,000 in certificates, paid for by company sponsorships and money from forfeitures, police are hoping to get 100 guns off the street.
The program is sponsored by Sneaker Villa, Giant Food Stores Inc., Weiss Markets, Price Rite and the Buttonwood IGA.
"There are so many guns out there and so many accidents with children," Carter said.
"More than just getting illegal guns, we are trying to get guns out of houses where they can be stolen.
"Whatever somebody brings in we will take them. We'll take anything and everything."
That includes BB guns, although they will not be eligible for certificates, Carter said.
City police are planning a second buyback for Aug 20 in conjunction with an anti-drug march in the city.




Thats all for now, but a new artice in yesterdays paper said that they got 1 starter pistol, 2 BB rifles, 8 shotguns, 17 rifles and 72 handguns (52 revolvers and 20 semis)

I will copy that article tomorrow. Its almost funny (if it hadn't really happened).

Who wants to get together on the 20th? Sixth street?

P.S. You can contact the reporter, Keith Mayer, at 610-371-5024 or [email protected]

 

[Sir Aardvark]

Quite a few years ago they had a "gun buy back program" in some state that I can't remember where they were giving $100.00 cash for ANY firearm you brought in.

These 2 guys were going to the local gun stores and buying every cheap Davis pistol they could get (they cost about $60.00 then), and then turning them in, still brand new, for $100.00.

I believe they ended up getting busted, and had to give all the money back.

Things like this make you want to stock up on some old Russian Mosin-Nagants from SOG or Century Int'l for $39.00 each and cashing in on them.

 

[dasmi]

More than just getting illegal guns, we are trying to get guns out of houses where they can be stolen.

I guess the Government had better confiscate cars as well. I wonder how many stolen vehicles are used in crimes? Probably more than stolen guns, yes?

 

[Marshall]

So now the criminals have more of a reason to break into your home, steal your guns and take them to the cops for $100.00 each no questions asked. Nice going.

Sounds like you need to look into prosecuting the police for knowingly buying stolen property.

 

[Standing Wolf]

More than just getting illegal guns, we are trying to get guns out of houses where they can be stolen.

I can't tell you how grateful I feel that the government is trying so hard to protect me from thieves. It's for my own good.

 

[chris in va]

Heard on the radio some locality is doing the same thing, and melting down the weapons to make playground equipment. Seriously.

 

[Sharps Shooter]

"The program is sponsored by Sneaker Villa, Giant Food Stores Inc., Weiss Markets, Price Rite and Buttonwood IGA."

How convenient it is that gun owners have been provided a list of stores they need to boycott. However, gun owners will have to make the effort to write letters or at least send emails to the owners/managers of the stores explaining the boycotts. Obviously, the owners/managers lack the intellect to figure it out for themselves. And a few well written, however irate letters from potential customers carry alot of weight in the retail world. At least in my experience.

 

[HighVelocity]

Some of these guns being turned in may be stolen or have been used in unsolved crimes. Taking into account the type of person that would trade in a gun for sneakers or groceries.
I wonder if they through them in the incinerator immediately or if they document the person that turned it in and do any ballistics tests, ck serial numbers etc.

 

[nhhillbilly]

How about setting up about a block away and look at the guns being turned in. If it is a firearm you want why not purchase it for $110.00. YOu both win. I don't believe PA private sales need to go via a FFL. Or do they.

 

[Onmilo]

How does one "Buy Back" what they didn't sell in the first place??

Did the sponsoring Grocerie Stores provide the guns to the soon to be burgled houses and are now having a major guilt trip????

 

[jobu07]

Why make the starting offer $110? Start off at $100 and work your way up

 

[dolanp]

Well for $100 they obviously are targeting the .25 Lorcin type of guns that were probably used in gangsta-land shootings. Only a complete idiot would take any decent gun and trade it in for a hundred bucks in grocery or shoe certificates.

 

[hayseed]

These 2 guys were going to the local gun stores and buying every cheap Davis pistol they could get (they cost about $60.00 then), and then turning them in, still brand new, for $100.00.

I believe they ended up getting busted, and had to give all the money back.

Busted for what? The new pistols were still their property, and they decided to "get them off the street".

 

[armoredman]

Ditto - if it's no questionds asked, then 5 U-Fix-Ems M44s from Century ought to fit the bill just fine. Double your money. A buddy has a US Revolver Company .32 with two busted springs in a baggie for the first government gun purchase they do down here - haven't seen one yet.
It isn't a "buyback" - the government never owned them to begin with, so how can they buy them "back"? It's just a government private party gun purchase program.

 

[StopTheGrays]

Does it have to be a whole product or can it be just what the ATF says qualifies as a firearm? I mean can you just turn in a receiver or action?

 

[TrybalRage]

So now the criminals have more of a reason to break into your home, steal your guns and take them to the cops for $100.00 each no questions asked. Nice going.

That's what I thought as well, also the kid whos dad won't get him those new nikes will just swipe his pop's old pistol.

How about setting up about a block away and look at the guns being turned in. If it is a firearm you want why not purchase it for $110.00. YOu both win. I don't believe PA private sales need to go via a FFL. Or do they.

Block away my ass. I want to stand right in front of the police station. Open carry too. Rifles can be FTF, handguns need FFL.

Does it have to be a whole product or can it be just what the ATF says qualifies as a firearm? I mean can you just turn in a receiver or action?

The follow-up article says that they had to be working firearms. I will copy that one tonight.

 

[StopTheGrays]

The follow-up article says that they had to be working firearms.

Well, there goes another method to fund my retirement.

 

[scout26]

I'm waiting for one of these in Chicago. I've got an old winchester .22 pump. I think the barrel is now about .25 given it's accuracy (It'll hit a 8.5 x 11" sheet of paper 2 or 3 times out of 10 shots at 25 yds !!!!) And an old Chinese copy Browning 1903 that was dug up out a friends front yard when they were putting in a new water main. I "cleaned" it up, but I wouldn't shoot it if my life depended on it. I'd load it and throw it at the BG, hoping he would use it

I'd prefer cash, but I'll take groceries...... Venison Helper is in which aisle ???

 

[saltydog]

So are the Police buying back what they have already sold to the neighbor hood residents?

 

[captain obvious]

I've always wondered, especially for such a program in a state like PA, what would happen if you went there and offered people in line $105 in cash for their guns? Not necessarly all of them, but even just the few that catch your eye....

 

[Commissar Gribb]

scout26,

where do you live that you're finding autopistols buried in the yard?

 

[TrybalRage]

I've always wondered, especially for such a program in a state like PA, what would happen if you went there and offered people in line $105 in cash for their guns? Not necessarly all of them, but even just the few that catch your eye....

Exactly what I'd like to do. Especially if there were a group of us

Nothing illegal about it. Rifles/Shotguns especially.

 

[mummac]

"More than just getting illegal guns, we are trying to get guns out of houses where they can be stolen.

I interpreted this differently than most of you. To me it says "Hey Mr./Ms. Notashooter, you know that gun you've got laying around that you never shoot, clean or even look at and have improperly stored? Why don't you give it to us and get your kid a new pair of hightops, before it winds up in the wrong hands."

I took some junky .25 to one of these "buy backs" a few years ago. I got a $40 gift certificate to Wal-Mart out of it. There were trades going on in the parking lot. It saddened me to see an old luger in the pile of "bought back" guns. I hope an officer got to take it home rather than it getting destroyed.

 

[pete f]

I had a Iver johnson 22 that i found in a wall cavity of a house that I was working on, It had a broken hammer and the cylinder pin was a nail. I got a hunny bee from the chicago police for it.


I think the other idea of walking up and down the row of people and offering to buy the good guns for 110 buck is a good one. I have seen a couple of the local "buy back" tables and they had auto 5 's, ninety four winchesters, a engraved smith, colt new services' and one python. you really have to figure what in the world the people are thinking wehn they do that.

 

[scout26]

CG,

scout26,

where do you live that you're finding autopistols buried in the yard?

A friend of mine lives in Berwyn, IL. Next town over is Cicero.......Can you say Al Capone ????? This thing looks like it was buried in the '30's.


I guess that's the closest I'll come to finding an *Assualt Weapon* laying in the street........sigh........I could really go for an AR-15.......