Sadest gun in the scrap bin

[alexander45]

What's the rarest and most depressing gun you have spotted in a gun buy back bin or photo of a buy back bin?
I just seen one with a marbles game getter from out in ca and those things are rather rare and worth quite a bit now rather sad seeing that some little old person or ungrateful welp of a child went and turned a 100 year old $2000 rifle on in for $50 bucks! so what's the most atrocious turn in you have spotted?

 

[speedway]

I refuse to support the notion of the gun "buy back".

I would not bring them a thing. Even a ten dollar junker, even if their offer is ten fold or more.

If no one turns in anything, then maybe they will go away. All those ten dollar junkers are lined up and photographed to show what a "success" their "buy back" is.

PS- They can't be "bought back", if they did not own them to begin with.

 

[Speedo66]

I saw a "US" marked single action Colt sitting on the table, turned in at a buy-back in Brooklyn some years ago.

I questioned the NYPD range personnel handling the buy-back about the expected outcome of the Colt. Normally guns taken in are destroyed, but they allowed that they would try and keep it as a specimen or training tool. They didn't want to see it destroyed either.

To be honest, I wondered if it made it to the academy or went home with one of them.

 

[Swing]

A few years back there was a StG-44 turned in at one of those buy back events. IIRC, it was saved however. If that had gone in the furnace.

Most of the footage I've seen of buy-back guns were cheap crap, broken, or both. Every now and again a decent piece shows up though.

 

[bainter1212]

Just recently, there was a "buyback" in San Francisco and some fool traded in three near-perfect looking 03A3 rifles. He probably could've gotten $1K apiece but instead got a Walmart gift card

 

[Hardtarget]

What was it the circus guy said?...about a sucker born every ...

Mark

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Environmental and collector tragedies.

I watched either the state of Massachusetts or Boston in particular giddily dump a barge of confiscated firearms into the Atlantic.

The contents, even only what was seen casually, was epic.

Thompson
Johnsons
Model 29
M-1 Carbines as well as Garands
1911 galore
SAAs/clones
Lever guns...


Pretty much, you name it and an example was likely tere in these hundreds of guns.

Oh, to have dove on that site!


Todd.

 

[BSA1]

Many years ago when I was a cop and had hair on my head we had a murder case where the estranged husband shot and killed his wife.

He went to a store and brought a brand new Colt Detective Special and a box of 38 Special ammunition. He drove out to country and fired 6 rounds through it to make sure it worked. A week later he shot his wife twice in front of their children and fled the crime scene.

He drove out to a lake and thought about killing himself but decided not to as he thought his two children would need him as they grew up. He put the gun back in the factory box from Colt and put it in a trash can along with box of ammunition less the 8 rounds he had fired. He turned himself in to the police (he was in a different county) and they recovered the gun and ammunition.

The gun sat in our evidence locker until all of the appeals were finished after his conviction for murder. I was at the station the day the Chief took the gun to the City Shop to be destroyed by being cut up with torch and welder. I pleaded unsuccessfully to let me buy the gun but it was no go due to the Court ordering it's destroyed it's destruction.

 

[Dinosaur1]

Mint war trophy Luger with deaths head and lightning bolts with issue holster. Into the furnace.

 

[statelineblues]

A few years back there was a StG-44 turned in at one of those buy back events. IIRC, it was saved however.

It happened in Hartford, CT - the two cops running the "turn-in" recognized it for what it was and managed to save it. I believe the gun ended up going to a local museum (although unregistered it was not in functional condition which may have helped).

 

[NY'er]

I watched either the state of Massachusetts or Boston in particular giddily dump a barge of confiscated firearms into the Atlantic.

The contents, even only what was seen casually, was epic.

Thompson
Johnsons
Model 29
M-1 Carbines as well as Garands
1911 galore
SAAs/clones
Lever guns...


Pretty much, you name it and an example was likely tere in these hundreds of guns.

Oh, to have dove on that site!


Todd.

Oh how I wish I'd have seen that....



Have I mentioned that I'm a scuba diver?

 

[joem1945]

If they ever have a program out here I'll turn in a busted taurus .25 acp POS.

 

[EIB0879]

Yeah, gun buy backs aren't real popular down here.

 

[ApacheCoTodd]

Oh how I wish I'd have seen that....



Have I mentioned that I'm a scuba diver?

No... You really, really don't.

Sad and aggravating - exceptionally wasteful and a pandering quash on a lot of American history to boot.

But I know what you mean though you'd have to have been one the gas and likely still have never found them.

Todd.

 

[jim in Anchorage]

I watched either the state of Massachusetts or Boston in particular giddily dump a barge of confiscated firearms into the Atlantic.

The contents, even only what was seen casually, was epic.

Thompson
Johnsons
Model 29
M-1 Carbines as well as Garands
1911 galore
SAAs/clones
Lever guns...


Pretty much, you name it and an example was likely tere in these hundreds of guns.

Oh, to have dove on that site!


Todd.

You better belive the minute they left I would have been out there with a strong magnet tied to a rope.

 

[xxjumbojimboxx]

You better belive the minute they left I would have been out there with a strong magnet tied to a rope.

^ lol

 

[longspurr]

Older folks or those not computer literate - are not aware of how easily an items value can be checked.

second, surviving widows do not place the value on "guy things" like their former husbands did.

government officials have NO problem destroying any item. Value does not matter to them - it is not their money.

After a war the nimrods in charge have no problem in destroying almost anything. Sometimes I think the scorched earth policy is mandatory government policy.

Example: after WW2 the famous PT boats were mostly destroyed.
Of the 531 patrol torpedo boats built, only 69 were lost, including losses to enemy fire, storms, accidents, friendly fire, or simply being worn out.

Percentage-wise, this made a high loss ratio, but with the US Navy's attitude that PT boats were expendable to begin with and had always been considered expendable, and none were expected to survive the war, the loss ratio could said to be low.

After the war, most of them were decommissioned and destroyed BECAUSE expendable equipment cost too much to bring back, they didn't have the authority to sell them, and they couldn't drive them all the way back to California.

Much of this destruction took place at PT Base 17 at Samar, Philippine Islands, near Bobon Point. Only nine PT boat hulls survive today, some on display in museums such as the PT Boat Museum at Battle Cove, Fall River, Massachusetts, United States.

World War II Database
http://ww2db.com/ship_spec.php?ship_id=3...

 

[Snowbank!]

As a member of the us bureau of mines, I watched a case of 1911s and two pre64 winchesters cut up when the DC office decided we had to carry our own weapons and had to get turn in our government arms.

 

[farmershooter]

I refuse to support the notion of the gun "buy back".

I would not bring them a thing. Even a ten dollar junker, even if their offer is ten fold or more.

If no one turns in anything, then maybe they will go away. All those ten dollar junkers are lined up and photographed to show what a "success" their "buy back" is.

PS- They can't be "bought back", if they did not own them to begin with.

I am with you!

 

[Wishoot]

A mid-1960's PPK.

 

[Scooter22]

Our city had a buy back in the 80s. I cashed in a broken starter pistol for 50.00 bucks. Behind the counter I saw several guns and one caught my eye. It was a Winchester 1886 short rifle with octagon barrel and checkered stock. When I inquired about it they said the "old guy in the grey wool suit you passed coming in dropped it of. He couldn't get ammo for it!!. I went back out to see if I could find the guy but he was gone. So I went back in and gave the desk cops an earfull and got a higher ranking one to complained to also. I told them they robbed the old guy because of the value of the gun. I also contacted the local paper about it. When they ran a article about the buy back they noted about the old guy. A week or so later they reported the old guy came back in and they returned the Winchester to him to sell to a collector.

 

[TimSr]

I'd like to stand outside one of these stupid events, and make offers as they come in.

Some lady a few years back brought in something that turned out to be worth like $12,000, but somebody was smart enough to recognize it for what it was, and it ended up in a museum, and she ended up with a receipt for a $12,000 charitable contribution at least.