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Turned in a gun today

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...give it to a friendly theater group...
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As a member of a friendly theatre group - I agree with Bogie. The last show I was in was a whodunnit comedy with all kinds of gun play. We are always looking for realistic props. Guns have to be "de-activated". It sounds as though this one definately fit that description - assuming it could have been restored to look decent.

Seriously folks...if any of you have guns that are past the point of repair but could be restored to look OK - please PM me.
 
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I would rather die than give the police any gun. And as for someone getting ahold of it and the father (who is in an assisted living facility) being in trouble, let's get real.
 
Why treat a rusted out, worthless gun in any different manne
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Your not giving them a rusted out worthless gun...

Your giving them a moral victory. One that they like to publicly share with the media as some sort of twisted dog and pony show, and paid for with taxpayer dollars.
 
I don't understand why people complain about the idea of turning the gun in at a gun buy-back. You're in fact taking money out of the anti's pockets, which most of us would probably use to fund our hobby (to buy ammo, guns, accessories, ect.) and therefore support the gun-industry. IMO that's a good thing...
 
Isn't it fortunate that governments are willing to take our guns? Don't feel bad about supporting their attempts. It's another gun off the streets.

Sylvanus has a point. The people of Australia turned their guns into their government's buyback. That took money out of the anti-gun government's pockets. And the former gun owners got money to fund their hobby and support the gun industry. If their government ever allows them to buy or own guns again. http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9709/30/britain.aus.gunban/
 
I have heard several times of people turning in unwanted guns to police. I never understood the concept, but it seems to make some people happy.

Of course, most of those guns go back on the street. Especially if they are high dollar guns. I suspect the junk goes in the trash.

In larger cities, perhaps they are destroyed. Even then, I bet the parts are stripped first.

If I wanted a gun destroyed, I would destroy it myself. That way, you know it was destroyed. A compressed charge of Bullseye with a heavy bullet will usually do it. I recommend a a tensile triggering mechanism, (long string).
 
Quote: On a lighter note, not a buyback scheme, but the recent Boston scheme that no one signed up for to let the police search their houses, warmed my heart.


Anybody got a link? It's not that I distrust you on this one, I'm just curious to know more. The level of stupidity/insanity that has to be involved there boggles my mind...
 
I kind of look at the gun buy back program as "Kids, go steal one of Dad's or Grand Dad's guns and we'll give you a new pair of Nikes, fresh from the Peoples Republic of China."

If I were to ever have an undesireable gun fall into my lap, I would hold on to it. When you're away on vacation or something and some non-functioning guns are in the house, a burglar may grab the 'easy buck' rather than taking the effort to get the harder to get items that may be in your home. He doesn't know if they work or not, he just sees an easy buck.

Besides, you'll have something to turn in when the collection teams come around during the next Democrat regime. I'm affraid this nest occupation of America by enemies of freedom will get real ugly, fast.
 
Quote- Grendalbane wrote: "Of course, most of those guns go back on the street. Especially if they are high dollar guns. I suspect the junk goes in the trash."

I remember a case in Florida where a policeman was selling the "destroyed" guns. They were supposedly dropped off into the ocean, but started turning up getting confiscated by miscreants later. He was featured on America's Most Wanted if I remember right.

I had an aquaintance in VA that owned a destroyed gun, and I have one given me by a little old, white haired lady, (who is now deceased) that was given to her by the local Chief of Police (it's who you know). The gun was confiscated from a man he arrested. She called the Chief complaining of a man hanging around her daughters window, and the Chief came over and gave it to her.

I could list more, but you get the idea.
 
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Wasn't there just a thread posted about 2 gun dealers that showed up at a 250.00$ "buy back" W/ something like 80 hundred dollar guns? ( I think jensens & lorcins were mentioned) they turned in so many of them that they broke the bank & closed the "buy back"
They took the money & bought better guns.

I have no problem W/ that. If CSPD ever does a "buy back" @ those prices I'm gonna buy as many 80.00$ Mosins as I can get my hands on.
 
If CSPD ever does a "buy back" @ those prices I'm gonna buy as many 80.00$ Mosins as I can get my hands on.
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It would be a shame to do that to functioning rifles. At least Lorcins are bona fide junk.
 
What can it hurt if we help the anti-gun people who run the buyback programs think that they're succeeding. Like would it encourage them to continue? And would they be able to keep telling the public that they're succeeding? Nah, couldn't happen.
 
Back when I was working as a mechanic a fellow mechanic gave me a horribly rusted Yugo Mauser Bayonet. I mean bad, thing looked like it came from Truk Lagoon. I filled a bucket with some Transmission fluid and put it under my workbench. Forgot about it for about a year as it got pushed further and further under the bench. Was cleaning out my stuff when I'd finally had enough of the job and found it again, not in bad shape now
 
Should have soaked it in LiquidWrench for a week. I have a Canadian gunsmith friend who was given a 1911 fished out of the river. It was rusted solid so they figured he could use it as a paperweight. He soaked it in oil and after several weeks, got it to work. Then he got it to work and then brought it back to them. They were shocked.

Anyhow, if it was a goner, it would have been better to take it to one of those police buy-back programs and made some $$$ from it.
 
I don't see abusing those buy-back programs as folding, I see it as bleeding the beast.

I was quite happy to hear that at one such 'buyback' offering $250, the first two gentlemen in line were gunstore owners, who between them dumped like 70 guns on the program. Sure, the media might get a good story out of it and boost the numbers, but the media would do a story on it anyways. The fact that these gundealers laughed all the way to the bank and bought more guns with the money is golden.

I'd love to pull up with a truckload of dollar store capguns and turn them in, bleed em dry.
 
Moving my parents into assisted living, and dealing with decades of accumulated junk in the house to get rid of, has left me with very little time.

I could have kept the rusted gun, but where? I don't want it contaminating the other guns in my safe. I could have destroyed it, but that takes time.

This seemed like the fastest and easiest way to get rid of it. And the police chief in our city is 100% pro-gun, so I don't expect him to use this for political advantage.
 
Thanks for the link. Y'know, some days all the baa-ing hurts my ears...
 
No problem Snap. It is pathetic, but this is a testament that sometimes people are smarter than the .gov gives them credit for.

Mark my words though, this is not the last you will see of shenanigans like this.
 
At my local buyback they say one gun a person. I love when some older white gentleman shows up in the heart of the ghetto at the buyback with a box full of junk pistols and is crestfallen!

And they do sort thru the trash at least in my area before the landfill. You would be surprised on what people toss out and what turns up, including guns. My dad used to deliver welding supplies to such a facility.
 
don't blame the OP for what he did given the circumstances. By giving it to the cops, you relieve yourself of any legal liability for the gun. Don't have to worry about it being stolen, or some idiot trying to fix it and fire it (and having the mother of all kabooms

If you say so. You really think dropping it off at PD will avoid any chance of those negative endings?
Lets just say if it was me there might be more damage before it got handed in.
 
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