silicosys4
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You are absolutely misreading the intent of this thread. This is not a thread to convince anybody to do anything, or to state my intent to do anything. This is a lighthearted jab, meant to inject humor into a tense situation, to poke fun by asking what POS junk you'd sell for $100 and feel like you came out ahead. You personally wouldn't. Lets leave it at that.
You may not be a fan of buyback programs, but there are plenty of people who get rid of unused firearms that are otherwise mouldering away in a closet waiting to be stolen because the owner inherited it or came into it somehow, isn't a gun fan, doesn't care for it properly, doesn't respect it, and doesn't want anything to do with it. You aren't beating down their door to get it, and $100 is grocery money for a week for a little old lady trying to sell her late husbands sears & robucks shotgun.
I don't know if you've ever even been to a "buyback" program, but that fantasy in your mind of grandchildren swiping their grandfathers pristine 1873 winchester, and selling it for $100....aside from a few rare instances, that's a fantasy. 95% of the guns that are purchased are not worth even the piddling amount of money they pay...and a good amount of them are from shady people and its a good thing the owner and the firearm are being separated. A good amount of them are even stolen, so have fun "intercepting" all those sweet treasures.
Not to mention that it looks really bad when you get caught intercepting, buying, and carting a stolen gun away from a "buyback" program.
How much does that help the pro-2a cause when the police have to ask you where you came into that stolen gun? "Uh...I "saved" it from being taken off the streets at a buyback program, officer". Yea, that makes points for us in the LE community. It doesnt' say good things about you if you'd shop for your guns at one of the shadiest venues possible, where you are pretty much guaranteed to get stolen property passing through.
What is your idea for an easy alternative for people who have no interest in their unwanted firearms to get rid of them? Do you have any alternative or are you just allowing an attitude of blanket-paranoia to settle comfortably over you? Generally it pays to be vigilant, but in this case you are shooting at noises in the dark.
Most "buyback" (Yea, I know its a poorly chosen word. That's what they are called. Get over it.) programs are city and community funded anyways....not some big brother conspiracy.
I was somehow talking about how "Obama's a king"? Quit letting your paranoia put words into other peoples mouths. You sound like a fool.
Pretty ridiculous to think that every Rohm .22 POS, cut down and sawed off break open H&R, and Forehand and Wadsworth is an heirloom that must be preserved at all costs because someday they will be used to fight tyranny or be worth a fortune, or are "art"... and that people who don't want the firearm that they own, should ONLY have the option of selling it to you.
lighten up, put the tinfoil hat away, pack up your need to mock people, and troll elsewhere.
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