What would your "buyback" gun or guns be?
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Jaxondog
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Anyone who turn's in a weapon, pos or not for a piddly ass $100 is a moron. It's not about the profit, it's about how this administration keep's pushing and pushing and pushing, chipping and chipping away at our Constituional Right's. When do we stop? Certainly not by taking handout's for your gun's. They are your gun's, not their's. Did they buy them for you? Buy back my ass. Don't go, period. It's just that simple. Moron's 
ETXhiker
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Any gun you turn in, adds to the appearance of their success. Use your brain, people - this is getting real, quickly.
I'd be the next guy to take a spent AT-4 ROCKET TUBE in for turn in, except I'd seal the ends with green riggers tape from the inside and put a few pounds of weight inside, reglue the front cap back on, ask to be on the national news and say "y'all this things for reals, but we's got no needs fars them a'salt rockets, since Mr O took out Usama Binlaiden single handed with a team of Seals"
I have a pretty realistic air soft pistol some were around here, hate toy guns, just never threw the darn thing in the trash, I'd try to pass it off if they ever had a "gun by back" in my area.
Around Eastern North Carolina... anyone caught selling guns at a "buy back" would most likely be arrested and charged with treason, deported to California, I don't expect to see one of them anytime soon.
I have a pretty realistic air soft pistol some were around here, hate toy guns, just never threw the darn thing in the trash, I'd try to pass it off if they ever had a "gun by back" in my area.
Around Eastern North Carolina... anyone caught selling guns at a "buy back" would most likely be arrested and charged with treason, deported to California, I don't expect to see one of them anytime soon.
The lowliest gun I have is a very old (early 20th century) H&R .32 short
break-top revolver that I don't think I would want to shoot on a dare.
The timing is so "off" it would probably shave 25% of the bullet off and out the side of the cylinder when it fired.
But I wouldn't give up even that gun on a buy-back, just on general principle.
I do have a couple of old Mattel "Fanner 50s" I might sell them.
Walter
break-top revolver that I don't think I would want to shoot on a dare.
The timing is so "off" it would probably shave 25% of the bullet off and out the side of the cylinder when it fired.
But I wouldn't give up even that gun on a buy-back, just on general principle.
I do have a couple of old Mattel "Fanner 50s" I might sell them.
Walter
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A buyback sounds as if the dealer, distributor or manufacturer were buying it back. Like "back" where it came from. It didn't come from the gubmint and neither do our rights!
janedoedad
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That is about $50-$75 more than I could get otherwise. Besides, it was a hypothetical question. I live in Georgia. Never heard of any buy(back) operations except for metro Atlanta.
USAF_Vet
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Joe, the insults are not helping. I know you've been around only a couple of weeks and perhaps are not fully aware of how things work around here just yet, but cool it.
Most of the comments, if you have understood them, are people talking about abusing their little system with broken toys and junk scrap metal that resembles, or was once, a firearm. Breaking the system from the inside, so to speak. If all they get for their time, effort and money is broken junk and zero impact on crime, these moronic "buy-backs" might come to an end. No one is, and I'll quote one of your favorite lines, "pissing their panties" over buy backs. We're laughing at them and discussing how to exploit them.
Most of the comments, if you have understood them, are people talking about abusing their little system with broken toys and junk scrap metal that resembles, or was once, a firearm. Breaking the system from the inside, so to speak. If all they get for their time, effort and money is broken junk and zero impact on crime, these moronic "buy-backs" might come to an end. No one is, and I'll quote one of your favorite lines, "pissing their panties" over buy backs. We're laughing at them and discussing how to exploit them.
mgmorden
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All well and good, but they're not going to care. In England and Australia when they did this they sent the collected guns to the shredder anyways.
mgmorden
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Its about principles more than money. Personally if I had a gun I truly didn't want I'd destroy it myself long before I supported one of these "buy backs" and lent legitimacy to their cause.
Chevelle SS
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cheap black powder 44 revolver and a Westernfield 22
Not the OP, and others. They are talking about turning in real guns based on a buy back that does not exist. Lumped with all the ban/confiscation hysteria, obama's a king who will do anything, the Constitution is dead, executive orders and martial law, etc, etc.
Yeah, I'm learning how things work on this board. Sad. There is no point in debating these people. They need to be mocked.
bobbo
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I have a single-shot 12-gauge with a 19" hacksawed barrel I'd give up. Wonder if I saw it down another two inches I could get more from it .
.USAF_Vet
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The OP said something about tomato stakes, and laughing at what guns they would pay $100-$200 dollars for. He specifically mentioned buying an unreliable jamomatic and flipping it at a voluntary but back for a profit. I'm not reading the same panic posts as you, I suppose.
As for mocking people, it's not necessary. It's counter productive. If people need anything, it's maybe a logical fact based education of what is possible and what is a 'Red Dawn' fantasy. Insulting people isn't going to do that. In an case, if people refuse to listen to reason, who are you to force that change of opinion upon them, or ridicule them for their mistaken beliefs? The last thing we need on THR and in the gun community at large is another bully, browbeating anyone who doesn't see things your way. They don't need to be mocked. You want to mock them.
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I would NEVER participate in a gun buyback program. You can get much better prices selling to an FFL (their inventory needs a boost from used weapons anyway) or doing a legal bill of sale to someone in your state. $50-200 gift card or cash is nothing compared to the value you can get now. I got rid of one of my handguns yesterday. If I had brought it to a gun buy back program, probably been given 50 or 100 for it. Sold it to a LGS for $300 and put it towards a new bolt action. There is no logical reason to sell a firearm to a gun buyback program when someone else will pay top dollar for something that will not end up at the bottom of molten metal.
Hokkmike
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I would throw my gun away before I participated in this program.
RetiredUSNChief
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A "buy back"?
That's a politically correct term that has no basis in fact or reality.
"Buy back" implies an original owner offering to repurchase the weapon from you.
The state is no such owner.
"Buy back" also implies a fair market falue in exchange for your weapon. Either in terms under a contract, which may be up to the full value origionally paid, or some lower price for what is now a used weapon.
I'm sorry...but unless a person has a piece of junk, there are few weapons out there for which $100 (or even $200 for an Assault Weapon...whatever that may be) is anywhere NEAR a "fair market price".
If I were looking to unload any of my firearms simply to get rid of them, I would look for a buyer who would be truely interested in them as the fully functional, well cared for, practical firearms that they are. Someone who would treat them with the respect that they deserve. Someone who would really appreciate them for what they are.
Selling them to the state for pennies on the dollar just so they can destroy them?
Bugger that.
That's a politically correct term that has no basis in fact or reality.
"Buy back" implies an original owner offering to repurchase the weapon from you.
The state is no such owner.
"Buy back" also implies a fair market falue in exchange for your weapon. Either in terms under a contract, which may be up to the full value origionally paid, or some lower price for what is now a used weapon.
I'm sorry...but unless a person has a piece of junk, there are few weapons out there for which $100 (or even $200 for an Assault Weapon...whatever that may be) is anywhere NEAR a "fair market price".
If I were looking to unload any of my firearms simply to get rid of them, I would look for a buyer who would be truely interested in them as the fully functional, well cared for, practical firearms that they are. Someone who would treat them with the respect that they deserve. Someone who would really appreciate them for what they are.
Selling them to the state for pennies on the dollar just so they can destroy them?
Bugger that.
pockets
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Try using only Ramline magazines in it. They made the original 30-round magazine for the Tec-22 and it has an added extra nub on the left feed lip that greatly assists in ejection. Most other brands do not have this nub, as the Ruger 10/22 doesn't need it. I have found the Ramline 25-round works 100% in my Tec-22. YMMV though.
Some folks replace the stock Tec-22 plastic ejector with a short length of drill rod.
A Volquartsen 10/22 extractor helps also, but my tec-22 runs 100% without one (once I switched to using old Ramline mags).
All that said; I would not aid any buy-back program.
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