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  • Sav99
    Maybe some people who had their guns stolen will get them back.
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  • Jacob2008
    Dad and I might go up there, who knows...

    Is it legal to walk down the line and buy guns?
    He doesnt really want to go, but who knows.
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  • Mk 19
    quote:He said that no one will be asked any questions about where they got the guns.

    There is a great deal, go steal all the guns you want and they'll give you $50 each for them[}:)]
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  • cce1302
    They're not buying them BACK, they're just buying them.
    The gov't never owned them in the first place. Only a manufacturer, distributor, dealer, or previous owner can buy a gun back.
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  • AZEX
    If anyone wants to acquire and buy "in bulk" bunches of guns, no questions asked. the ATF would have a FIT..."what do you need them for?" "where's your 01 FFL...03 FFL?" etc..

    But these idiots get a pass, because they're politically untoucheable.

    Bravo Sierra!!!

    D.
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  • Sav99
    quote:Originally posted by Jacob2008
    Dad and I might go up there, who knows...

    Is it legal to walk down the line and buy guns?
    He doesnt really want to go, but who knows.



    I've thought about that myself. But some I'm sure are stolen and there would be no way to know if you were buying a stolen piece.
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  • Cutiegirlracing
    I would never turn a gun in. I don't care if it's cheap crap or not. Any gun that is destroyed simply because it is a gun is wrong, Unless you burn the gun with the criminals still holding it.
    These buy outs do nothing to decrease crime, it's just a feel good grimick for people who don't know any better.
    This is just my opinion, I'm not judging anyone that would cash a gun in.
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  • Captplaid
    quote:Originally posted by Cutiegirlracing
    I would never turn a gun in. I don't care if it's cheap crap or not. Any gun that is destroyed simply because it is a gun is wrong, Unless you burn the gun with the criminals still holding it.
    These buy outs do nothing to decrease crime, it's just a feel good grimick for people who don't know any better.
    This is just my opinion, I'm not judging anyone that would cash a gun in.



    Christmas is the feel good time of year.[:D]
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  • spryor
    Don't believe I have anything I'd take only $50. for.[:0]
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  • tomahawk
    i got enough parts that i could put 4 together, but they wouldn,t bee safe, does that matter to make them from junk[?][:D]
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  • jtmarine0831
    quote:Originally posted by Cutiegirlracing
    I would never turn a gun in. I don't care if it's cheap crap or not. Any gun that is destroyed simply because it is a gun is wrong, Unless you burn the gun with the criminals still holding it.
    These buy outs do nothing to decrease crime, it's just a feel good grimick for people who don't know any better.
    This is just my opinion, I'm not judging anyone that would cash a gun in.



    I totally agree with you here! If anything they promote crime.

    For instance, some crackhead needs a rock, "OH they are Buying guns for fifty dollars, I can get some crack for that, better go steal me some guns!"

    More crime!

    Another instance, person has firearm of historic and monetary value, "I don't have any use for this junk, it's old and I don't know what it is, Heck I can get $50 for it!"

    Definately a crime! Well to me anyway![:D]
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  • Hunter Mag
    I wonder if they have a hidden camera to record those who come in for arrest at a later date?
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  • PATBUZZARD
    I dunno. I knew a buddy who bought some guns that had been in a house fire. The guns were unsafe to ever use again. He traded them in and took the $200 or so he got from the trade in and went back to the gun store and bought a new 10-22 for his kid.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    i don't agree with it in general, and agree with some points given here, but there is no way we can do much against this "do good deed" {use the term very loosely}, but as pro second amendment followers we can take advantage of this buy giving them our junk


    i wouldn't try to buy anything there, it is a "no questions asked" type deal, and you would be asking questions, and may get in trouble
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  • Hunter Mag
    quote:Adkins said that if police find some weapons have been stolen, they will be returned to their owners. Weapons that have been used in crimes will be held for court proceedings, and the rest will be destroyed, possibly melted down for display in the community.

    I don't think they'd be interested in selling the guns. They want to get them off the street.
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  • River Rat
    This is utopian BS. It promotes gun theft, so they can be turned in for cash. "No questions asked." Horse manure! It also promotes crime in the streets and home break-ins, because more of the little folk are unarmed.
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  • FWAddit
    Cutiegirlracing says: "These buy outs do nothing to decrease crime, it's just a feel good gimmick for people who don't know any better."

    Exactly. And the ironic thing is, the people who advocate melting down guns are the very same ones who express the greatest horror over burning books. They are both the same gimmick applied to different kinds of object.
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  • buschmaster
    just got back from it. they planned it right on the nose, just before 5:00 they said they were at the end of the $20,000. I was standing right in front of the table when they got to the last 50$ bill. they announced that they were going to do another $10,000 worth, but instead of cash they give you a voucher to turn in on tuesday, good for cash.

    the problem was, they were so s-l-o-w, you had to wait in line for TWO AND A HALF HOURS to get it. I had been waiting in line for 1-1/2 hours, (3:30 to 5:00) was in front of the table but the line still wrapped around that room before you get to hand over your gun. that would take another hour. I couldn't take it any more. I just left.

    I'd say 1/3 of the guns I saw were old .22 rifles, 1/3 were beat up old shotguns, a lot of them were rusted all to hell and/or had the stock broken and duct taped back together, and 1/3 were old junky handguns, usually revolvers.

    out of all the guns, I'd say about half were worth 50-100$, half were worth maybe 5-10$. so, maybe on average, 50$ each resale value.

    I saw into the back room where they were piling up the guns, they were taking a picture of an old rusted-to-hell MP-38, holding it over a pile of similar junk. we'll see what they got to say in the news tomorrow.
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  • buschmaster
    and, out of all the people in line, more than 1/3 less than 1/2 were WOMEN.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    so what did you sell?

    how many baggy pants vs. crackers where there
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  • buschmaster
    I took ye olde squirrel gun, but didn't make it to the end of the line. didn't want to stand there another hour.

    most everybody was black, same for all the cops, who were courteous and professional. there were some thugs, few were the baggy pants type. seems like they all came from that part of town, and they were surprisingly civil folks.
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  • Wagion
    Could you imagine what would happen if anyone of us put an ad in the paper "$50 for any gun no question ask!" You could be sure it would hit the fan.


    But really what if you put an ad in the paper in a town where they do these "$25 for any rifle or shotgun" Then rolled in on gun turn in day with a truck full of guns.

    Has anyone ever heard of a gun collector going to one of these and walking up and down the line and looking and maybe buying guns off people...Could you get in trouble? For what buying a gun most places it is totally legal to buy a long gun off anyone.

    Hmmmm?

    So if they gave out $30,000 that would mean they took in 600 guns is that really such a great way to spend this money. I know I am preaching to the choir here but how many gun safety and hunter ed classes could you run for that many people I would think at least 600 people.
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  • 1911a1-fan
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    I took ye olde squirrel gun, but didn't make it to the end of the line. didn't want to stand there another hour.

    most everybody was black, same for all the cops, who were courteous and professional. there were some thugs, few were the baggy pants type. seems like they all came from that part of town, and they were surprisingly civil folks.


    having guns in your hand tends to do that
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  • buschmaster
    true, unloaded or not. plus there were cops all around. but on the other hand, there wasn't much else to do but talk, and standing there for 1-1/2 hours I heard a lot of people yakking. they were respectable people. the thugs that weren't saying anything, I don't know about...
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  • Hunter Mag
    quote:Originally posted by 1911a1fan
    quote:Originally posted by buschmaster
    I took ye olde squirrel gun, but didn't make it to the end of the line. didn't want to stand there another hour.

    most everybody was black, same for all the cops, who were courteous and professional. there were some thugs, few were the baggy pants type. seems like they all came from that part of town, and they were surprisingly civil folks.


    having guns in your hand tends to do that

    Then off to the crack house they went with the $$$
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  • 1911a1-fan
    you know i have made several claims here, and get scoffed at, that baggy pants are responsible for gun control, and at least 90% of the shootings in America, it dawned on me how many gun buy back programs are held in white neighborhoods?, and if their claim for the programs is to get guns off the streets to prevent violent crimes isn't that an admission, one of the selling points is "no questions asked" because most of the guns are stolen, and/or been used in a crime {i can't think of any crime that utilizes a gun that isn't violent}
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  • spryor
    Would be a good way to find out where the crack houses were.[;)]
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  • Hunter Mag
    quote:Originally posted by spryor
    Would be a good way to find out where the crack houses were.[;)]

    [:D][:D][:D]
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  • tr fox
    In St. Louis, or KC for that matter, they should try a stolen car buy-back. Man, a certain ethnic group in both cities would come out in droves with cars to sell/return.
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  • Cutiegirlracing
    With the way the buy-back is ran here. It would be very easy for someone who had a bunch of guns to report them stolen. Then have someone take the guns to the buy-back and collect the money. Then the guns would be returned to them so they would have the money and their guns back.
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