Posted on 12/15/2004 8:14:35 AM PST by looscnnn
Ping!
Who's up for standing outside and offering $75 - 125 to people for their for nice, legal firearms?
Someone should be there to appraise the firearms, so people don't sell a valuable collector's item for $50.
Moron alert.
We protested the local gun "buyback" program here in Indiana a few yars ago. I remember an old lady bringing in her late husbands single shot rifle that hadnt ben used in some years. Is that what they menat by making it safer by taking guns off the street. We made the nightly news, but the real story was some thugs who masked their face when they dropped off a pistol. It was probably a murder weapon that was to be destroyed in the next few days. All done no questions asked and a reward for it too.
I wish they would do that where I live, I would go to walmart and buy a bunch of pellet guns and then unload them at the buy-back.
Columbia MO or Columbia SC?
I have said a number of times that we should create an org (non-profit?) and liberate guns from those that don't want them around. Individuals in the group will have the chance to buy the guns and they will be added to their collection, those that the individuals don't want may be bought with the groups money and sold to dealers for parts or if the serials have been removed or the dealers don't want them, they could be turned over to the police.
>> When you take guns off the streets you save lives, City Councilman E.W. Cromartiesaid <<
Oh yea. Disarming law-abiding citizens worked really well in Washington DC didn't it?
E.W. Cromartie is a moron. Like all gun grabbers, facts mean nothing. Hope the folks there can get rid of this idiot before the crime rate there soars.
SC.
COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA..
Now, it makes sense..
Wasn't sure if it was the country or the city, and which city..
I'm in MO, and we also have a "Columbia"..
I have a couple of .25's I'd like to unload for $50
***I remember an old lady bringing in her late husbands single shot rifle that hadnt ben used in some years.***
I remember reading of an elderly woman bringing her late husband's guns to a buy back. The firearms were an almost new Colt 1911 and an almost new Springfield 1903 rifle he had purchased just after the first world war in 1918.
The cop on duty suggested she take to them to a gun dealer for a quote on them as they were true collectors firearms.
The cop was later repremanded by his superiors for this action.
Of course he was, you can't get them "off the street" if they are taken to a dealer.
Unfortunately, the reason the police keep doing things like this is that there are people that don't want guns in their homes (husband dies, etc.). Now if there was competition with the police, such as an org (non-profit?) that buys the guns from the people, and the people used the org instead of the police the police would stop. The org would comprise of pro-gun individuals that pay for the guns of their choice from the selection brought to "buy back" (hate that term, the guns were not sold buy the police or others doing the buying)/liberation sale/adoption. Need to come up with a catchy term to replace "buy back".
sell a crappy broken gun for 100 bucks, put 75 bucks with it and get a really nice Ruger 10-22, an SKS or a plain vanilla mossberg home defense shotgun..
What a plan...eh?
There's always someone there to advise on probate matters. There's more stuff to get rid of than guns. I've never noticed folks not knowing they can sell these things. I've also never known a gun shop to turn fair deals down, or not send them to some interested person.
Normally these media events collect a lot of crap. Stuff that has no market value. Some have even collected crap to make a small profit from these events. The event holders have taken note of that. The money spent is for advertising. It comes out of their propaganda budget.
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