I Attended A Police "Gun Turn-In" Today, And Feel Like Crying

Net Junkie, Next time you hear of one let me know. We can make some signs and at least get those coming to think before tossing a good shooter onto the rubbish pile. I live about 40 miles East of you just off 74. Hope you can make it to our gathering in April.

Did anyone notice that this was sponsored by the NAACP? I find this incredibly racist. I won't repost it all here because I did a post at the GA forums. (yes getting involved here inspired me to finally get forums going on GA in case you were wondering) This is an image that I captured from the bottom of the flyer.


They are playing on the ignorance of people and instead of educating them as to what types of transfers are legal between individuals, and how to research stolen guns in Florida, they just say hey we are the NAACP and you can trust us if you are a person of color, and we have set up a "no questions asked" program to get that nasty assumingly illegal gun out of your hands.

I don't think law abiding Americans, no matter what their race, creed, religion, whatever, should be assumed to own guns illegally, or have any use for a "no questions asked buy back."

If I was a law abiding black man who took a gun in trade for work I did on someone's car I would be pretty pissed at the NAACP when I found out that I obtained that non-stolen firearm legally, and the NAACP told me to turn it into the cops for a $50 gift certificate.

I won't go into more. If you want to read the full post you can. But I would like to see a response here as well.

How can it be a "buy-back" when the particular law enforcement organization did not "buy" them in the first place?

Just asking....

Why not just set up a stand near the cops and offer a higher price?

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Most people don't have the cash laying around to offer higher prices.

That said, what you could do is find an FFL willing to set up, look up values on the guns out of the Blue Book, pass out copies of his consignment agreement if people wanted to take the gun to his shop instead, etc. At least that way people would have a better idea of what the gun is really worth.

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You can expect to be illegally harassed by the police if you do that. And maybe arrested for loitering or some made-up zoning ordinance violation (like conducting business at an address other than what's printed on your FFL)

Perhaps get an FFL'd dealer in the area to run an ad in the local paper offering to buy guns from the public ie;"before giving your property to the police,let us make an offer" on the day of the buy back. You and some of your friends could be on hand to buy from the dealer. The owner can legally dispose of their unwanted guns,the dealer makes a few bucks and the guns find an appreciative owner. Best of all,the anti's look silly(er).

A friend was more than a little upset when he arrived at his mother's Florida home for his step fathers funeral just as a cop was leaving with a box. On the advice of a neighbor she had asked police to remove her recently deceased husband's 357 Python. It was less than a year old and had only ever fired 6 shots. What a waste. Two cops here on the firearms department were busted for selling guns that were supposed to have been destroyed.

I have a friend that runs ads in the local papers of several towns. He offers to by unwanted guns and reminds people that they will get nothing if they turn them in to police. Most are from widows and people that moved from rural areas into the city. He gets some old junk and also great deals. He has picked up some expensive trap and skeet guns for $100

Can you stand on the edge of the property line with a sign that says "I will pay more for your guns"? Maybe even take out an ad in the local paper.

Around here we have Estate Auction sales, where the old family heirlooms at least get bid up a bit higher than the pittance these anti-gun jurisdictions give a widow for their husband's old duck gun or night table .38.

Can you stand on the edge of the property line with a sign that says "I will pay more for your guns"?

The purpose of these gun "buy backs" is to take the evil guns "off the streets" where they would be committing stick-ups and drive-bys, so no, if you try to offer a widow $400 for her departed husband's 1897 Winchester pump, you would probably get run off by the authorities.

I agree Karl. Modern day book burning in progress. Bring out your witches/books/firearms, etc. This is totally shameful and has nothing to do with "making our streets safer." What it does do is get rid of evidence from possible crimes.

Not to thread hijack but at the Texas Tower (an earlier post), it was two officers and one civilian - not one officer and two civilians.

About divorce - I've picked up two very nice revolvers from a have to sell on consignment sale at the local gun store. Sad but I'm smiling (not that I found divorce such a fun thing).

I wish they would have those around here. I'd put on a suit and tie, go down in the morning, and selectively offer folks $100 cash for each gun! That'd beat the heck out of the gun show prices I see locally.

We really should demand that the collected guns are resold for profit, it's our money, not the local PD. With all the spending government is doing it would be nice to recoup a little cash once in a while.
Now on the other hand, I like the idea of getting 100 bucks for a 50 dollar gun. Here in California the registration fees are more than the guns worth in some cases. I don't like the idea of government spending money collecting firearms but if someone really doesn't want a gun and they feel better not having it, I'm OK with that. I just don't want to waste money doing it. Does that make sense?

Thanx, Russ

Maybe I'm the only one confused about this....is it a voluntary turn-in or is it mandatory? If it's voluntary there's no way on earth I'd give up my guns like that. And if it was mandatory, I'd start looking at other places to live.

Nick5182 said:

Maybe I'm the only one confused about this....is it a voluntary turn-in or is it mandatory? If it's voluntary there's no way on earth I'd give up my guns like that. And if it was mandatory, I'd start looking at other places to live.

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Thanks SG, now it seems really ridiculous to me.

I've never been to one but they talk like what goes to them are people who have no idea the value of the guns they have, people who are dumping junk or criminals getting rid of dirty guns.

The concept of turning in your guns is much more than simply selling a gun to the government. Those folks have given up. The act of giving the gun away is an admission that they can't defend themselves and look to the government to do that for them. That's why we call them SHEEPLE!

FLASH

I am sad over the good guns destroyed in Phx this way. Thanks to my daughters mil, i'm the proud owner of a rem #700 30-06. No man in the house and had no need for it. It was headed that direction. I had just borrowed a 7mm for my first elk hunt when it fell in my lap. I love my little girl Bob

I am so happy I live where I do. First, no one would even think of turning in their guns. If they didn't want one they had, they'd sell it or give it away. Also; I recently bought some confiscated guns. About 2-3 times a year the police, sheriff, and highway patrol collect up all the guns they've confiscated from people who weren't allowed to have them; they clear them in the system; and then they sell them. They do a bid process with FFL licensed people. One of my local gun shops won the last bid for about 150 guns. They then sell the guns in their shops. I've bought a couple at some really good prices.

This isn't uncommon here. We've even had some that were auctioned off that were confiscated in cases dealing with taxes and other crimes where the person couldn't pay part of their punishment, so the state confiscated such things as their cars, guns, etc... The police take the money they make selling the guns and use it towards DARE programs and similar.

The government is robbing these people blind. Why would someone just hand over their guns? It makes no sense, and for a pultry $50 coupon? How stupid can a person be?

It isn't stupidity so much as it's ignorance and fear. A lot of older people(and young as well) watch crime shows on tv. Most of these shows are set in NYC, Chicago and Los Angeles,etc. Cities that have traconian gun laws with harsh penalties for violations. When these uninformed folks see someone arrested for merely possessing a firearm they don't seee it as a regional thing and assume it is illegal everywhere. So for fear of being caught with an "illegal" firearm they get rid of it. This is just one of a miriad of scenarios likely for why people would just give away their guns.

throdgrain said:

You think you got it bad? Here in England they try to have "Knife Amnesty" days

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Yeah, I see they are attempting to make all the "Pints" out of plastic; to keep you from hurting yourselves...oh my gosh! Whats next...a ban on knives and forks; spoons only?

Sporks!