AZ:Phoenix Gun Turn in "buyback" Dates Announced for May 2013

[Dean Weingarten]

The gun turn in events for Phoenix have been given dates. They will be held on Saturdays, the 4th, 11th, and 18th of May. $100 gift cards will be given for handguns, most rifles, and shotguns. $200 will be given for semi-automatic "military style" rifles.

The turn in events will be held in the Maryvale, South Phoenix, and Sunnyslope neighborhoods. The addresses of the events have not yet been announced. It has been reported that "high capacity" magazines that are turned in will also earn a card.

No limits or qualifiers have been announced so far, but only $100,000 has been allocated. Dreams of making a killing trading in old triple K magazines for $100 each are likely misplaced.

Anyone with a 3D printer might start paying it off by using the Defense Distributed designs.

Many "buybacks" (turn in is the correct phrase, the government never owned these guns in the first place) have been attended by private buyers. Some have made very good deals. Their presence stretches turn in dollars, prevents ignorant gun owners from turning in valuable guns for a pittance, and takes valuable firearms off the street and into responsible hands that appreciate them.

One charity program in Maine resulted from cooperation between a gun rights group and a gun control group. The firearms turned in were sold to a dealer, and the money donated to the Special Olympics.

Some have likened "buybacks" that have the firearms destroyed to medieval deodand rituals.

Link to cooperative charity turn in done in Maine

Link to article with numerous links to "buybacks" with private buyers

Link to article on deodands

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http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/azphoenix-gun-turn-in-buyback-dates.html

 

[P5 Guy]

How would a gun turn in/buy back work after universal background check is the law of the land?

 

[Dean Weingarten]

They would still allow "buybacks" just no private sales.

 

[sonick808]

yeahhhhhh, it's pretty much guaranteed that those buybacks will be inundated with private parties sporting lots of cash. If my time and disposable income line up properly, I will be one of them.

 

[sonick808]

dupe, sorry

 

[Twiki357]

I'm thinking of being out there myself if I can come up with some spare cash. But, they haven't announced the locations yet, just the dates. I wonder if Phoenix will still hold them if the bill passes requiring all surrendered guns to be sold instead of being destroyed.

 

[Yo Mama]

I'm going to sound like a broken record, but it's important. Please contact the Mayor's office about the anonymous donation given to the city from the AZ for Gun Safety group. They are not a legit group, and ethics of a buyback aside we need to let the Mayor know that they are a detriment to his work.

My original post about this group:

http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=705880

 

[Outlaw Man]

Someone could make some good money if they bought up a bunch of Ring of Fire pistols for $50 a piece the week before the buyback.

In a twisted sort of way, that might actually make the streets a tiny bit safer...

I still wonder how many stolen guns make it into those buybacks, and I'm talking guns that were stolen after they announced the program.

 

[chopinbloc]

I get my Stafford loan money and my tax return soon.

We are working on a bill that would make it illegal for agencies to destroy guns from turn ins.

J&G often sells boxes of broken guns for student gunsmiths to work on for cheap. I've seen a box 'o guns go for $250 for a half dozen guns. Nothing on their site right now but who knows? It would be awesome to dump six broken roscoes on them for $600 in grocery cards, then turn around and buy several working guns for $100 each, cash.

 

[sonick808]

message left with my district senator urging support of hb2455

az folks, please let 'em know!

 

[Ryanxia]

Get them private sales!

Even if you have to setup a few blocks down the street.
Remember, "WE PAY MORE" "WE PAY CASH"

I would even mention the strategy - don't let your grandpa's cherished gun be destroyed for some politician's publicity.

 

[Al Thompson]

Wish they would do that here. I've got a couple of junkers I'd sell in a nano second for 100 bucks each.

 

[armoredman]

And if the bill on surrendered property goes through the Senate and gets signed into law, this will stop overnight - that bill requires all surrendered firearms to be sold.