Trade a gun for a rose in SC on Valentine's Day

[Willo]

I think it's great -- if you're the type to give away a gun for $100, I don't think you're the type who should own one.

And if you 'sold' some old beater .38 that was coming apart and might have kBed if you'd pulled the trigger on a live round, then it's probably better that such a gun isn't around for kids to get into or whatever.

Just my thought. I think that while the gov't is asking people to voluntarily 'sell' their firearms, it won't be going door to door to confiscate them. In New Orleans after Katrina you didn't see the cops "asking" people to "sell" their weapons. They just took 'em.

Let's make sure our government continues to ask politely.

 

[colemanw]

think of it as a stimulus package for the firearm industry... every old gun that gets chopped will create the need for a new one...

actually it breaks my heart to think of collectible firearms being cut up or parted out... i wanna cry-

how much are guns made by the ring of fire? can you buy one for $60 and trade it in for the 100 bucks?

 

[Scorpian]

I love these gun trade in's. What a great way to make money on other people's stupidity. I buy cheap, I mean cheap $20 to $50 dollar handguns, junk guns that don't work, I don't care and then I trade them in. I live in Cleveland and they do this stupid thing once a year. I spend the year going to gun shows and flea markets, and garage sales looking for crap guns I buy any gun under a hundred then I trade them in for the gift cards. I make $80 to $10 dollars off of each gun I trade in. I then use the cards I get to buy gas and I use the gas money I would have spent to buy a new gun. I now have over 40 guns. When opportunity knocks, you got to answer the door.

 

[SaxonPig]

Morons...

 

[SCKimberFan]

I love these gun trade in's. What a great way to make money on other people's stupidity. I buy cheap, I mean cheap $20 to $50 dollar handguns, junk guns that don't work, I don't care and then I trade them in. I live in Cleveland and they do this stupid thing once a year. I spend the year going to gun shows and flea markets, and garage sales looking for crap guns I buy any gun under a hundred then I trade them in for the gift cards. I make $80 to $10 dollars off of each gun I trade in. I then use the cards I get to buy gas and I use the gas money I would have spent to buy a new gun. I now have over 40 guns. When opportunity knocks, you got to answer the door.

What a great idea. Use our tax money against them. Brilliant!

 

[walker944]

About an hour and a half later, police had collected 75 weapons.

I'll guarantee you there are at least 75 idiots in every state in the union.

 

[SaxonPig]

Usually a large number of the "guns" collected are broken old junkers, toys, BB guns, etc. Real criminals, people who pose real danger to society, don't trade their guns for flowers... or sneakers... of basketball tickets.

OK, some of them may go for the basketball tickets.

Basically, politicians and others who organize these things are morons.

But then, most politicians are morons all the time, anyway.

 

[zoom6zoom]

There's a bill currently being considered in Virginia that would require LEA's to transfer firearms collected from the public to a dealer for disposition.

 

[Grassman]

Wish I could have got to the moron first who sold the six guns for $600. I might have given him $625 and an FTD bouquet.

 

[pmeisel]

Quote:
About an hour and a half later, police had collected 75 weapons.
I'll guarantee you there are at least 75 idiots in every state in the union.

You are probably a couple or three zeros short.

 

[peacenik]

I was thinking about going out there ...

... and trying to offer some of them more money for their guns, if I saw some I liked (I live in Columbia). But I read about the setup - everybody had to have the guns in their trunks, and the police were there waiting in the parking lot, I figured that was a no-go.

I tell you, it's hard to believe that people would part with their guns in Soda City these days, if you read the crime reports. A woman was shot and killed at an ATM in forest acres a few weeks ago (I've been at that same machine a thousand times myself), and there was another spree of robberies in Northeast the last couple of weeks. There's always break-ins and 'who-shot-who?' on the local news sites.

 

[colorado_handgunner]

Another reason I am sometimes embarrassed to be from SC. The gun laws and thinking there are really strange. :banghead:

 

[Audrey]

Stupid is as stupid does. And it aint limited to South Carolina.

 

[crazy-mp]

I am going to buy 1,000 dollars worth of Wal-Mart gift cards and start my own gun buy back program. Yeah I will probably get some Junker guns, but for
every 8 or 9 there will probably be a good one, the odds may be higher.



I was only joking Mr. ATF agent, I am sorry I will never joke about firearms ownership again.