I'm Setting up a Booth, Who's with me?

[dixondw]

Do you think a person could set up a table outside these Buyback places and make offers to the gun sellers?

Sort of like that guy who has a box on his head marked "Free Mammograms".


New York Continues Weapon Buy Back Program

October 27, 2008 5:46 a.m. EST

AHN Staff
New York, NY (AHN) - In an effort to rid New York neighborhoods and streets of weapons, the Manhattan district attorney's office, local police, and local churches banded together to collect hundreds of firearms in exchange for cash cards.

By late Saturday, five churches in Harlem collected over 500 rifles, handguns and shotguns. Two weeks ago, churches in Brooklyn gathered over 400 firearms.

A firearm is equivalent to a $200 bank card, while BB guns and air pistols can be turned in for a $20 bank card.

To date, about 5,000 guns have been collected in New York since the buyback program started six years ago. The city has $100,000 remaining to fund the program.

[steel609]

A firearm is equivalent to a $200 bank card

I bet those are some awesome guns they are getting for $200.

You guys know that the ones they are turning in for a $200 card, are guns that either won't shoot, or a crap to begin with. I bet they are making a HUGE difference. :rolleyes:

[snide]

Man I wish there were a program like that around me...LOL

I would love to take that ol Marlin Model 60 .22 cal, that I gave 50 bucks for turn it in for 200 and buy a CD Youth 20 Gauge!

Now that's a great idea!:D

[steel609]

Good idea Snide!

I would buy all the Jennings I could find for about $50, and resell them to buy a few AR's. :D

[dixondw]

I bet those are some awesome guns they are getting for $200.

You guys know that the ones they are turning in for a $200 card, are guns that either won't shoot, or a crap to begin with. I bet they are making a HUGE difference. :rolleyes:

You're probably right in most cases, but check this out:

Abbeville Police Gun Buy Back Program


Abbeville Police Officers put down their hand cuffs and radar guns for a while Friday.

They used a heavy duty saw to chop up weapons that the community turned in during October's weapon buy-back program.

They were all guns that were taken in from families who were afriad that they were going to be stolen and now they won't. People brought in weapons of all kinds, handguns, rifles, and double barreled shotguns. Some were worth hundreds of dollars.

But there was one priceless weapon that had to be spared.

An old japanese WWII rifle was of enough interest that two men drove up from Houma from a museum and said "we'd like it."A Louisiana Soldier picked up the rifle as a war trophy off Iwo Jima. It's on it's way to the national wwii museum. The rest of the weapons have a different fate.

The Officers Choped up the guns, and then they dumped the parts into a bucket. Later they filled up the bucket with cement and sent it to the Parish Dump. Now the guns won't get into the wrong hands.

The people who turned in the guns got up to one hundred dollars per weapon. They were paid with money seized in drug busts and arrests.

This was abbeville PD's first gun buy back. Another one is planned for january.

[McQ68]

I bet those are some awesome guns they are getting for $200. are guns that either won't shoot, or a crap to begin with.
Yes I've read articles that basically said the same thing. Junk, non firing, worthless and believe it or not, some guns that were used in crimes-if they hadn't already been thrown in the river. Yeah the crime rate in NY city is plummenting just because of that program. :rolleyes: But, it looks good on the front page of the newspaper with the liberals standing there.

[partsman]

you are going to need a ffl and one heck of a lawyer cause i can promise you bloomberg will be on you fast ........

[Charles Daly]

I would go to the local Gander Mountain or Cabelas and buy all the Remington or Rossi single shot shotguns for $79.00, brand new. Drive them to the buyback and make $121 on every gun!

Idiots....

[Gramps]

I would go to the local Gander Mountain or Cabelas and buy all the Remington or Rossi single shot shotguns for $79.00, brand new. Drive them to the buyback and make $121 on every gun!

Idiots....

Sounds like a good stimulation of the local economy. Something their blinders never let them see. ;)

Isn't that a direct purchase of a firearm? Shouldn't they have a business license and all the proper FFL license that go along with this? As the private sector is to fallow "Laws set forth"?
Their job is to "ENFORCE" the LAW, not be "ABOVE IT".

[dixondw]

You guys are right, most of it is probably $40 junk. And yes the cities that do these programs are pissing into the wind.

My attempt at humor is that there is always those out there that have no clue what they're holding onto.

I knew an @sshole college professor back in the '80s whose uncle left him his gun collection in the will -why he chose to leave it to his nephew -who was against guns, is beyond me.

The Prof contacted a local gun store owner to come appraise the collection. The gun store owner bought the entire collection for $16,000. I later heard the Prof tell stories of the ivory-handled six shooters, WWII German Lugers, 1900's Winchester rifles, etc. that were in this collection.

He had no clue what he was holding onto, and his contempt for guns was so great that it was beneath him to do some research into the history and actual worth of each firearm.

You better believe that if someone wills me a collection of Barbie Dolls that ol' Dave will do his homework before parting with them.

[McQ68]

You better believe that if someone wills me a collection of Barbie Dolls that ol' Dave will do his homework before parting with them.
I'm not giving my Barbie Doll collection to anyone when I go, I'm taking them with me.;) And in NYC they would probably try to tell you there is a new law that you can't buy more than one gun a month-which will probably become a reality very soon.

[steel609]

I'm not giving my Barbie Doll collection to anyone when I go, I'm taking them with me.;)


Oh, I was going to so say that same thing about you, but I thought, no, I won't do it today. :D

[McQ68]

I'm not giving my Barbie Doll collection to anyone when I go, I'm taking them with me.;) And in NYC they would probably try to tell you there is a new law that you can't buy more than one gun a month-which will probably become a reality very soon.
Because I knew that Steel would want first choice.:D

[M1A2_Tanker]

I would go to the local Gander Mountain or Cabelas and buy all the Remington or Rossi single shot shotguns for $79.00, brand new. Drive them to the buyback and make $121 on every gun!

Idiots....


Make money and get crappy guns "off the streets". SOLD anyone wanna carpool?:D