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« Oregon case re: colleges | Main | Brady Campaign grades and crime rates »

Gun buyback in Columbia SC

Posted by David Hardy · 15 February 2009 03:38 PM

Story here .

Gun buybacks are a great subsidy to gun owners. Everyone has a junker or two that's beyond repair and unsalable. You can still get $50-100 for it! When they had one here, gunnies turned out at the sites and watched as people came up, and made offers for anything worthwhile. One fellow got a Parker shotgun for $100! A gun dealer sold all his junkers to his employees, and they went around turning them in, and netting a nice profit as their bonus. I got $50 for a broken old single-barreled shotgun. We got the list of what was purchased, and I guess some of the sites were manned by people who didn't know much, because they laid out $50 each for broken Daisy BB guns.

Hat tip to reader Bruce Mills....

9 Comments | Leave a comment

CDR D | February 15, 2009 4:06 PM | Reply

"Getting guns off our streets"

Heh.

If I hear Feinstein use that tired old shibboleth again, I'll just have to puke my guts out.

I've been taking my dogs for walks on "our streets" for more years than I can remember.

I've never found a gun. No, not even once.

But, as a good citizen, I have always removed the "Feinsteins" my dogs have deposited.

Tom | February 15, 2009 8:37 PM | Reply

Doesn't matter what they take in as long as they have numbers they've got their propaganda points.

Dave Dudley | February 16, 2009 9:24 AM | Reply

...You're right, Tom. Gun control is all about, well, guns. It's not about crime, just the physical guns. And selling junk to goofy's is all about our disrespect and ridicule of guncontrol theatre and the phoniness of it. I keep 5 hulks that will never shoot in waiting. Should I get the opportunity, I'll trade 'em in and let everyone know how I fooled them and what dunces they be. I got $50 for something less dangerous than a broken toaster.

gunlover | February 16, 2009 10:12 AM | Reply

There was a "get guns off the street" exercise here in Denver awhile back. I had an old 7mm Mauser that was useless. I turned it in and got tickets to the Broncos, Nuggets, and Avalanche. I sold those for enough money to get a pistol and shotgun. I can hardly wait until they do it again, as another 2-for-1 may turn into a 6-for-3 or 8-for-4

WP Zeller | February 16, 2009 11:55 AM | Reply

In 2007, there was one of several gun buybacks in Chicago. The premium was $100 apiece. An Illinois State Rifle Association member got organized and took enough guns to the Windy City to take in something like two grand (I forget the exact number). He went from intake point to intake point "selling" a handful of clunkers at each one.
His tales of the uniformed Chicago Police officers working the intakes were humorous as well.
Enough money was taken back downstate to fund a juniors shooting program that lives on today.
Unfortunately, that was the last of the big-buck buybacks and the junker in my safe sits waiting for another.
Since then, the best they've been offering is fifty bucks. Pikers.

Broadsword | February 16, 2009 2:36 PM | Reply

Why don't they try a "Turn in a fellow criminal" Day? What would the premiums for that be...?

Broadsword | February 16, 2009 2:39 PM | Reply

On,another thing. How 'bout those wooden guns with the duct tape on them in Colorado? Would they buy them?

Tom | February 17, 2009 12:08 AM | Reply

yeah, I get that Dave. In fact I applauded the chicago effort, and there was a link to the forum discussing it.

Was just feeling cynical. I would rather see folks buying the guns off the widows and idiots for that price then seeing $ guns get trashed.

Maybe when they start pushing "fairness" our message will get out to the ignorant masses.

Jdude | February 17, 2009 11:25 AM | Reply

I have 2 junkers in the closet for the sole purpose of taking to one of these "new gun" subsidy programs.

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