Gun Buy-Back Debacle
- A recent gun buyback event in Oregon, aimed at curbing the number of weapons on the street, turned into a planned profit making opportunity for a group of firearms enthusiasts.
The Jan. 17 event was co-sponsored by Central Coast Ceasefire Oregon and the Newport Police Department, who offered gift cards to superstore Fred Meyer in return for guns, no questions asked. A sliding scale meant assault rifles fetched $175 gift cards each, and high capacity magazines were worth $25 credits at the store, which ironically sells firearms.
Second Amendment supporters took to OpenCarry.org’s forum to spread the word about the event, and to plan out their attendance to make maximum profit.
“A $25 gift card for "high capacity magazines - like the ones you can buy for $8?” questioned one forum member.
Some other folks got pretty nice weapons at a steep discount by intercepting folks headed into the event and offering them more than the CeaseFire gift cards. And the usual rusted-out "couldn't fire a bullet if you used it as a hammer" types netted cards to be used to buy more modern arms.
Labels: gun issues
posted by SCC at 12:31 AM
20 Comments:
Good to hear that legal firearms owners are helping people find a new home for their guns.
Aren't liberal nut-fruit, nanny statist gun snatchers so darn adorable when their agenda kinetically self-disassembles in their cute little faces?
>KA-BLOOEY!<
"They nothin' if'n they ain't funny!"
May they be left to their very own devices when it's time for boots, fists, blades, bullets and all manner of other unpleasantness...
This wasn't a debacle, it sounds like a success. The only problem was that some good guns made it to the buy-back, where they will be destroyed. They should be recycled to a responsible gun owner. Think GREEN!
Actually that is the way these buyouts should work. There have been rare and valuable guns turned in at these events, just to be crushed into scrap. Why destroy a perfectly good gun or magazine. $25 for an $8 mag? Sure, I have a bunch of old ones I will turn in at that price. Anti-gun people are so stupid.
Same old same old.
That's some good old fashioned ingenuity at work there.
It's the American way. Free enterprise. The weak get screwed.
Don't fuck with this program! Socialists love it because it makes their dead brains feel good, and I love it because I can make money to upgrade my firearms collection. Let this be.
Isn't this is the way these things usually go...
Gun buybacks are an absolute joke. Chicago gave away gift cards to people from Kentucky with rusted out old handguns. How did that make any sense?
Gun buybacks are waste of taxpayer money.
Why wont liberals just give up and accept guns are a part of American culture??
If liberals want to live in gun free lands then move to Europe !!
See ya!
Libtards and gun-grabbers just think everyone is as stupid as they are.
Off topic
Obama's Free College isn't free, its a plan to rob the Middle class. Cleverly disguised as "free", he knows the graduation rate from community college is less than 25%, which then allows him to tax anyone who has saved for college using a 529 plan at the top rate when they cash it in, regardless of how much you earn.
http://armstrongeconomics.com/2015/01/24/obamas-slick-lie-to-raise-taxes-on-middle-class/
Government is using every means possible to strip the middle class of their chance to save and prosper.
Let's not over think this after the fact....that should have been done before the event offers!
"Chicago gave away gift cards to people from Kentucky with rusted out old handguns. How did that make any sense?"
1/24/2015 09:09:00 AM
Buddy tells me that he knew some people down that way who had a photo of Mayor Daley up over the fireplace. "He's providin' extra cash we can use to keep the truck runnin' and shoes on the kids and so forth, and we are surely grateful to that man."
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Doesn't Illinois law require that buyers and sellers have valid FOIDs, verified on the ISP website, and issued a transaction number, in order to legally transfer firearms? Are these transaction included in "illegal gun sales" stats?
Doesn't Illinois law require that buyers and sellers have valid FOIDs, verified on the ISP website, and issued a transaction number, in order to legally transfer firearms? Are these transaction included in "illegal gun sales" stats?
Doesn't Illinois law require that buyers and sellers have valid FOIDs, verified on the ISP website, and issued a transaction number, in order to legally transfer firearms? Are these transaction included in "illegal gun sales" stats?
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There is that newer County ordinance Dart had put into place that requires within 48 hours, the buying, selling, loos, theft or any other type transfer of firearm, that the Sheriff be notified of such occurrence and the proper form to accomplish this ridiculous feat can be found on the Cook Co Sheriff website...
First off, the whole concept of a "buy back" implies that someone owned something to begin with, sold it to you, and now wants to buy it back.
In this case - the Government that WE, The People constituted did not sell us a damn thing. Grant us a damn thing, or do anything to claim the right to "buy back" a firearm from any of us.
So Fuck them and that weak attempt at indoctrination that is called "gun buybacks".
Second of all: The line of people that show up with these firearms are all essentially breaking many firearms laws. No concealed carry, but under the coat and loaded. No FOID. Loaded shotguns over the shoulder and pointing right at the person behind them. Loaded rifles... They bring the firearms into zones where they're flat out illegal.
The whole thing is insane.
Phoenix did away with their buy back program after the state passed a law requiring those weapons be sold to gun dealers and not be destroyed.
Sounds nice. Just pray the weapon you bought doesn't have a body on it. You'll have a lot of 'splaining to do.
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