Gun Buy Back

[thomas89]

Some one should've told him to tune the foreend screw...

SOMEBODY would be getting tuned up if I found out they dropped that rifle off for sure!

 

[Hammsolo]

If I told you that all the guns from this gun buy back were being made into garden tools, would it make you feel better?

Hard NO

 

[Hammsolo]

Gun buybacks are stupid. mtmuley

I really think it depends on the location and gun. In life so often it’s not what we do, but how we do it.

Those weapons should be assessed by actual experts and their future should be set.

I’d line up at a firearm auction to buy that #1. The rifle would be owned by a safe mediocre hunter, and the funds could go to mental health care for youth in Oakland.

 

[antelopedundee]

DUDE, come ON! Can I buy from the buyback??

They should have an auction buyback with the Guvmint agencies bidding against individuals for the items.

 

[VikingsGuy]

I really think it depends on the location and gun. In life so often it’s not what we do, but how we do it.

Those weapons should be assessed by actual experts and their future should be set.

I’d line up at a firearm auction to buy that #1. The rifle would be owned by a safe mediocre hunter, and the funds could go to mental health care for youth in Oakland.

Gun buy backs, other than handguns in the inner city, are all merely performative. The true believers need to know these evil weapons are destroyed for full cathartic performative glow.

 

[ImBillT]

I’m more concerned with the VZ-24. Ruger sucks.

 

[ImBillT]

If that's a g98 beside, it who gives a fiddlers fart about the no. 1

Straight bolt best I could tell, so probably VZ-24.

 

[Hammsolo]

If that's a g98 beside, it who gives a fiddlers fart about the no. 1

How much is a fiddlers fart worth? Does it depend on the fiddler?

 

[CowboyLeroy]

How much is a fiddlers fart worth? Does it depend on the fiddler?

Yes but even the most highly valued fiddlers fart isn't worth all that much.

 

[CowboyLeroy]

Straight bolt best I could tell, so probably VZ-24.

G98 has a straight bolt

Edit: if you look up towards the muzzle you can see that little stud coming down? I'm not sure what it is but I did some comparisons and a vz doesn't have it, but the g98 does. Which makes me want to cry real, actual tears.

 

[choc dogs]

Some of those red pads look a lot like the pads on some of my pre64 m70s. And is that pump gun a model 12?

Somebody turned in papaws guns.

 

[ImBillT]

G98 has a straight bolt

Edit: if you look up towards the muzzle you can see that little stud coming down? I'm not sure what it is but I did some comparisons and a vz doesn't have it, but the g98 does. Which makes me want to cry real, actual tears.

Turns out you’re correct on the bolt handle. I assumed it would be bent like the m98. Also, it looks like a g98 sight also.

 

[VikingsGuy]

Turns out you’re correct on the bolt handle. I assumed it would be bent like the m98. Also, it looks like a g98 sight also.

At least the g98 was a "weapon of war" 100 years ago. Nine out of 11 are small/no magazine hunting firearms. Good job do gooders handing out money to harmless folks cleaning out their closets. smh

 

[thomas89]

Some nice ones in this pile, too!

ETA, according to their post, 131 guns were surrendered, and over $10,000 in gift cards were given.

Total crime reduced: 0%…cost to the tax payer, $10,000+ … crappy gardening tools gained, too many.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the garden tools made were used in the commission of a crime? Probably more likely than ever being held up by that lever action there.

 

[nhenry]

Some nice ones in this pile, too!

Whoever gave up that 39a really oughta have a talking to.

And there's a dragunov in that pile too.

 

[ImBillT]

Some nice ones in this pile, too!

ETA, according to their post, 131 guns were surrendered, and over $10,000 in gift cards were given.

Total crime reduced: 0%…cost to the tax payer, $10,000+ … crappy gardening tools gained, too many.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if the garden tools made were used in the commission of a crime? Probably more likely than ever being held up by that lever action there.

That picture is WAAAAAAAY worse.

 

[ImBillT]

At least the g98 was a "weapon of war" 100 years ago. Nine out of 11 are small/no magazine hunting firearms. Good job do gooders handing out money to harmless folks cleaning out their closets. smh

The “weapon of war” issue only matters to the emotionally wishy washy.

 

[VikingsGuy]

The “weapon of war” issue only matters to the emotionally wishy washy.

For clarity's sake, I am making fun of the whole darn thing.

 

[ImBillT]

It’s sad that I don’t see a pile of hi-points, Mossbergs and home made shotguns. Must not have been too many resourceful folks aware of the buy back.

 

[OntarioHunter]

Gun buybacks are stupid. mtmuley

Not always. I have a bunch of junk from my wife's grandad that was left at my house. Been waiting for a buy back to make a couple of bucks off that junk. Marlin bolt action 12 gauge with homemade clip, an old JC Higgins pump shotgun with a chunk of pipe brazed on the end where the choke blew off, a WWI Enfield that's been totally butchered, single shot .22 Ross that looks like it was rescued from the Titanic ... a few years ago.