Gun Buy-Back in San Jose

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The Sheriff's Office had a gun buy-back yesterday. A friend told me about just some of the guns that were turned in. Everyone get ready to cry.

1. Smith & Wesson K22, serial number K3xxx in close to unfired condition.
2. Winchester Model 1876 rifle
3. Browning A-Bolt rifle, in the box, never been fired.
4. Winchester M1 Garand in excellent condition.

These people got $100 for the guns. These people could have received a lot more if they brought them to a gun store. What were they thinking?

5. WW2 Japanese Type 92 machinegun.

This guy got $200. Okay, it probably wasn't registered, but who knows.

I have no idea what other valuable collector guns were turned in, but (get ready to cry) all these guns will be melted in a few days from now. If I was there, I would have been tempted to be handing out my card to some people telling them to contact me on Monday for a "special gun buy-back" where they would be getting $200 for certain of their rifles and handguns.
 
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I'm so sorry to hear that poor people are still getting sucked in on these "buy backs" when 'most' of them could get much more money from any gun dealer. They are just too ignorant to know what the rules are today!

What a waste..........................

I left San Jose 7 years ago after being there for 40 years. I'll never go back unless (yeah right) the politics change!!
 
'most' of them could get much more money from any gun dealer. They are just too ignorant to know what the rules are today!
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It's not ignorance, it's most of these folks have no interest in firearms. They don't want them and they DON'T want them on the streets. Sadly all of these classic firearms will be destroyed..
 
I don't want to advocate any type of theft or underhanded action, but I hope for decency's sake that at least the K22 "comes up missing" before it can be sent to the crusher.
Maybe the Browning too, but definitely the Smith.
 
Not one of those saps (nicest term i could think of) who turned in their valuable firearms have the smarts to realize that it's their own tax money going back into their pockets....in effect, they handed them over to the police state and didn't get a penny in return...pretty sneaky.
 
When people die, family members want to do "the right thing." If they are like most uninterested folks, giving it to the cops with no questions asked and $100 they didn't have, seems like it. Joe
 
They're talking about doing one of these in Phoenix. I've got a worthless, rusty old .22 rifle I might turn in, but only if the payment is in a form I can use to buy more ammo.
 
I would

jag312 said:
The Sheriff's Office had a gun buy-back yesterday. A friend told me about just some of the guns that were turned in. Everyone get ready to cry.

1. Smith & Wesson K22, serial number K3xxx in close to unfired condition.
2. Winchester Model 1876 rifle
3. Browning A-Bolt rifle, in the box, never been fired.
4. Winchester M1 Garand in excellent condition.
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I wish I'd had the chance at any of these guns.:mad:
 
In Seattle's buyback event, one guy told of an older lady in front of him carrying 4 M1 Garands. He tried to buy them off her but she wouldn't budge.

Turn them in for 4 $100 Walmart gift certificates :P
 
Hillbilly77 said:
I don't want to advocate any type of theft or underhanded action, but I hope for decency's sake that at least the K22 "comes up missing" before it can be sent to the crusher.
Maybe the Browning too, but definitely the Smith.
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I would like to see the K22 going to the Santa Clara County Crime Lab for their Firearms Reference Collection. Other than that, it is headed for the melting pot.
 
since it is kalifornia I assume the guns get scrapped? as hard up for money that the state is you would think they would at least look at a blue book and realize how much money they are trashing out.


so what would happen to a dealers if they offered a free appraisal for the guns in an advertisement next to the gun buy back ad?
 
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Aloha,

A REAL buy back would be giving them 3 to 4x the REAL Apprased Value

of the firearm instead of cheating the unknowning/uncaring public.

And then putting the good stuff into museums instead.

Remember the hoo ha that happened with a German WWI MG that Sgt

York brought back and was found in a library. Took an act of Congress

to get it dewated and museumed.
 
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