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January 22, 2008
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Hanging out in Oz, I have been removed from most of the firearm issues that are currently going on in the US. However I ran across an article on CNN's website that piqued my interest. It wasn't so much CNN's typical thinly guised journalistic -> opinion liberal slant, but the picture that is displayed at the top of the article. It is a picture of some of the firearms that were received in L.A.'s gun "buyback". People received up to $200 per gun. Take a look at that picture and tell me what you think. I know there is a Colt revolver that jumps out at me as being worth far more than $200.
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/01/29/us/handguns-and-federal-legislation/index.html
Wayne
August 28, 2009
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Damn fools for selling their iron for $200 a pop. There was another buyback program recently offering $100 a piece, and there were a couple guys buying them up for $100+ before they hit the trash bin!.
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December 4, 2011
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I wonder how many are stolen guns? What a great deal for criminals, steal someones guns collection and then sell it to the cops, no questions asked for cash, get the cops to fence it for you.
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March 2, 2008
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Maybe I posted this here once already, a recent CT buy back netted a Sturmgewehr 44. BIG money gun, unfortunately never registered as an NFA gun, it was a WW II souvenir that sat in an attic all these years.
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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August 28, 2009
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Steve CT said
Maybe I posted this here once already, a recent CT buy back netted a Sturmgewehr 44. BIG money gun, unfortunately never registered as an NFA gun, it was a WW II souvenir that sat in an attic all these years.
I read it last month.....here's the link.
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January 24, 2009
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It's a crying shame to see some of those guns in that pile.
Smiff's, Colts, Rugers, and even a cool little High Standard .22 derringer. At least I didn't spot any DW's in there, that would have been true torture.
BTW, I didn't know anyone still read/watched CNN...?
Good to hear from you, Wayne.
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December 5, 2008
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February 26, 2012
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I read the article after crying over the picture. It always amazes me that the main stream media and the anti-gun groups scream about the how we kill 6000 people per year with guns and yet we kill 20,000 to 25,000 people per year with and in motor vehicles. The thing is no one screams to restrict the ownership, size, capacity of these motor vehicles. If we were to restrict the size and speed of the average transport truck, bus and car we could save thousands of lives. If we save even one life by these restrictions it would be worth it.
Now if I could find that satire emoticon!
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
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March 2, 2008
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How about 443,000 deaths per year from cigarette usage, including secondhand smoke?
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/
10,000+ in alcohol impaired driving accidents
http://www.cdc.gov/motorvehiclesafety/impaired_driving/impaired-drv_factsheet.html
I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman "Were is the Self Help Section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
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March 27, 2009
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Looks like some were selling bb and sir soft guns! Heck I wanna do a buy back! I wonder what they did with these after the buying!! How many ended up as throw downs or sold to others! WE will never know!
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March 15, 2011
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"I know there is a Colt revolver that jumps out at me as being worth far more than $200." Yes, it's that Colt Python that looks like the bluing wore off or the stainless steel needs polishing/cleaning. Easily over $1000. Pity the Putz that Parlayed that Poor Python for a Pittance. DW41F.
February 26, 2012
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Think of this, guys, Missouri has a bill in the state senate that would require anyone who does a gun buyback to offer the guns bought to FFL's before destroying them. As the yuppies like to say "how cool is that"?
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well armed lamb contesting the vote.
February 21, 2011
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an anecdote that probably got little or no press regarding gun buybacks for a coupl of hundred$$.
At a recent one the local gun owners got wind of it & were lined up along the street in droves, offering to buy back the guns on the way to the buyback for 300 dollars. Many were sold to other gun owners legally right in front of the building holding the "official" buyback event.
A comment read elswhere on selling legal firearms at these things while not being PC is appropriate I think:
"Selling a legal $500 gun at a $200 gun buyback is like getting a vasectomy because your neighbors have too many kids living on welfare"!
Matthew Quigley on handguns:
“I said I never had much use for one. Never said
I didn't know how to use it.”
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July 2, 2011
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Sturmgewehr 44.....
Oh wait, that was the prototypical assault weapon. Bad gun! You go straight to my gun cabinet with no dinner.
To the paranoid people who check behind shower curtains for murderers:
if you find one...what's your plan?
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