A man duct taped a pipe to a piece of wood and turned it in for $100 in gift certificates from a gun buyback program that ended this last weekend in Minneapolis.
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Where is the clip? 🙂
Trolling trolling trolling… 🙂
Solid proof that there really area lot of dumb shits in MN…
Walter Mondale/Al Franken ring a bell?
In the same program somebody made off with $300 for turning in an old AR-7. That’s a break-down survival rifle, a decent thing for what it is, but used sells for under $100. It’s a .22 but its characteristics match the crap that the gun whiners use to define an “assault weapon” and that’s why he collected top dollar.
A guy could make a pretty penny by buying up old crapped out AR-7s (they were introduced in the 1950s) and turning them in for $300 a pop.
Dang, I missed the buy-back! I was going to turn in my sling shot. Well, the one with the broken rubber band, anyway.
If pipes are outlawed, only criminal plumbers will have pipe.
You’d think that if the cops were running this buyback program they wouldn’t get ripped off, unless the cops think its a useless gesture themselves.
How much can I get for my Red Ryder?
-Ralphie
on the “stock” in sharpy is written “Serial # Buybacksdontwork”
Never underestimate the depths of stupidity of libtards who are running a state.
@Uncle Al, I had one of those AR-7s but sold it years ago because it jammed about every 5th shot. I thought it would be a great survival rifle – everything fits in the stock and it floats. But I have to have something that shoots every time I pull the trigger.
I paid less than $100 for mine. Good exchange, it’s a crap gun.
Wish they would make one that works right.
Some where out there is a valuable pop tart …
If duct tape works, a heating duct would work. The caliber is too large to measure, think of the money you’d get.
Years ago I needed fast cash and I went to pawn my Glock 19.
The guy wouldn’t give me 50 bucks for it.
He also told me I would have to go through a background check to BUY MY OWN GUN BACK!
WTF?
Your government at work.
Needless to say I didn’t pawn it.
I would have taken $300 in a buyback for sure.
American ingenuity
if Americans or illegals can scam gun buy back programs what makes you think they cannot scam any of the other genius federal subsidy programs, welfare, farm subsidies, business subsidies, education subsidies.
the totality of the corruption cannot be imagined.
Way back, when this ‘buyback’ thing started knew a guy who ran a gun shop started by a returning WW2 Marine armorer. There were 5 gallon buckets of junk handguns, 55 gallon barrels of junk long guns. Gave everybody I knew a couple. $50 gift card.
Then the cops got smart and said the gun had to drop a hammer.
It was a little more time but those SNSs aren’t very complicated.
The shop was moving and you can’t just throw away a ton of guns.
Buybacks don’t work, no matter how good it makes you feel.
I used to have one of those for SHTF.
Until the tragic boating accident.
That’s what brought down Gabby Giffords.
From the article: “’I’m not fond of guns’ said the woman, who asked not to be identified for safety reasons”. Very interesting quote from a woman who turned in her gun. I think it says it all.
Police buy back program? How is it a buy back when the cops never owned the guns in the first place? They never sold the guns either.
Gristle- And I hate the term “giving back”. It’s always associated with poor persons.
I’m not taking any charity or service from a destitute person so why am I verbally beaten into ‘giving back’?
Gristle, it’s probably taxpayer dollars, so we are the ones actually buying them back.
They seem to have plenty of my tax money to piss away. My kids should have brought a whole arsenal of old airsoft that would have been more functional than that! What a joke. Makes the police look really, really stupid. Of course, that’s redundant in Minnesota.
Why can’t we get a Government buy-back program for worthless politicians? They kill more people than privately-owned handguns or assault rifles do.
With a little more work, it could be made to fire a shotgun shell. Not rocket science.
The BATFE actually has a category for it if it does fire anything, even if it’s blunderbuss style – A.O.W. You’ll need a $200 permit for it. Not kidding! 🙂
In a SHTF situation, you may see things like this start appearing and they’ll be functional in a basic way.
I don’t even have the equipment Brad does and I could go to Home Depot and have a one-shot-wonder in a matter of minutes. It’s hammer will be an actual hammer. Unattached, though, it will be.
The longevity and safeness of it will always be in question, but it will do the trick when it counts.
Gristle posted my first thought: Buy back? When did they sell it?
Another term that irks me and tips off that someone has no clue about guns: “Who issued that guy a gun?!!”.
The mindset exposed is one that assumes a central authority grants guns to the public.
“Um, the gun issuer is on vacation. No one can have one today. Sorry. Come back tomorrow and try again.” Said no one in America. Ever.
Another use for duct tape.
In Philly, we work the Buy-Back gun line outside and offer folks double or more for their good items.
The trick is to get in line with everyone else and work stealth. Otherwise, the line monitors will spot you and tell you to get lost.
Oh, take a Trader Joe’s bag with you for all your loot. It’s like red-neck Halloween. 🙂
We have the same “buy back” crap here in the Un-Constitution State of Connecticut. You are required here to have a pistol permit to carry a gun on your person even if it’s unloaded yet the police allow a person to walk into a police station and turn in a gun whether they have the proper permit or not. If I were stopped on the street with my firearm and didn’t have my permit with me, I would be arrested. Funny how that works, isn’t it?
It’s also a great way to get rid of evidence and as stated in the piece, buy backs have no effect on lowering the crime rate.
That’s hilarious. We should all do that – – multiple times.
Then take the money and buy some real guns.
Apparently, the former owner was a vault dweller.
[Fallout 4 reference placed. Now we wait…]
Wait-A-Hold-It… I gotta PVC potato gun that should qualify…
but it’s too much fun.
@Dadof4 – The BATFE goons let you off easy for the AOW stamp. It’s only five bucks, but it still takes six months or more to get it. The $200 stamp is for full auto, short barreled rifles, suppressors (why, I’ll never understand).
All research has proved that these buy back programs are completely useless, yet for political purposes the cops still waste money and promote this as an effective gun violence prevention strategy.
“… the cops still waste money …”
It ain’t their money, so they don’t GAF.
“Never give a sucker an even break …”
izlamo delenda est …