LA Area Buyback Sat. 3/4/23 Hauls In Many Nice Old Treasures

[Zappa]

Forget the story headline, shootings like this happen daily there in Newsoms Utopia.
The real tragedy here is the way all these nice old collectors pieces are unceremoniously dumped into a bucket and headed for destruction.

LA shooting that injured five happened near gun buyback event: ‘Tragically ironic’

Five people were injured in a shooting at a Los Angeles beach Saturday night mere miles from where local officials held a gun buyback event earlier that day.

nypost.com

Yeah, there's some junk in there, but I see lots of nice old S&W and Colt revolvers, some Ruger and H&R .22 pistols, a parkerized 1911 which may be a former military issue piece, as well as a Luger and some Glocks.

 

[Palladin]

Not one gangbanger's piece

 

[Rob Boudrie]

I wonder if that was a specially staged box of "good stuff" and not a random selection of what was surrendered. Perhaps it was staged to manipulate opinion of the buyback, or that is the bucket that will disappear into someone's private collection.

The trigger guard of the 1911 attachment to the frame looks like and old SVI/STI plastic grit, and the trigger is the two part SVI design, though I don't recognize the sides of the grip. The checkering of the plastic frontstrap is consitent with the original SVI/SPI grip.

 

[jkelly1229]

Not one gangbanger's piece

That 2011 looks like a street special

 

[jimy]

Sad!!

 

[sieveboy]

I expanded it and scanned starting lower left. I cried when I saw the grips on the old Colt right and then gagged when I saw the Luger

 

[robjax]

No matter what they get in terms of volume I’m sure that pales in comparison to what’s still out there and will remain out there.

Good headline event that pertains to the gun buyback. But not doing anything in terms of reducing or eliminating the criminal element.

Sad that people will gladly forfeit there rights for a gift card and you can bet that the true gang bangers are not surrendering whatever hardware they currently possess.

 

[Picton]

That thing at six o'clock... is that a starter's pistol?

 

[Mountain]

Holy F- that Luger...

And is that Model 29? Looks like a 686 in there too.

 

[paul73]

Not one gangbanger's piece

because no one intends to disarm gangbangers, they are not the force the government is concerned with. it is you and me they cannot afford to tolerate.

 

[CRSIII]

Tell me that’s not a Peacemaker!

 

[Mtn_Guy]

RIP

 

[Gator9329]

All "widow" guns.
Grandma got left the cigar box with a colt and some bullets along with gramps war ribbons.
Has no idea what to do with em or what they are really worth.

 

[steven grammont]

That thing at six o'clock... is that a starter's pistol?

That is a weird shaped frame , its like a perfect square

 

[Gator9329]

haha this one must be extra killy.
Had to be restraind

 

[Flint]

View attachment 728306haha this one must be extra killy.
Had to be restraind

First day using zip-ties, got a little excited

 

[Rob Boudrie]

That 2011 looks like a street special

The research team has informed me it looks like a relatively low quality Spanish clone with an SVI/Infinity trigger installed.

 

[Dadstoys]

Oh I'm sure some of the nicer stuff will find a new home in some P.O's safe.
How many thousand of dollars did the Grandmas get screwed out of I wonder.

 

[Rob Boudrie]

Article with that photo refers to a very recent shooting that happened the "Same day", implying the photo is contemporaneous.

But the same photo showed up in a Sept 2013 article out of Tanzania Surrender illegally owned guns, citizens directed and the Concord Monitor has that same photo claiming was from a Sept 6, 2012 in an article published in 2020 New Hampshire House passes red-flag gun bill

 

[Tartakovsky]

Gotta get those 1800s Schofield revolvers off our streets

 

[Noreaster13]

The trigger guard of the 1911 attachment to the frame looks like and old SVI/STI plastic grit, and the trigger is the two part SVI design, though I don't recognize the sides of the grip. The checkering of the plastic frontstrap is consitent with the original SVI/SPI grip.

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[Rob Boudrie]

I checked with an authoritative source- that SVI clone, Spanish I think.

 

[tuna]

I hope everyone who turned these in for a gift card gets clubbed over the head with a sock full of batteries and their gift card stolen.

 

[Hailstorm]

I think it is staged. Sure, you could get a few grandma turn ins. There is a lot of money there. How much you wanna bet. Those that are stolen. Will not be returned to the actual owner.

On a side note. If they did return them. You could have a infinity loop. Turn them in after reporting them stolen. they return it. Damn it, they got stolen again. Turned in. Then returned. And so on and so on. Better then printing guns to turn in

 

[ridleyman]

Vintage wartime Colt 1911A1 worth $2,500+, or cheap ass Auto-Ordnance?

 

[Rob Boudrie]

I think it is staged.

See post #19.