Spent casing are considered ammunition right? Go to your club, collect a bunch of casings (preferably steel that can't be reloaded), turn in a few at a time. Take gift card to buy more guns or ammo
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Old, broken, worthless gun? Get $100 or $200 for it at a buyback in Cambridge on June 12! $50 for ammunition.
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AHM
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Kit gun! They're all the rage nowadays.
Mesatchornug
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Thought 1: I know it's about the symbolism, but you can always say "this card goes into the food budget, so I'll move an equal amount into the gun budget"
Thought 2: I wish I were an FFL, I would totally accept food cards as payment for product.
Thought 3: I'd rather demil a firearm and use it as a theater prop than give it to a "buyback," personally.
Thought 2: I wish I were an FFL, I would totally accept food cards as payment for product.
Thought 3: I'd rather demil a firearm and use it as a theater prop than give it to a "buyback," personally.
Lol, likely very few. If you look at most of these buyback table pics, most of the stuff on the table is JUNK. The odd colt python or whatever happens, sure, but that's
more myth than reality.
fencer
NES Member
And when something valuable does show up, it goes right into the cops vehicle.
I know a guy whose brother is a cop in a good size, affluent town, inside 128. He said you would be surprised how many time some nice little old lady calls after her husband dies, and she just wants them out of the house.
namedpipes
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I'm not advocating FOR the plan, but yes, in fact, an FFL can purchase a firearm from a non licensed person while not at his place of business. He can't SELL one away from the shop, but nothing stops him from going to other shops, estate sales, private homes or even street corners. Setting up "shop" on a street corner, sure. Problem. As a practical matter, the FFL would be harassed or even wrongly arrested, but what I said was legal.
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namedpipes
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This is actually a great answer
namedpipes
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POP TART!
You know this got me thinking, it’s too bad there’s no type of advisory or ad and flyer type campaign across the country aimed at the elderly community about this.
Those are people who actually do not understand buybacks or the folks hiding behind them and just want it gone safely or actually do need the money for food or heat, they see police officers there so to them it’s the right thing to do to get rid of it, I wouldn’t hold that against them.
But, if there was some way to alert the elderly community for cases just like that, and let them know they don’t have to wait 6mos or a year for the next buyback to only then receive 50.00, but instead we can put you in touch immediately with an authorized dealer who would be happy to assist you and most likely get you 2,3,5-10x the amount that a buyback would give you.
I wonder if that’s ever been tried. NRA/GOAL/COMM2A etc. if anyone has the resources and assets to get it done it would be them. Just thinking out loud.
Mesatchornug
NES Member
that really is a fantastic idea. my first thought, spinning out from yours, would be to reach out to those lawyers who specialize in probate, and help them partner with dealers who won't screw them out of the deal...as written it almost feels predatory, but I have to believe there's a way to do it that both is and comes across as respectful.
AHM
NES Member
Bah, use the free market!
We don't need a lobbying group.
We don't need a public interest program.
What ought to happen is FFLs with nationwide reach place ads in the AARP magazine, etc.
But AARP is a communist front organization,
so that ain't happening.
See the problem with communist front organizations?
Agree 100%. Anyone that would rip off an elderly person just fighting to survive would need a brick upside the head. Would have to be respectful and trustworthy, def not a Call Saul type of dealer.
Mesatchornug
NES Member
Right. I could see someone making a reasonable side hustle out of it too. There are plenty of similar folks specialized in any kind of collectibles. Show up with a copy of the latest blue book, take a walk through the collection with the survivor. offer a reasonable percentage of estimated value, and/or consign anything particularly special.
The hardest part would be building the relationships with the right people in the local end-of-life industry (for lack of a better term)
Friend of mine did this, years ago out in CA. He's a detective out there. Old lady calls, "found my dead husband's old gun," my buddy heads over to take possession. I guess turning in unwanted guns to the po-po is a common thing out there. He arrives to find a pristine Luger, so he takes it, then offers to write the old lady a check and give her a bill of sale. She wouldn't take more than $200.
I didn't like the ethics of that, and I still don't. But on the other hand, the old lady was going to give it away for free and would have been just as happy to get nothing. And it definitely beats a buyback.
AHM
NES Member
Now if the IRS declared that the difference between
a gun's appraised value and buy-back payment
was taxable income to the jurisdiction,
and the guns' serial numbers (if any) had to be declared on Federal forms...
(Make it as annoying as possible to run a buy-back).
a gun's appraised value and buy-back payment
was taxable income to the jurisdiction,
and the guns' serial numbers (if any) had to be declared on Federal forms...
(Make it as annoying as possible to run a buy-back).
fencer
NES Member
Well there is that company that you hear running ads on WRKO. I think its something like Cashforguns. or something like that.
They claim to offer a fair price, but they obviously have to turn a profit so I suspect its similar to what you would get if sold it to an FFL who will re-sell it. So they likely offer about half of what the retail price would be, maybe a little less.
Their ads say they will come to your home appraise the guns a write you a check for them. Every time I hear it I can't help but think they are preying on the uneducated, but its better than a buy back. Hell, anything is better than a buy back.
Garys
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Look on gunbroker sometime and search for parts for a specific firearm. You'll find a kit that has every part except the actual "gun" or serial-numbered part. These are offered by companies that specialize in destroying guns for LE agencies and individuals, probably mostly through these "buy-backs". The gun is signed over to them and in return, they guarantee/demonstrate/provide a destroyed/cut/crushed "firearm". In reality, they strip the gun down to just the frame and cut/crush that. All the rest is technically just wood, plastic, and machined metal parts. Sell on Gunbroker and reap huge profits. It's genius.
CatSnoutSoup
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dhuze
NES Member
You're getting Grocery store gift cards, not cash gift cards.
The website says all leftover gift cards will be donated to the food pantries. Let them donate ALL the cards and lose money. f*** these things and giving them a photo opp.
The website says all leftover gift cards will be donated to the food pantries. Let them donate ALL the cards and lose money. f*** these things and giving them a photo opp.
