San Fransisco Gun Buyback.......... Which one of you is this?

[ARCHIVED THREAD] - San Fransisco Gun Buyback.......... Which one of you is this? (Page 1 of 3)

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:53:28 PM EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some San Franciscans are giving up their guns -- for gift cards.

On Saturday, police officers accepted 100 guns from about 80 people in the city's second "Gifts for Guns" event.

One city official says four assault rifles and two sawed-off shotguns were turned over in the no-questions-asked effort to get guns off the streets.

Participants got $100 gift cards for turning in rifles or shotguns, $150 cards for revolvers or semiautomatic pistols and $200 cards for assault-type weapons like AK-47s.

One skeptic of the program says he turned in two pistols that he said were worthless and collected $300 in gift cards. He says you can buy junk guns for $10 and use the cards to buy new ones.

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:56:21 PM EDT

[#1]

there was a thread a few months back of a guy that did this in Chicago.

He cleared a few grand for his junior shooting team

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:57:25 PM EDT

[#2]

Used Highpoint = $80
Gift Card = $200

Buying a better pistol and a new NRA membership at the expense of a liberal = priceless!

Posted: 12/1/2007 7:58:49 PM EDT

[#3]

Quoted:
there was a thread a few months back of a guy that did this in Chicago.

He cleared a few grand for his junior shooting team

I remember that thread......... Arfcom gold

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:01:48 PM EDT

[#4]

I am curious what "assault Rifles" and "sawed off" shotguns were turned in. I highly doubt those titles.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:03:30 PM EDT

[#5]

Quoted:
I am curious what "assault Rifles" and "sawed off" shotguns were turned in. I highly doubt those titles.

Highpoint carbines

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:06:02 PM EDT

[#6]

Peter Buxtun, a 70-year-old gun advocate, turned in two pistols Saturday that he said were worthless. He collected $300 in gift cards.

"You can buy junk guns for $10 and then use the gift cards to buy new guns," he said.

"I saw a half-dozen uniformed SF police officers taken off the street to sit for hours in a City Hall photo-op, instead of patrolling certain drug-ridden and gang-infested neighborhoods."

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:06:56 PM EDT

[#7]

Quoted:
Used Highpoint = $80
Gift Card = $200

Buying a better pistol and a new NRA membership at the expense of a liberal = priceless!

That is great!

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:07:11 PM EDT

[#8]

yes, the mag is inserted that way

the rest of the pics are here;

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/12/01/BAGB6TML7O.DTL&o=0

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:10:24 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
yes, the mag is inserted that way

http://www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/12/02/ba_sfguns02080pc.jpg]www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/12/02/ba_sfguns02080pc.jpg

Wonder if the schmoe that turned that in knows he could have gotten 3-4 times what they gave him for it.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:11:09 PM EDT

[#10]

My dad used to buy shite guns at the gun show and turn them in for gift cards around the holidays.

He traded in a carnival bb gun once and they took it.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:13:07 PM EDT

[#11]

Someone bought a Mosin for $50 at Big-5 and made a nice profit.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:14:19 PM EDT

[#12]

I sure hope they have one of those here soon.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:14:34 PM EDT

[#13]

Damn,I wish I could get $100 for my old beat up Revelation 12 ga. or $200 for my Yugo SKS with the screwed-up front sight

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:15:31 PM EDT

[#14]

If that sh1t happens in Ohio I am going to run up to AimSurplus and buy every dang M44 they have.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:17:22 PM EDT

[#15]

Who needs to buy guns. Who does not have a few junkers kicking around the back of the safe? I can think of 4 guns right now I would dump in a heartbeat for $100 each.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:18:09 PM EDT

[#16]

Quoted:
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Some San Franciscans are giving up their guns -- for gift cards.

On Saturday, police officers accepted 100 guns from about 80 people in the city's second "Gifts for Guns" event.

One city official says four assault rifles and two sawed-off shotguns were turned over in the no-questions-asked effort to get guns off the streets.

Participants got $100 gift cards for turning in rifles or shotguns, $150 cards for revolvers or semiautomatic pistols and $200 cards for assault-type weapons like AK-47s.

One skeptic of the program says he turned in two pistols that he said were worthless and collected $300 in gift cards. He says you can buy junk guns for $10 and use the cards to buy new ones.

Hmmm, finally a use for airsoft...

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:20:50 PM EDT

[#17]

Ah the joys of liberal ignorance. =p

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:23:33 PM EDT

[#18]

If they would ever have a gun buyback in Atlanta I would clean up!

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:27:49 PM EDT

[#19]

At "Liberals'" expense?

They're taxing all Californians to pay for this.

Kudos, tho, for getting some of your tax dollars back. I wouldn't throw away a nice C&R gun that way, tho, even if I could make an immediate profit.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:30:38 PM EDT

[#20]

Quoted:
At "Liberals'" expense?

They're taxing all Californians to pay for this.

Anyone interested in renting a truck, filling it with trash guns, and driving it down to the PRC for some easy cash?

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:30:42 PM EDT

[#21]

Quoted:
At "Liberals'" expense?

They're taxing all Californians to pay for this.

Kudos, tho, for getting some of your tax dollars back. I wouldn't throw away a nice C&R gun that way, tho, even if I could make an immediate profit.

Like I said. Californians elect these people so whats that make them?

Oh yeah.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:34:35 PM EDT

[#22]

Quoted:

Quoted:
At "Liberals'" expense?

They're taxing all Californians to pay for this.

Anyone interested in renting a truck, filling it with trash guns, and driving it down to the PRC for some easy cash?

California might be buying them no questions asked, but that doesn't exempt you from the Fed law you'd break by doing that.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:34:48 PM EDT

[#23]

They need to do this with buttplugs. I bet it wouldn't be nearly as succesful.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:36:55 PM EDT

[#24]

Quoted:

Shameful to see those perfectly good guns being sent to a gruesome death.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:40:04 PM EDT

[#25]

What a fat, worthless, cocksucker on the left in that last pic.

San Fran's finest.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:41:30 PM EDT

[#26]

Normally, gun ~~buybacks~~ swaps for taxpayer dollars make me go:

But now I see a need to stock up on old and used .22 handguns.

But the person that gave up that AK clone is a fool.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:44:17 PM EDT

[#27]

It's good to see that deadly Mosin Nagant with its evil bayonet of the streets.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:46:44 PM EDT

[#28]

Quoted:
It's good to see that deadly Mosin Nagant with its evil bayonet of the streets.

Made by commies and going to meet its end by a different sort of commies.

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:47:41 PM EDT

[#29]

A few years ago a guy my son went to college with heard that they were accepting bb guns at one of these things. He went to wal-mart and bought a $20 bb gun thinking if they didn't accept it he could return it and get his money back. They took it and gave him a wal-mart gift card. He went and bought another bb gun and spent the rest on ammo. He went back and did the same thing again. After he traded in he third bb gun they told him not to come back

Nothing like sticking it to the man

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:52:11 PM EDT

[#30]

LOL That mosin would have costed less than $100. Whoever turned it in, if they were sticking it to the Man, good job!

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:52:37 PM EDT

[#31]

Finally, a use for all those burned out AK barrels.

Weld'em to a bunch of scrap steel and bolt on some broken stock kit, maybe $50 in parts=$200 gift card!

FTW!

Posted: 12/1/2007 8:57:03 PM EDT

[#32]

Quoted:
LOL That mosin would have costed less than $100. Whoever turned it in, if they were sticking it to the Man, good job!

While you might say that now, think of the future when there aren't quite so many Mosins. I for one am very sad to see any of those perfectly functional guns go to the police to be destroyed. I wish I had the money to go out there and buy all the guns up instead of the police.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:00:49 PM EDT

[#33]

Quoted:

Quoted:
LOL That mosin would have costed less than $100. Whoever turned it in, if they were sticking it to the Man, good job!

While you might say that now, think of the future when there aren't quite so many Mosins. I for one am very sad to see any of those perfectly functional guns go to the police to be destroyed. I wish I had the money to go out there and buy all the guns up instead of the police.

Destroyed?

In some of those pics it looks like the handlers are trying to decide where in their den would be the best place to hang those on the wall.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:07:03 PM EDT

[#34]

Quoted:
If that sh1t happens in Ohio I am going to run up to AimSurplus and buy every dang M44 they have.

Nice. Let's destroy serviceable, historic weapons for a few bucks.

Oh, and give the antis a nice photo op.

I think that the idea is to buy rusted old S&W revolvers from garage sales and get $150 for them.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:07:05 PM EDT

[#35]

Damn, I could have gone to that.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:07:22 PM EDT

[#36]

Quoted:
What a fat, worthless, cocksucker on the left in that last pic.

San Fran's finest.

He's not usually that fat, he and his boyfriend are expecting.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:08:09 PM EDT

[#37]

The sergeant with the red beard looks like he is trying to figure out how to get that M69 Romanian .22 and M44 back to the house. Wouldn't bother me at all if some gun nut cops got a few freebies out of that cluster fuck.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:08:30 PM EDT

[#38]

height=8

Quoted:
A few years ago a guy my son went to college with heard that they were accepting bb guns at one of these things. He went to wal-mart and bought a $20 bb gun thinking if they didn't accept it he could return it and get his money back. They took it and gave him a wal-mart gift card. He went and bought another bb gun and spent the rest on ammo. He went back and did the same thing again. After he traded in he third bb gun they told him not to come back hing

Classic!....ROFL....

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:09:41 PM EDT

[#39]

Quoted:

Quoted:
What a fat, worthless, cocksucker on the left in that last pic.

San Fran's finest.

He's not usually that fat, he and his boyfriend are expecting.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:18:02 PM EDT

[#40]

Quoted:
Someone bought a Mosin for $50 at Big-5 and made a nice profit.

www.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2007/12/02/ba_sfguns02128pc.jpg

That's probably one of the so-called assault rifles they mentioned.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:19:24 PM EDT

[#41]

height=8

Quoted:

Shameful to see those perfectly good guns being sent to a gruesome death.

hey. Come to think of it they should give me the AK, but the M44 is definitely legal in this f'd up state of ours.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:19:53 PM EDT

[#42]

Quoted:

Quoted:
LOL That mosin would have costed less than $100. Whoever turned it in, if they were sticking it to the Man, good job!

While you might say that now, think of the future when there aren't quite so many Mosins. I for one am very sad to see any of those perfectly functional guns go to the police to be destroyed. I wish I had the money to go out there and buy all the guns up instead of the police.

Destroyed?

In some of those pics it looks like the handlers are trying to decide where in their den would be the best place to hang those on the wall.

Rest assured that ALL of those guns are going to the smelter. The police catalog and inventory every one of those guns as they come in and no cop is going to risk his job over a free gun.

I think it is horrible to see a functioning firearm destroyed like that. Just horrible.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:22:41 PM EDT

[#43]

Quoted:

Quoted:
LOL That mosin would have costed less than $100. Whoever turned it in, if they were sticking it to the Man, good job!

While you might say that now, think of the future when there aren't quite so many Mosins. I for one am very sad to see any of those perfectly functional guns go to the police to be destroyed. I wish I had the money to go out there and buy all the guns up instead of the police.

+1

I argee

Junk guns that are broken, used up, or just plain shitty quality like a lorcin or jennings sure I've no problem with turning them in for a profit and buy quality firearms.

Don't have a perfectly good mosin destroyed though.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:23:08 PM EDT

[#44]

Quoted:
If that sh1t happens in Ohio I am going to run up to AimSurplus and buy every dang M44 they have.

+1.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:24:49 PM EDT

[#45]

Quoted:
Who needs to buy guns. Who does not have a few junkers kicking around the back of the safe? I can think of 4 guns right now I would dump in a heartbeat for $100 each.

+1!!! I've got two that I'd gladly part with for $100 a pop. then I'd take that $200 and put it towards a new upper lol.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:25:10 PM EDT

[#46]

Hmm, turning in a beat to crap Raven .25 for $150....

I bought one years ago new for under $100.....

What do they sell for used, $10?

Not to mention all the drive by bayonetings getting that M44 "assault rifle" off the street will prevent....

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:29:53 PM EDT

[#47]

I'd wish they'd announce it so I could participate. I'd buy every single worthless gun and turn it in for a profit. Trader's Gun Store (since then lost their FFL for other reasons) in San Leandro did that once and got rid of all their junk.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:34:09 PM EDT

[#48]

I wonder if they collect guns in these BS buyback programs, then at the end of the year claim they "took numerous dangerous assault weapons off the streets," like they stopped some suspicious looking homey and found a mosin-nagant in his pants.

By the way, who the fuck commits a crime with a romanian 22 bolt action?

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:34:36 PM EDT

[#49]

I bought a .32-20 Spanish revolver for $15 about 10 years ago waiting for one of those buy back programs.

I also have a MAS 36/51 I bought for $50 last year.

Around here all they give out are gift cards to grocery stores and athletic shoe stores.

Posted: 12/1/2007 9:46:34 PM EDT

[#50]

I think it is horrible to see a functioning firearm destroyed like that. Just horrible.

+ 1

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