So Oakland County being now Democrat-dominated, wants to do a gun "buy back" to show they're doing something.
The Detroit Free Press: Oakland County cops want to buy your gun
Those who turn in guns are to receive generic Visa-type gift cards. The amounts are $100 in exchange for a handgun, $200 for a long gun and $300 for an assault rifle, according to a news release. Those who turn in firearms will need to provide ID. The "gun buyback" is scheduled for Saturday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., at these sites:That's certainly below market rates for just about any firearm.
Since the County never owned these firearms calling this a "gun buyback" is an abuse of the English language and a word choice to suggest only the state should have firearms.
So this is basically a nice County-run crime-gun laundering scheme, using $45,000 of our tax dollars, to let criminals get rid of guns they've stolen or used in a crime, and it also nicely encourages people to go out and steal guns for cash.
Really great incentives there.
Or, even worse, it is an attempt to swindle people who are ignorant of the value of the firearms to give them up for a pittance in the name of social justice and "getting guns off the street" -- guns that aren't on the streets now.
There's certainly some potential free market opportunities here to go to the locations listed in the article and offer a tad more than what the County is offering. After all, form looking a the guns they have displayed on the table all of them are worth more than the County's offering price.
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My sources tell me that criminals are very willing to pay MSRP cash for stolen guns because they have no way to obtain them legally.
Most stolen property moves for 10%-to-20% of MSRP.
I don't think Oakland county will be getting very many guns from criminals, either.
This is an excellent opportunity for somebody to build a bunch of cheap crappy slamfire Homedepot shotguns and turn them at $200 each.
If enough people take advantage, then they quit this crap.
Or a few 3-D printed lowers...
I have an old shotgun of my dads, a bolt action with a missing magazine, that I have tried to find, and no one has one. The bolt is also damaged, and so it won't fire single shot, either. It might be worth 30$ or so, on a good day, to someone who wants to build a black powder handgun or something out of it.
200$ for that is not enough money to entice me to drive from my side of the state to that side of the state, but it would be the kind of gun that I would sell at a gun buyback, if there were such a misnamed thing.
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