Nice of them to take two old broken guns off my hands for 150 bucks each.

Thanks guys!

so what gun are you putting the $300 towards?

I love these threads!

Look for it in the news, "another successful gun buyback" , probably with a bigger budget next year.

I wish we had one in Houston, I inherited two clunkers that if in good condition would be fun, but they are in terrible terrible shape.

Anybody turning in any empty green tubes for the media to cream their jeans over? I'm sure the police had their Street Sweepers out for the photo ops too. I'm convinced that the only people who own Street Sweepers anymore are the police, the whole purpose being to put them on a table for the media to take pictures in case the "buyback" has a less than stellar turnout.

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Originally posted by cas:
Look for it in the news, "another successful gun buyback" , probably with a bigger budget next year.

http://www.stltoday.com/news/l...source=home-featured

Gun buyback program in St. Louis draws hundreds of people, weapons

By Jesse Bogan St. Louis Post-Dispatch 5 hrs ago

ST. LOUIS • Hundreds of people turned up Saturday morning for a well-publicized gun buyback opportunity that officials hope will make the community safer.

It was so popular that many left without their hoped-for holiday cash.

Lured by the promise of $100 to $200 per weapon, with no questions asked, participants schlepped bags full of pistols, rifles and shotguns, many of them old and rugged.

“My brother in Arkansas rabbit-hunted with it all last year,” Willie Shelton, 67, of the city’s Penrose neighborhood, said of a pump 20-gauge shotgun that hadn’t been oiled in a long time. “It was just sitting in the corner, and I heard on the news that I could get $150.”

Behind him, Stan Sisley toted a .22-caliber rifle in a guitar sack. The inherited gun had been in a storage unit in north St. Louis County. Around 10 a.m., he and his wife were at the very end of a line that zigzagged out the Omega Center, 3900 Goodfellow Boulevard, through the parking lot and down the block.

“Might as well get rid of it, and I could use the Christmas money,” said Sisley, 62.

But he didn’t get the chance. After the couple waited in the cold more than two hours, he said, officials began turning people away at 12:15, unless they had assault weapons or wanted to donate their guns.

“I think maybe they didn’t expect the turnout that it was,” he said. “Maybe they will be more prepared next time.”

Doug Albrecht, president of the St. Louis Police Foundation, said $125,000 in donations was raised from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, individuals and companies such as Ameren and Spire to pay for the guns.

Leading up to the event, Albrecht expected about 500 to 1,000 guns to be gathered and destroyed. Should there be more, he said then, more fundraising would be needed for another event in the new year.

“We’d just do it again, which would be a good problem to have,” he said.

The event had been scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

“As you can see there is a whole group of people lined up around this building,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said at a morning press conference. “This speaks to, first of all, how our community is awash in guns and how difficult that makes our police officers’ job. It also speaks to the good people of this community who went to their basement or garage and said I don’t want this gun to fall into the wrong hands.”

She was flanked by Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards and Acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole, who were pleased by a sampling of buyback weapons that included a stolen handgun, an assault rifle with two 30-round magazines and a sawed-off shotgun.

“Right here is a huge success,” O’Toole said of the weapons selected for the news conference.

Edwards also was pleased.

“I am happy to report that many of the weapons are coming from citizens right here in the city of St. Louis, particularly in this area,” he said.

Late in the day, the police department reported that it had purchased 303 handguns, 533 long guns and six assault rifles.

But many of the people in Saturday’s line were not from the city.

“The wrong people are turning them in,” said Kent Oxman, who works at a pawnshop in St. Charles County and hoped to sell a dozen guns, including several old pistols. “The gangbangers and criminals, they aren’t going to turn their stuff in. They are still sleeping.”

Tom Flowers, 40, said it would be nice if the buyback would turn up the $1,200 handgun that was stolen from his home in south St. Louis a few years ago.

Meanwhile, he made the cut in line. He sold a Japanese rifle from the 1940s that he’d struggled to find ammo for, an old French rifle and 12-gauge shotgun. All for $450.

“It was worth standing in line,” he said. “Real good return on investment. I probably spent $150 on all of them.”

In an earlier telephone interview, Ed Dowd Jr., president of the bar association, repeated a common refrain from officials.

“Guns and violence in St. Louis are everybody’s problem, and we need everybody in St. Louis to work on the solutions to gun violence,” he said. “The gun buyback is one piece. If it stops one person from being shot, one person murdered or robbed, I would consider it successful. It will have a bigger impact than that.”

Dowd was U.S. attorney here from 1993 to 1999, a period when homicides went from 267 to 130. He said the numbers were drastically cut by a “community-wide effort.”

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Many of the commenters disagree on the value of this buyback:

http://www.stltoday.com/news/l...9.html?mode=comments

Wish there was a gun buyback near me.

Stripped AR receivers are only $35 right now. Turn in a bunch of them for $75 each and make 214% return!

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Originally posted by LDD:
Stripped AR receivers are only $35 right now. Turn in a bunch of them for $75 each and make 214% return!

Why turn in a perfectly good lower, and go through the hassle of background checks to get them in the first place?

I don't understand. The only person(s) who could possibly buy BACK any of the guns I've purchased would be the individual(s) from whom I purchased them.

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Originally posted by craigcpa:
Wish there was a gun buyback near me.

Yeah, me too. I bought four clunker revolvers at an estate sale for $15 specifically in the hopes of finding one of these buy back programs. Guess I'll have to wait a while longer to turn them into a brand new gun.

Several years ago (2013) Seattle had one as well. I had a rusted out pistol with no hope of ever being serviceable again. I drove to Seattle, turned it in and received $150. No questions, no ID just put it on the table and got my money (in the form of two Gift cards). Although my pistol was obviously worthless, I was surprised to see what was being brought (quality) and also some of the hustling going on by folks on the street offering to buy your firearm before you reached the table if you had something they were looking for.

It's also like game management, culling the old and beaten or otherwise unappealing pieces of shit and weaker sorts from the herd (all guns), increasing the aggregate quality of what's left, one silly buyback at a time. Thanks, liberals, for helping us focus on the good guns, and for paying us to do so. It's like being paid to deer hunt by a bunch of vegans. Fucking dumbasses.

#winning

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As you can see there is a whole group of people lined up around this building,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said at a morning press conference. “This speaks to, first of all, how our community is awash in guns and how difficult that makes our police officers’ job. It also speaks to the good people of this community who went to their basement or garage and said I don’t want this gun to fall into the wrong hands.”

This woman is frightening. I wish she would just stay focused on important issues like removing statues from Forest Park.

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“I think maybe they didn’t expect the turnout that it was,” he said. “Maybe they will be more prepared next time.”

Doug Albrecht, president of the St. Louis Police Foundation, said $125,000 in donations was raised from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, individuals and companies such as Ameren and Spire to pay for the guns.

Leading up to the event, Albrecht expected about 500 to 1,000 guns to be gathered and destroyed. Should there be more, he said then, more fundraising would be needed for another event in the new year.

“We’d just do it again, which would be a good problem to have,” he said.

“As you can see there is a whole group of people lined up around this building,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said at a morning press conference. “This speaks to, first of all, how our community is awash in guns and how difficult that makes our police officers’ job. It also speaks to the good people of this community who went to their basement or garage and said I don’t want this gun to fall into the wrong hands.”

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“Right here is a huge success,” O’Toole said of the weapons selected for the news conference.

These people are perpetually retarded.

Hmmmm.... Someone turned in "Assault Rifles"? Lets see the photos, please.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Hmmmm.... Someone turned in "Assault Rifles"? Lets see the photos, please.

Open the link, keep scrolling to the end to see what appears to be a very good condition 16" AR with a collapsible stock.

I'm not smart enough to post photos anymore.

I HATE to hear "assault rifle," but I expect to hear it from city mayors.

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Originally posted by Sigmund:

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Hmmmm.... Someone turned in "Assault Rifles"? Lets see the photos, please.

Open the link, keep scrolling to the end to see what appears to be a very good condition 16" AR with a collapsible stock.

I'm not smart enough to post photos anymore.

I HATE to hear "assault rifle," but I expect to hear it from city mayors.

Unless it can rock and roll, it's not an assault rifle.