Chicago gun "buyback" this weekend

What's stopping private FFL's from doing their own gun-buy back program? They can even advertise that "dangerous guns will be destroyed", keeping all non-dangerous guns for resale, stripping parts of dangerous guns and then selling the rest for scrap. Could you make money at this at $100 per gun?
 
Spats, I love that idea of setting up a stand across the street. As long as you have a FFL license how could they stop you?:D
 
As long as you have a FFL license how could they stop you?
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Arrest you for loitering, or disturbing the peace? Or how about they arrest you without charging you for anything and throw you in the drunk tank for 72 hours, beat the crap out of you and release you?

We are talking about Chicago here. The cops shoot people just for their own amusement and they get away with it. (Don't believe me? look up Officer Alvin Weems)
 
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even the tribune is not afraid to call a spade a spade here, gun turns in do nothing but get old, mostly useless firearms off the street.
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They are quoting Gary Kleck. I would say they have surrendered.
 
Why the 'no questions asked' policy?
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That's my favorite part; ensures that any guns which truly were on the street, will be melted down rather than identified as having been used in a crime. And the cops go along with it!?!? I could shoot at a cop one day, then get paid the next (while the cop watches!), to have the gun disposed of. The whole idea is so obviously counter-productive, that I can't believe anyone is dumb enough to be conned into it (the people who put on the buy-back event, that is).
 
The whole idea is so obviously counter-productive, that I can't believe anyone is dumb enough to be conned into it (the people who put on the buy-back event, that is).
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Events like this have nothing to do with getting illegally-owned firearms off the streets. Their purpose is to generate a "guns on the table" moment on the evening news.

We've all seen it. A local politician stands in front of a table covered with guns or other contraband and harangues the news cameras about how he's "cleaning up the streets." Joined by a crowd of local law enforcement and sympathetic onlookers, he gets his 30 seconds of political capital.

Nobody asks where the guns actually came from or where they go. The soundbite is the objective and purpose.
 
Indeed. A news event to impress the unaware majority. I talk to people every day about various political happenings. The vast majority can only regurgitate what they hear on the news. Any event is good if the majority of news outlets report it as good. Actual affect is irrelevant, not even an afterthought.
 
edfrompa said:
Spats, I love that idea of setting up a stand across the street. As long as you have a FFL license how could they stop you?
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As much as I hate to put the kabosh (sp?) on my own idea, the honest truth is that it really wouldn't be that hard. It could be a simple as sending the PD over to check to see if you have the proper permits. Who's going to go see if the buyback people have their permits in order?
 
On a more humorous note, it looks like someone made good use of the gun buyback. I think there's a lesson in this one.

A "Best Buy" in Chicagoland 2012: Selling (s)crap metal at a gun turn in

The Short Story: Templar223 of The High Road, OP in the linked thread above, and "his merry band of Guns Save Life" have been collecting rusted out, non-fuctioning, battered guns for several years, just waiting for the next buyback. They turned in a boatload of guns and plan on using the money for Darnall's NRA Youth Shooting Camp held each summer in Bloomington, IL at Darnall's GunWorks and Ranges. Score one for the good guys!
 
BWAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

A brilliant move on their part. Too bad about the civil war antique.

As I said in the thread header "So everyone get down there and take all of your $2 replicas and get your $10." These guys took it to a new level.

Everyone who has a junk firearm, or is a gunsmith who gets non-repairable firearms, should send them to these guys to further their cause.
 
Oh, I know where the $ is coming from. Buybacks are silly, but let's at least put them to good use. GSL (the organization that turned in all the guns) is planning to use the money to support an NRA Youth Shooting Camp. It really IS for the children! :D
 
Call it cheap insurance for the future. All of those kids will be pro-firearms and, who knows, one or more of them may grow up to be a CCW holder who saves a life; or a politician who fights for our freedom; or ...

The possibilities are endless.
 
Chicago firearms buyback program used to fund shooting camp for kids

Pro-gun group uses Chicago firearms buyback program to fund shooting camp for kids

Progun group "sells back" 60 old and broken firearms for over $6,000 in a Chicago-based gun buyback program. Then uses the money to buy guns and ammo for an NRA-sponsored shooting camp for kids.

Group president John Boch said, "The program was intended to get unwanted and unused guns off the street to make the community safer. We provided them unused and unwanted guns."

The police department accused Boch's group of "abusing" a program intended to fight Chicago's crime rate.
 
The police department accused Boch's group of "abusing" a program intended to fight Chicago's crime rate.
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So is the PD rep basically saying "we were really only hoping to get guns from the unsavory types who would otherwise shoot each other with them"?
 
If it's a "No Questions Asked" program then what concern is it of theirs what the "sellers" do with their payments? And what happened to the liberal idea that "Education is the Answer to Everything!"
 
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