So where do all the bad guns go?

I heard of a guy who would hear about one coming up that was offering $150 per gun, so he went to all the local gun stores and cleaned out their supply of "Saturday Night Specials" & old beat up .22's and made a "killing".
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Do let's count the number of laws that guy's breaking by doing that.
 
Do let's count the number of laws that guy's breaking by doing that.
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What laws was he breaking?

He went through the background checks and bought them all legally.

While I have not personally participated in a "buyback". I have never heard of any laws that specify the number of guns that could be "bought back" nor where they came from.

Please enlighten me.

And I will be happy to pass the info along and avoid doing it myself if it is illegal.
 
I've had a number of lemons, and have sold them with full disclosure to optimistic folks with more patience and gunsmithing skills than I.:)
 
^^^ Would that buying for buyback scheme be a "straw sale" or buying for "resale"? I don't think they could say it was fraud unless there was a rule in the buyback that it had to be a firearm owned for longer than X days. Seems sketchy, regardless.
 
this is a classic one really.

when HONEST people end up with a gun that doesnt work, they sell it off as a parts gun with that big banner "parts only, use as is atpersonal risk". others will simply have them destroyed.

however most people simply get them fixed up enough to function without any major flaw that doesnt give a possible buyer more then "hmm, stiff action but just needs some clp blown through it". otherwise its the standard
bargain corner ad, private gunshow trade, sell to a dealer at a gunshow.
 
I've gotten some of my best deals as pawn shop guns that sold cheap because the seller dumped it. A Marlin 39A that needed a pivot screw of the elevator tightened...the previous owner probably thought it didn't work. Likewise a Browning 22 takedown. It just needed the barrel nut adjusted...barrel was very wobbly and was probably shooting all over the place for the previous owner.
 
when HONEST people end up with a gun that doesnt work, they sell it off as a parts gun ..
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I suspect that most junk guns are eventually parted out or destroyed by gunsmiths, or their owners. The proportion of bad guns for sale through gunshows, and shops etc. is still a small fraction of the total number of crappy and broken guns that have been in circulation over the years.
 
I've never had the misfortune of buying a lemon, mostly because I've known who I've bought from, and I haven't bought that much. All my guns have come from the gun shop in the town I grew up in.

However, the first gun purchase I remember my dad bought a .54 muzzle loader, a SW .22 Mag J frame and a Browning .22 autoloader. The J frame we could never get any accuracy out of, and the other two have been great. All 3 still reside in his safe because... he has room for it there and its inaccuracy is not a safety problem.

For my part, if I were to get a bad gun, it'd go back to the seller if possible, or to Ken (at the gun shop) so he could either fix it up for me or sell it for parts. In either case, he'd need to know exactly what my problem with it was since my long-term relationship with him is worth much more than a junk gun.
 
Usually either gunshows, sold to a pawnshop locally or sold on gun broker. Thats why I am always skeptical of any used firearm I run accross.

If it is indeed a "bad" gun, meaning used in a crime that my department gets, well, I am the last person it meets with while it is together in one piece. Its in several when I am done. Btw, you can tell a huge difference in the metal of firearms when you take a torch to them. Also, no offense to others here, all the firearms I cut, were court ordered destroyed by a judge.
 
in a perfect world, they would go to bad gun prison for life. Instead, they are foisted off on another person somehow.

A neighbor of mine used to trade in used cars. the crap I heard from him is astounding. worn out crank bearings? drop the oil pan and pack pig skin into them. Bad compression? 50-50 mix of STP and 30 weight oil. Bad transmission? 90 wt gear oil with the transmission fluid. new plugs that are gapped either tighter or wider than standard. starting fluid added to the tank for better ignition, diesel fuel added for antiknock, sawdust in worn differentials, the list went on forever.

The moron offered me a motorcycle once, but apparently forgot that

A- he'd told me about ripping off hundreds of people
and
B- I lived next door, and would hear him swearing at it every weekend.

:rolleyes:

Nobody is going to throw a bad gun away just because it is terrible. He's going to get anything he can for it, even if it is only $50. Buyer beware.
 
I have had 2 guns that did not function well (Taurus Judge and Sig P238) I kept sending them back to the shop until they worked. The Judge took 1 trip, the sig took 3 trips and then a trip to a local gun smith.
 
"Nobody" is an absolute. It doesn't consider how PO'd some of us can get with inanimate objects.
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Granted.

I have to admit that I actually took a modem out and used it as a target for my .22. Some people see that as psychotic. I saw it as therapy, and a cheap substitute for a 3 cent paper target.
 
Some people see that as psychotic. I saw it as therapy, and a cheap substitute for a 3 cent paper target.
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I had a class that I hated in college (I don't even remember what it was now) and I couldn't sell the darn book back at the end of the semester. So I took it home with me and shot it to pieces.

Made me feel better. :D
 
I think I ended up buying most of them :rolleyes:
I (or my gunsmith) tried to fix each one, and succeeded on several occasions.
The remainder I sold with full disclosure and lost a bunch of money.
As a result, there are several brands I will never buy again.
 
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