Baltimore Woman Says She Will Use Gun Buyback Cash To Purchase Bigger Gun

Maybe Baltimore needs a Bigger Buy Back plan.

She should have bought one of the high powered automatic assault rifles from somebody before they turned it into the po-lice. Either that or just wait until they sell all the guns at the next police auction.

Unintended Consequences wrote:

The Baltimore City Police Department started its gun buyback program Monday and said they were able to purchase more than 500 firearms from residents. The Police Department offered anywhere from $25 to $500 depending on the type of firearm.

Black-market price of a rocket launcher has got to be more than $500 USD.

Likely, the feds themselves are "turning it in", to try to make the buy-back look like it's working.

We are not fooled wrote:

Black-market price of a rocket launcher has got to be more than $500 USD.

Likely, the feds themselves are "turning it in", to try to make the buy-back look like it's working.

I did the same thing with Obamas cash for clunkers program in 2009. Dragged a couple of junkers to the trade in and bought me a gas guzzling F350 pickup.

We all know the cops paw through the pile for the best, then keep them for themselves or sell them for cash.

YouTuber Royal Nonesuch made a quick $300 by taking 3 firearms that he’d built out of scrap and selling them back to the state of Missouri. He described two of the pipe guns as the ‘crappiest guns I’ve ever made’ but was still able to successfully sell them off to the program. The guns he built and sold were by no means a practical weapon or method of defense.

Nonesuch was literally able to sell pieces of scrap metal and garbage back to the ‘no questions asked’ program with an intention to purchase a rifle or pistol from a pawn shop after the sale. He stated to his followers that he would post again when he settled on a new gun to purchase.

Curiously, the buyback program takes place in the parking lot – in the cars of the coordinators – because the building in which the coordinators work is a “gun-free zone.” The event cost over $4,000 but coordinators had only raised about $1,500.

https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/man-sells-junk-guns-to-buy-back-program-buys-new-gun-with-cash

smart woman

men are getting bigger, stronger and more aggressive these days

First, a $500 gift card to Dollar General? Seriously? That’s like giving away a car, only for it to be Yugo.

Second, $500 per gun is hilarious.

You see, gun buybacks have to walk this odd line between offering enough to entice people to turn in their guns and not so much that they will go and get guns to turn in. A $500 buyback would encourage me to go pick up a Hi-Point or other inexpensive pistol and then take that money to drop on something else.

And that’s the problem.

About the only way to avoid that is to offer market value for each weapon. Unfortunately for buyback proponents, that’s not something they’re really in any place to try and do. They don’t know market value, for one thing. For another, market value may not be enough to get people to turn in their weapons.

Of course, the Cantrell camp figured out the problem with their plan and adjusted, offering just $500 total, regardless of how many guns people turned in.

Which, most likely, resulted in fewer guns being turned in. After all, if you’re going to give me $500 regardless, you’re going to get the one I’m least attached to, and I’ll keep the rest.

Frankly, from what I can see, this is a trainwreck even by buyback standards. Most buybacks are at least organized. They may pay for stupid things they count as guns, but at least they’re organized enough to have their stuff together before the beginning of the event.