What I find to be the worst part of the story is the Luger that was turned in. That is at least a collectible and depending on condition maybe a museum piece. On the free market it should have fetched far more. Now it is likely to be destroyed.
The pen gun makes me realize the potential profits here. You can make a “pen gun” that will likely pass muster for “buyback” purposes in about an hour for less than $10 in materials.
Step one: Make pengun
Step two: go to gun buyback location
Step three: profits!
You really need to spend $25 and make a legal handgun, with a rifled barrel and hand grip.
Make a habit of “cashing in” on an unrifled, homemade class III firearms without the proper paperwork, and I would guess they would find probable cause to arrest you on the way to the “buy-back”.
$200 per pistol? Crap, the Antis up here would only give you a $100 Target Gift Card (no Irony there!), or a Gas Card, or a Grocery Card when they did their Buyback last weekend. Got 500 weapons, and they ran out of the cards. People actually turned around and went home, with their guns still in their possession, and the POPO couldn’t touch them.
Maybe Bloomberg should cough up some more cash, or does his MAIG Group only care about NYC Buybacks?
September 21st, 2011 at 8:37 am
What I find to be the worst part of the story is the Luger that was turned in. That is at least a collectible and depending on condition maybe a museum piece. On the free market it should have fetched far more. Now it is likely to be destroyed.
September 21st, 2011 at 8:47 am
The pen gun makes me realize the potential profits here. You can make a “pen gun” that will likely pass muster for “buyback” purposes in about an hour for less than $10 in materials.
Step one: Make pengun
Step two: go to gun buyback location
Step three: profits!
September 21st, 2011 at 9:17 am
@Teke: I was just about to quote that. It made me physically sick.
September 21st, 2011 at 9:47 am
No doubt the luger will escape the smelter and join someones personal collection… What do you want to bet they even mis-catalogued it already???
September 21st, 2011 at 10:16 am
@divemedic
You really need to spend $25 and make a legal handgun, with a rifled barrel and hand grip.
Make a habit of “cashing in” on an unrifled, homemade class III firearms without the proper paperwork, and I would guess they would find probable cause to arrest you on the way to the “buy-back”.
September 21st, 2011 at 12:20 pm
$200 per pistol? Crap, the Antis up here would only give you a $100 Target Gift Card (no Irony there!), or a Gas Card, or a Grocery Card when they did their Buyback last weekend. Got 500 weapons, and they ran out of the cards. People actually turned around and went home, with their guns still in their possession, and the POPO couldn’t touch them.
Maybe Bloomberg should cough up some more cash, or does his MAIG Group only care about NYC Buybacks?
September 21st, 2011 at 3:44 pm
Note that they call it a buy”back” program.
Buyback means purchase by a previous owner.
Does this imply that the only rightful owner of such weapons is the State?
September 25th, 2011 at 6:29 pm
“The owner of the powerful, pintsized pistol”
OK then. My 380 is awesome then. I won’t even mention my portable cannon 45-70.