Will the Feds ever offer a Cash for Guns scheme like Cash for Clunkers?
I work part time selling guns. When I first started a long time ago, I screwed up. I paid $15 for a beat up 22, I think it was a Savage, maybe not. I honestly thought after cleaning and sighting in, it would be a serviceable plinker. It wasn’t. The boss was a little mad because he didn’t consider it salable. It was locked up for nearly a year in a storage vault.
Then they had a gun buy back program. You got $25, even for a bolt action 22. Semi-auto? That meant $50! POS 25 auto pistol, you got $100. We got rid of a Raven Arms MP-25 that way. Probably paid $10 for it. No takers at $50, not even $30, but the government was glad to pay $100 for it! We even recovered a small profit on the 22. Pity they only allowed the turn in of 2 guns per person.
I still work for that shop. We have a Marlin 60 from about 1975 that has sat on our racks for a year or so. Was $75. Marked down to $60, then to $50. No takers. It is beat. The funny part is it is technically an “Assault Rifle” as if you have a detachable magazine of 10+ rounds or a fixed magazine of 15+ rounds. This gun and other semi-auto tube fed 22’s had typically 17 until the early 1990’s. Today the Model 60 has only 14 rounds in a shorter tube simply because the old way technically made it an “assault rifle”. What fearsome force of mercenary-terrorists carry a 1980’s vintage Marlin 60 into battle? How many live to tell about it? Maybe they want to incapacitate our troops by having them laugh hysterically at their “assault weapons”? Who can understand those dastardly minds. Sheer military genius if you ask me!
Anyhow… we will be glad to turn in this evil weapon. We fully expect the reward to be over $100. We have a vault of garbage guns we’d LOVE to unload. Will Uncle Sam be buying soon?