Gift Cards for Guns

[jilly]

"Dollar General stores are partnering with the Metro police department, Nashville’s clergy and Crime Stoppers to offer $25-dollar gift cards to families who want to rid their homes of unsafe, unwanted or unused firearms.

Chief Steve Anderson today announced that a holiday season Gift Cards for Guns initiative will be held on Saturday, November 17th, from 8 a.m. to 12 noon, in the parking lot of Tusculum Hills Baptist Church, 4930 Nolensville Pike. Davidson County citizens will be able to safely exchange real firearms for $25 Dollar General gift cards, no questions asked (limit of 1 gift card per person/2 per family). The gift cards can be used at Dollar General stores to purchase any items, including groceries, gifts and other holiday supplies."
http://www.police.nashville.org/news/media/2012/11/08f.asp

If anyone has an unwanted GP100, please let me know first.

[vontar]

We need to go start our own buy back program just infront of the police like they did in Austin Texas.

http://deadlinelive.info/2011/02/26/first-ever-austinites-outbid-police-in-gun-buyback-counter-program/

video included.

[TrickyNicky]

Twenty five dollars!! WTF?! I thought the goi g rate on stolen guns was $50 through the PD?

Cheapskates.

[Guest D.B. Cooper]

If anyone has an unsafe, unwanted, or unused firearm, I'll take it off your hands for a $50 gift card.

[monkeylizard]

The risk is that you're buying stolen firearms or firearms used in crimes. Anyone know if there is a way to run the S/N vi athe web to find out? I know about those user-submitted database searches, but I mean the real ones that LE reports stolen S/Ns into. If so, tablet PC/iPad and a fat stack of cash could net some nice finds along with some Rohms.

[monkeylizard]

Wait a minute. I saw the pic at the bottom of the article from a prior trade-in....looks like a bunch of Rohms and things that make Rohm look good.

[K191145]

A Rohm that shoots is worth at least $35 these days, what a ripoff.

[DaveS]

I wish they would do some buy backs here! I got some to get rid of!

Dave S

[hipower]

[quote name='TheBisch' timestamp='1352498495' post='842704']
If anyone has an unsafe, unwanted, or unused firearm, I'll take it off your hands for a $50 gift card.
[/quote]

I got an old HiStandard Sentential 22 that's out of time, cyclinder loose, bad firing pin, that's been refused work by a local gunsmith. Wanna buy it?

[Guest D.B. Cooper]

[quote name='hipower' timestamp='1352507273' post='842792']
I got an old HiStandard Sentential 22 that's out of time, cyclinder loose, bad firing pin, that's been refused work by a local gunsmith. Wanna buy it?
[/quote]

Er... um... I think I'll let the po-po have that one.

[vontar]

[quote name='hipower' timestamp='1352507273' post='842792']
I got an old HiStandard Sentential 22 that's out of time, cyclinder loose, bad firing pin, that's been refused work by a local gunsmith. Wanna buy it?
[/quote]
[quote name='TheBisch' timestamp='1352554187' post='843012']
Er... um... I think I'll let the po-po have that one.
[/quote]

I think he is keeping that one for when they come looking for guns. I mean that is the one that was in his pocket when he had his boating accident. All others already lost.

[hipower]

You know, the sad thing is I bought this from a co-worker who hated guns. He found it in an old trunk and wanted 50 bucks for it. I offered 30 and got it.It looked pretty good and shot real well for a couple 100 rounds. Then just sorta fell apart one afternoon. Cyclinder sorta hung up between shots and that was the end. I took it to Jeff Walle at G&L and he informed me that I would be better off throwing in the nearest trash can. Cheap potmetal construction and very few parts available for the little cutie.

So I knocked out the firing pin and put it in a shadow box for my wife to display with her western stuff.

[Guest HvyMtl]

Yeah, if we can be allowed to buy the guns. Most will be junk. Some possible treasures. But, most will make Jiminez look like a vintage collector's item.

My viewpoint on this: It is an exploitation of the poor, to get a good media story for the cops. Edited November 10, 2012 by HvyMtl

[Gun Smith]

Yeah, I wish some do-gooders would do some good in Murfreesboro. I've been waiting for years to get rid of a high school homemade one.