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Related: About this forumGun group skims the best 100 guns off the top of Cleveland buyback
The police ran out of gift certificates at about 11:30, so all the people who realized they would be getting nothing came over to a parking lot near us and we bought the guns for cash, Brett Pucillo, president of Ohio Carry told Guns.com Sunday. Overall we saved about 100 guns. Anything worth saving was saved. I would say less than 10 guns of actual value made it through us to get turned in to police. If the guns werent worth anything, we directed them over to the police to at least get something for them. And we did encounter a couple with scratched off serial numbers that we immediately directed to the police, said Pucillio.
The gun rights advocate stressed that all of the guns were bought in individual transactions and included several collectable firearms and antiques. The cache included a Colt 1911 and M1 Garand of World War II vintage, a Ruger Blackhawk and a Dan Wesson .357 Magnum that went into the hands of gun lovers rather than into the furnace door of a smelter.
Ohio Carry is not the only group in the Buckeye State that sets up camp at gun buyback programs. Ohio CCW recently bought an advertising box truck with a large advertisement on the side discussing the ineffectiveness of buybacks in reducing crime and directing people to a phone number they could text to get cash offers on their guns. The truck was on hand for the event this weekend although it is unknown if the group was able to purchase any firearms.
http://www.guns.com/2014/09/08/gun-group-skims-the-best-100-guns-off-the-top-of-cleveland-buyback-video/
Glad they were able to save those firearms of historic value and they did send those altered ser. #'s to the police.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)I hope that some or most came from homes where they presented potential danger to kids or spouses, etc.
I hope none of them were stolen for the purposes of getting certificates, as might be the case with no-questions-asked programs.
How did Ohio Carry handle the paperwork? (I'm from California)
IronGate
(2,186 posts)so, no paper work involved.
petronius
(26,602 posts)Plus, since the gun group kept buying after the police had to shut down, it seems that more unwanted firearms were transferred than would otherwise have been the case. Presumably, the police and other sponsors of the gun-exchange would applaud that outcome; it's an all-around win IMO...
steelsmith
(59 posts)We had a situation in Tucson where the grabber city councilman had the police throw the local gun group out of the area when they held a "buy back"
BigAlanMac
(59 posts)On their forums people that were there said that people were stopping by the cash for guns groups first and those with junk guns were directed to the police to get a gift certificate. If the guns had defaced serial numbers they were directed to the police officers.
ileus
(15,396 posts)I could kick myself in the jimbo's for not seeing what history Garands and M1 Carbines were back in the 80's. Then they were just surplus junk, not good for nothing.
I so wish I would have purchased either an M1 or Springfield 1903 back then.