Comments on: Guns for Groceries http://www.firearmstruth.com/2009/guns-for-groceries Media bias of fireams in the crosshairs. Fri, 30 Jul 2010 13:30:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nathan http://www.firearmstruth.com/2009/guns-for-groceries/comment-page-1#comment-309 Nathan Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:20:09 +0000 http://www.firearmstruth.com/?p=1048#comment-309 Hey, I was one of the guys at that buyback. It made me sick to see so many nice and beautiful guns to make rebar. Those of us trying to inform people of the value of the firearms were kicked off the premises and only permitted to be on public property, which was just a small patch of sidewalk. Anyone that stopped to ask for info was threatened with citation and those giving information were given warnings. However, in future events there will be ways for us gun enthusiasts to better appraise firearms for people. Of particular note is that there won't be any more gun buybacks at the location this one was held at, since there is overwhelming evidence that this event was a legally mismanaged mess. Several of the guns lost were true pieces of art and history. One gun was a Winchester 1906, another few guns were listed as "Russian military guns" which could have been Mosins, SKSs or SVTs, and there were quite a few WW2 trainer rifles and an assortment of beautiful hunting guns. These were not crime guns. These were guns that any red-blooded American would be proud to own. On a brighter note, I ended up saving one gun from becoming rebar! I saved a beautiful 1959 Winchester Model 12, my favorite shotgun of all time :) http://caopencarry.blogspot.com/2009/12/gun-buyback.html Hey, I was one of the guys at that buyback. It made me sick to see so many nice and beautiful guns to make rebar. Those of us trying to inform people of the value of the firearms were kicked off the premises and only permitted to be on public property, which was just a small patch of sidewalk. Anyone that stopped to ask for info was threatened with citation and those giving information were given warnings. However, in future events there will be ways for us gun enthusiasts to better appraise firearms for people. Of particular note is that there won’t be any more gun buybacks at the location this one was held at, since there is overwhelming evidence that this event was a legally mismanaged mess.

Several of the guns lost were true pieces of art and history. One gun was a Winchester 1906, another few guns were listed as “Russian military guns” which could have been Mosins, SKSs or SVTs, and there were quite a few WW2 trainer rifles and an assortment of beautiful hunting guns. These were not crime guns. These were guns that any red-blooded American would be proud to own.

On a brighter note, I ended up saving one gun from becoming rebar! I saved a beautiful 1959 Winchester Model 12, my favorite shotgun of all time :)

http://caopencarry.blogspot.com/2009/12/gun-buyback.html

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