Howard County PD gun buy back

[NB1214]

http://columbia.patch.com/articles/have-a-gun-police-will-buy-it-for-100#pdf-13575246

what a waste of tax payer money

 

[JMangle]

http://columbia.patch.com/articles/have-a-gun-police-will-buy-it-for-100#pdf-13575246

what a waste of tax payer money

Actually, this is a great usage of tax payer money. We can all unload the shitty guns that we inherited that are too rusted to shoot and too worthless to sell and get $100 in cash.

I bought a shotgun for $40 just to sell back to these idiots.

 

[chevellenut71]

I wish I had some extra cash I would stand across the street and offer 125.00 for any of the good rifles....

 

[Half-cocked]

Supposedly, the money that is used for this program is seized from drug dealers.

 

[Dklo]

How about we find an FFL to go there and handle transfers and buy the guns ourselves?

 

[AKbythebay]

It's a shame you have to be a HoCo resident because I have an old rusted POS shotgun I would love to unload for $100

 

[paxfish]

It's a shame you have to be a HoCo resident because I have an old rusted POS shotgun I would love to unload for $100

It's not one of those crappy POS Greeners is it?,

 

[Haides]

It's a shame you have to be a HoCo resident because I have an old rusted POS shotgun I would love to unload for $100

Well they say it's no questions asked right? How are they going to know if you're a resident or not?

Anybody planning on going down and trying to score some cheap rifles? lol

(this is a dupe, by the way).

 

[plinkerton]

Well they say it's no questions asked right? How are they going to know if you're a resident or not?

Anybody planning on going down and trying to score some cheap rifles? lol

(this is a dupe, by the way).

The pawn shops must have heard about this, all the cheap single shot .22's are up to about 80 bucks. Three would only net me 60 bucks.

 

[AKbythebay]

It's not one of those crappy POS Greeners is it?,

If it was I would have to add a few more zero's to the end

 

[CharlieFoxtrot]

I would like to know how they legally accomplish this? Do the police have an FFL there? Who is the ultimate buyer? Do they have to wait seven (now 45) days?

 

[fire_medic]

Wish FTF transfers of handguns were legal in MD. Not in the market for rifles right now. The Seattle Police did this and there were people buying guns down the street. When the Department ran out of money and were giving IOU's people were lined up at the other gun buyers.

 

[Hopalong]

Already being discussed: http://www.mdshooters.com/showthread.php?t=109827

 

[Haides]

I would like to know how they legally accomplish this? Do the police have an FFL there? Who is the ultimate buyer? Do they have to wait seven (now 45) days?

"Tyranny is defined as that which is legal for the government but illegal for the citizenry."

~Thomas Jefferson

 

[1156]

I'd love to stand there and see if anyone is turning in their Grandfather's old model 94s. How much trouble can you get into if you did try to buy a non-regulated rifle or shotgun across the street? We all know that besides the junk, there will some guns worth having for a hundred bucks.

 

[Redcobra]

It's a shame you have to be a HoCo resident because I have an old rusted POS shotgun I would love to unload for $100

Me too! I have a couple of old single barrel shotguns from the 50's.

 

[ThatIsAFact]

once again: how are such purchases legal?

I would like to know how they legally accomplish this? Do the police have an FFL there? Who is the ultimate buyer? Do they have to wait seven (now 45) days?

So far, nobody has tried to answer CharleFoxtrot's question. I would like to know the answer, if there is one. Does anybody have an answer?

Assuming that the Howard County Police are purchasing the firearms from Maryland residents, I don't see that there is a federal law question, nor a Federal Firearms License required. But to purchase handguns, does the Police Department have to have, or utilize the services of someone with, a Maryland regulated firearms dealers license? If not, why not? Keep in mind that they are not confiscating these guns in the course of enforcing criminal laws -- they are proposing to purchase them.

 

[Derblk]

I'm going to participate in that. I'm grabbing all kinds of unwanted guns by paying people $150, for all the guns I like with no questions asked.

 

[2AHokie]

It was answered in the other thread by someone who called HoCo police: http://www.mdshooters.com/showpost.php?p=2219290&postcount=24

The HoCo-provided explanation doesn't make any sense to me, but apparently "rewarding" people who turn in "unwanted" guns is legal. I don't intend to be the test case.