Amazon sponsors gun buy back in Seattle

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11 years 11 months ago #16135 by et1911rph
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Hopefully the link will work but it appears that Amazon ponied up money for a gun buy back in Seattle. As a company they certainly have a right to do so. I generally avoid advocating boycotts as I believe there are others means to make one's point.

This came from thread on the 1911 forum

www.king5.com/news/local/Seattle-gun-buy...ry-26-188346401.html

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11 years 11 months ago #16137 by Sharkey
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I think gun buy back programs are more just for show anyway Bud. As far as boycotting Amazon, if they went on a sudden fund raising spree for politicians supporting the weapons ban or to stop hunting or something that would be one thing but as far as just offering people money for old guns they have hanging around doing nothing anyway, more power to em.

Most of those programs are all just publicity stunts as far as I'm concerned.

And who knows, maybe some scumbag who might rob someone chose to sell it to the buyback instead anyway so what the heck.

I don't think you'll see very many guys walking up with brand new ARs to trade for a $100 gift certificate. These are more just things people have around they have no idea how to use or just don't want em around anymore for whatever reason.

No harm no foul on this one I say...
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11 years 11 months ago #16138 by VTIT
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Handguns, rifles and shotguns were worth a $100 gift card. Guns classified as assault weapons were worth $200.


Hell I'd give them more than that if they would fire. Cheapskates. I am amazed they got anyone to show up.

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11 years 11 months ago #16163 by OleCowboy
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I am with you Shark, most of the stuff they get is junk. But there are some gems in there which do not seem to make it to the scrap pile which is not good but what is worse is if they do.

There is that old gun that was in grandma's box of stuff you got after the funeral. Take it down there and get you $100, only that old gun was a Colt 3rd mdl Dragoon he had got from his granddad who carried it in the War of Northern Aggression and its only worth about $500,000 today. Granted there are not a lot of this, but I think every buyback program should have someone who looks over the guns to insure that a piece of history is not going to the scrap heap. But I would imagine there is already someone who is looking them over for their own benefit, who knows the guy who owns Amazon might be a gun collector.

On a similar note I was read some anti gun hate mail the other day and they were talking about various people, famous that were anti gun supporters. They mentioned Jack Lord (Steve McGarrett Hawaii Five-0). Jack Lord and my dad were friends, my dad was an avid gun collector and in fact owned a business called 'Texas Guns'. I know for a fact Jack Lord had a gun collection and liked them, if he was anti-gun I nor my dad never knew it, heard it and in all the times that Jack would stop off at our house in his travels. We have a major battle ahead of us to save our God Given Rights, which is what the Bill of Rights is...

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