I only paid $250 for it 20 years ago. I can't legally sell it because you cannot legally buy them anymore in CA so this might be a good way to get rid of it.
Sell it out of state?
Only guns that get sold at buy backs are broken and stolen. The few working guns traded are those that granddad left in the closet when he passed and the like. The PR stunt that does nothing to improve safety.
Probably more trouble than it's worth. How much do these things sell for these days anyway?
So what have the Australian laws actually done for homicide and suicide rates? Howard cites a study (pdf) by Andrew Leigh of Australian National University and Christine Neill of Wilfrid Laurier University finding that the firearm homicide rate fell by 59 percent, and the firearm suicide rate fell by 65 percent, in the decade after the law was introduced, without a parallel increase in non-firearm homicides and suicides. That provides strong circumstantial evidence for the law's effectiveness.
The paper also estimated that buying back 3,500 guns per 100,000 people results in a 35 to 50 percent decline in the homicide rate, but because of the low number of homicides in Australia normally, this finding isn't statistically significant.
There's probably something desirable about them I found a few on gun broker. Here's an example Link granted that has original box but still. And on the subject of your post... I remember you said you used to live in Buffalo, were you around for our buybacks? That's a useless pr stunt, every year on the news you see they hauled off non working crap.
Only guns that get sold at buy backs are broken and stolen. The few working guns traded are those that granddad left in the closet when he passed and the like. The PR stunt that does nothing to improve safety.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/08/02/did-gun-control-work-in-australia/
Gosh that is so retarded. What a terrible waste of money. Most of these guns are ones that the owner just doesn't give a damn about at all anymore, not the illegal kind that you actually want off the streets.I went to one that the cops were having in front of a Wal-Mart. $200 no questions asked for a rifle or pistol. I was going to turn in a old piece of crap 22 rifle that would often jamb when fired, take the $200 and buy a new 22 rifle @Wal-Mart since I was already there. I arrived 30 minutes after it started and they were already out of the allotted 10,000. I looked at the guns that had bought back and every one of them was a piece of crap like I was going to turn in. It looked like some of the people selling guns were pawn shop owners unloading worthless pawn shop inventory.
I went to one that the cops were having in front of a Wal-Mart. $200 no questions asked for a rifle or pistol. I was going to turn in a old piece of crap 22 rifle that would often jamb when fired, take the $200 and buy a new 22 rifle @Wal-Mart since I was already there. I arrived 30 minutes after it started and they were already out of the allotted 10,000. I looked at the guns that had bought back and every one of them was a piece of crap like I was going to turn in. It looked like some of the people selling guns were pawn shop owners unloading worthless pawn shop inventory.
Sounds about right. Feel-good smoke and mirrors that accomplishes nothing.Gosh that is so retarded. What a terrible waste of money. Most of these guns are ones that the owner just doesn't give a damn about at all anymore, not the illegal kind that you actually want off the streets.
Gosh that is so retarded. What a terrible waste of money. Most of these guns are ones that the owner just doesn't give a damn about at all anymore, not the illegal kind that you actually want off the streets.