Some glorious individual decided to take a duffel bag full of improvised slam-fire shotguns (of legal length) to a local gun buyback which was offering $50 for each gun handed in.
Unfortunately on this occasion the officer manning the table was apparently instantly confused by the bag of pipes before him and cash was not offered. In some instances however, as high as $300 has apparently been given in exchange for such contraptions made from $6 worth of pipe.
With a little more creativity and some black spray paint, something a little more scary wouldn’t have taken much more effort. I’m sure cutting out a convincing shotgun style stock, wrapping it in trash bags and electrical tape and adding a hinge to the barrel would have passed for a typical criminal’s beat up stolen single-shot.
This little .22 pistol was apparently exchanged for a $100 gift card back in June.
– See more at: http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2014/11/17/handing-zip-guns-buy-backs/#sthash.CE3gKJyp.FG5RtRWj.dpuf
What a great deal. You make a zip gun from a block of wood and junk pipe for less than $5, and receive $50 in a buy back program. This must be one of the jobs that Obama claims to have created for the unemployed in our inner cities.
It sounds similar to the “Cash for Clunkers” program that Obama created. I had a 1986 Ford that I paid $550 for, 9-years before this Cash for Clunker program started. I received $4500 in trade-in value to buy a new Toyota. Now that’s a bargain! 🙂
I got a lot of flack from my work associates because I bought a foreign car. However, I pointed out that my car was built in Tennessee — not Mexico, where many American car parts are manufactured before being assembled in the USA.