Collectors Find Rare Weapons at Gun Buyback Programs

Even with an idea as dim as “gun buyback”
schemes, the market shines
through.

From Fox News:

When Schuyler Taylor attended a gun buyback program in
Seattle last year, he wasn’t hoping to turn in an unwanted firearm
for a $50 gift card. He was looking to pay cold cash for a rare
weapon.

Taylor, a 24-year-old gun enthusiast, is one of a growing number of
collectors who has been showing up at the events, where towns,
police departments, churches and nonprofits offer money or gift
cards for old guns. The events have been held all over the country,
credited by some for getting weapons off the streets and ridiculed
by others for paying money for rusting junk. But collectors have
taken notice that some of the guns, which are typically destroyed,
are worth far more than they fetch at buyback events.

It was going to happen. If any of our readers have done this,
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