Rocket launcher returned as part of Baltimore gun buyback
By Tal Axelrod
A rocket launcher was one of over a thousand weapons that have been collected as part of Baltimore’s gun buyback program.
Three buyback events have been held thus far, with the first two yielding 1,089 firearms. The weapons include 509 handguns, 273 rifles, 245 shotguns and a rocket launcher, for which the city paid $500, according to The Baltimore Sun.
This way to the egress.
This started out as an FGS for Thursday, but I just couldn’t stop snickering and here it is. The rest of this, ahh, article may be scoffed at here: The Hill.
Category: "Teh Stoopid"
I wish I had an empty rocket launcher tube to sell them for $500!
Then I could buy that Sig 365 I’ve been wanting.
I do have a jam o matic pistol I cannot in good conscience sell to someone.
I hope to unload it on the government if they ever do one of those here in South Florida
Some PVC pipe, black and green paint and ta-dah! Rocket launcher.
Home Depot, here I come!!!!!
Can neither confirm nor deny knowing anyone who has one of those, but have heard it is one sweet little thing. Or read it somewhere. Maybe it was a dream.
They were difficult to find for a while, weren’t they? Should be easier now, a bit after the fact. That, and the 320 would be on my wish list, if I had such a thing.
Evidently my area was infected by the boating accident bug going around TAH a while back. There just aren’t any of those scary things wishing to turn themselves in to one of those buy back events.
It would be interesting to determine if gun theft goes up following the announcement of these buy backs. Hmmmm. If someone has reported their gun/s stolen, are they returned to them if they turn up at the buy back? Here’s another opportunity for some enterprising youngster to get a grant to study this issue.
IF ONLY I hadn’t been walking through some swampy ground with all of my guns in a wagon I was pulling when I walked RIGHT into some quicksand…
Hope you aren’t as lucky as Oracle, who got a lifetime supply of whiskey when the quicksand pit spit the wagons back up.
They paid 500 bucks for it because everyone knows an expended rocket launcher tube scores much higher than a AR on the “scary looking weapon and potential emotional harm index”.
Well, that and it’s Baltimore, AKA
MoronCharm City.America’s Beirut!
Bloodymore, Murderland. Highest per capita homicides in the nation.
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I’ve got a bucket full of junk pistols that I would love to unload in a “buyback”. Unfortunately, in most of the Midwest, the people are too smart to run a dumba$$ thing like a “buyback”.
One could buy a junky old Lorcin pistol and sell at a profit!
Bet St. Louis will do one sooner rather than later.
Or Memphis. Or maybe even Austin.
I love the “not on the streets” argument.
None of these weapons were being used in crimes. How dumb would you have to be to turn in a weapon used in a crime? I know that some criminals are pretty dumb, but that is a level of dumb reserved for politicians who give taxpayer money away to buy firearms…
Most of these “buybacks” are on a no-questions-asked basis. It’s the perfect place to turn in a gun used in a crime. It’s nearly absolution.
But the criminals who know the police will check all these weapons against previous crimes aren’t going to give up their crime-committing firearms to the police.
Guarantee that after the buyback, they’ll catalogue every serial number, do forensic scrubs, fingerprint them, etc. Remember, the police can lie to you. You can’t lie to them.
And if they don’t do all that to these firearms, they are as stupid as a gun buyback program.
I wouldn’t be surprised if 25%+ of these firearms are stolen
I wonder if anyone has been arrested for illegally carry a concealed weapon while heading to the buy-back site. Better still, I wonder how many defendants will claim that was where they were heading when they were popped. I bet there is no exception in state law for carrying the weapon to the buy-back site, making everyone who does so a potential arrestee. Bad news for my friend with the dummy grenades. There is no price for explosive devices, so leave your homemade nukes at home.
This woman did it right!
https://www.foxnews.com/us/woman-turns-in-gun-at-baltimore-gun-buyback-progam-to-upgrade-to-better-weapon
She was up front about why she was there, and it’s a damn good reason to participate.
One photo showed a box full of “guns” turned in and off the streets. They all appeared to be airsoft/BB pistols. And my used M72 LAW tubes in my mancave are worth more than $500 to me.
Now they wouldn’t exaggerate the take by salting the picture with airlifts, would they?
I can’t wait to see the picture of that “Blue Rocket Launcher” they bought for 500 bucks….
I’ve got some old coke bottle lying around that the grandkids used to launch bottle rockets.
Am I sitting on a potential gold mine???
Hey, if I paint my old laser tag gun black and add some spiffy decals to it, does anyone think I could get $500 for it?
If so, let me know the next time someone has a fat cash buyback like that.
You cannot find an Astronaut at Cape Canaveral around 12 noon because they are all out to Launch. Yuk Yuk
Dude. You need to write Popsicle jokes
AT-4 can’t even be reloaded, but don’t let that stop you from forking over $500 for it!
IIRC, someone pulled this in CA a while back as well.
Several times. I fully believe that some law enforcement agencies share those items or pull out stock images.
Neither can an M-72 LAW, but these “buy back” clowns in LEO ops love to parrot this bunk to the media for the headlines, because your average clueless citizen is ignorant about the fact that they are as dangerous as a piece of PVC drain pipe.
Damn. I should have gone down to the surplus store, bought all of their empty AT-4 tubes for $14.99 each and then sell them for $500. What a way to make money!
All the chicks would go for you if you kept a rocket like that in you pocket.
*groan*
One per post, please!
I have ammo cans with nasty words on them like .50 cal and “links” and “ball” and “cartridges” and they look all Army and stuff.
Maybe I’m sitting on a gold mine.
Hack Stone was at one of the bulk stores a week and some change ago, and they were selling “ammo cans” for $20 a pop. Or, you could enlist in the military, get stuck policing the range, and “acquire” a few genuine ammo cans.
Army/Navy Surplus store used to sell dummy frag grenades. I have a friend who bought some. I wonder if he should take a day trip to Baltimore and unload them, so to speak. I might even offer to make the trip for him.
do any of you remember the old pvc spud guns for shooting potatoes? hmmmm i have a blowgun that is made to shoot marshmallows… the possibilities are endless. oh what about those guns that shoot rubber bands…
How much is the Baltimore going rate for hand grenade pin rings?
Those things can put an eye out. I’m guessing they’re going for $20/pin.
So would it be legal to hang around the periphery of the gun buy back with cash, offering better deals than the police?
“The cops will give you a $500 gift card for that. I’ll give you $525. Cash, not a gift card for Outback.”
Asking for a friend
Pics or it never happened.
They don’t want to show the picture of the green painted PVC pipe with “AT-4 Rocket Launcher!” written on it in Sharpie.
Did he perform the 10 prefire checks before turning it in?