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That IS really sad and I bet that it has happened to some widows, widowers and their relatives.Don't forget the women whose husbands passed on, and they have literally NO IDEA of the value of his treasured 1911, just sitting there unused. Truly wonder how many WW2 .45s got "dropped off" yeah, for not even a full tank of juice?
LAME & SAD
I bet that the NICE GUNS got sold or taken and they were not destroyed. I think that some police departments used to AUCTION them off even though they had some buy backs.
Side note:
Years ago, they showed some TURN IN GUNS in one state and the guns in the pictures that I saw were really nice - quite a few of them but NOT all of them.
They did have some guys/gals make up guns with pipe and ADD some other things to it so that it looked like a gun but it was NOT a gun. They got a gift certificate or cash money even if it was JUNK too.
They had a bunch of kids guns, supposedly TOY guns, but they did LOOK REAL like a regular gun that took regular ammunition.
I hate to use the word toy here but you know what I mean. They got MONEY or a gift certificate for them too.
So it was a CASH or card deal and many states ran these programs. I used to see them posted a LOT on many old forums. Some guys in some states would go to them and talk to the people WAITING IN LINE and offer them MORE MONEY for their TURN IN GUNS since it was legal in many states at the time and it still is legal in many states. NOT in all of them though.
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