Well I could buy a bunch of used .22 rimfire guns for like $50-100 each, and turn them in for $200 each, and make a nice profit. Maybe that's why some people turn them in, to make a few bucks? I bought a used Win. 30-30 about 5-6yrs back for $100. If I needed the $, I 'd turn it in for $200. The $20 airgun thing is rediculous. It goes to show you that NYC officials have no clue that many airguns cost as much or more than firearms. So people turn in their old pumpers they paid $39.99 for (I still have a couple of those) for. Do you think they will turn in some decent Springers and PCP's? It's a joke. I suppose some widow or someone out there might turn in an antique Colt .45 or a nice handgun their late husband or grandfather owned. I wouldn't doubt it for a mintue. A friend of mine bought a WWI Springfield rifle for $300 of a lady whose husband had died and she just wanted to get rid of it. He sold it for $1,150 on eBay and that was a few years ago. He also got an M14 rifle for some rediculous price about 6-7yrs ago and quadrippled his $ on that one too.
Moral of the story? Keep a log or hang tags on your guns with the value & other ifo, so your wives don't give them away for nothing in case you are gone! hehe
Oh sorry to hear about the gun registration laws in Canada. It's similar here but we don't have to keep registering them. In the state I live in, you register the firearm at the time you purchase it.. ie: you fill out the form at the gun shop or Sporting Goods store you 're buying it at, and you have to show 2 forms of ID that match, including a driver license. If not, they won't hand over the gun to you. It's not much different from Canada except they are trying to make $ over there, and screwed it all up by making it too beaurocratic and complex to administer, that they lost $ on it. It's the government.. what do you expect? They can't reliably run anything themselves.. not efficiently anyway. I was down in NYC 19yrs ago trying to get a beer license for my Deli. They had 8-9 people behind the counter and only 1 person was helping people at the counter and processing the 15-page application. The others were doing nothing. 2 women were doing their nails, and the phones were ringing off the hook and noone was answering them!! It drove me crazy watching that for 5-6hrs, and the line was wrapped around the hallway outside. I was waiting for someone to go postal and start shooting some of those women behind the counter that did nothing but BS and gossip with each other. At one point the supervisor was working by himself for like 2hrs while everyone else took a 2hr lunch. I 'm sure it's not like that anymore since Bloomberg took over as Mayor of NYC, but I still see that here with local town & county government. The Federal government can't be much different.
