Private Buyers at Dallas Gun Buyback Find Great Deals on Firearms

Private Buyers at Dallas Gun Buyback Find Great Deals on Firearms
Private Buyers at Dallas Gun Buyback Find Great Deals on Firearms

Pictured below are a dozen of the firearms purchased by private buyers at the Dallas event on October 21, 2023.

Private buyers at the Dallas gun turn-in event, also known by the Orwellian term “buyback,” were able to purchase numerous firearms at bargain prices. The gift cards ran out in the first hour, and the first ten vehicles in line. Before then, prices tended to be a bit higher than the value of gift cards offered. After the cards ran out, prices tended to drop. There were about a dozen private buyers at the event. Some purchased items other than guns. One person purchased an 870 shotgun barrel. Another hauled off several hundred rounds of ammunition for very little or nothing.  It appeared to this correspondent the private purchasers all purchased more than one firearm. One purchased at least a dozen firearms.

One of the best deals of the event was the purchase of a minty pre-ban Colt SP-1 (AR-15). In the picture, it does not have a magazine. This correspondent has learned a magazine came with it. The magazine was a classic 20-round mag loaded with 5.56 period ammunition stamped 1982.

Colt SP-1 (AR-15)
Colt SP-1 (AR-15)

Another great deal was this S&W classic and minty-looking model 36. Handguns predominated, as only $100 worth of gift cards were offered for handguns.

S&W Model 36
S&W Model 36

Below is a WWII-era Enfield revolver in .38/200 (same case as .38 S&W) not .38 Special. The three other pistols were ignored. The Enfield was purchased for $60, because the owner said it was jammed and could not be unloaded. As this correspondent is familiar with the type, he was able to unload it for the purchaser. It was very stiff with over-applications of oil without cleaning.

WWII-era Enfield revolver in .38/200
WWII-era Enfield revolver in .38/200

This private buyer was happy with his Browning-designed pump shotgun. The Model 520 Stevens was also made as the Ranger Model 30 for Sears, the Western Field Model 30 for Wards, the Riverside Arms Model 520 and the  J.C. Higgins 102.25. They are all the same design. The shotgun has an interesting takedown mechanism. The level of machining would cost thousands today. Some parts are getting difficult to find.  The Stevens 620 has a slightly different profile, but is the same internally.

Model 520 Stevens
Model 520 Stevens

The Marlin Model 60 below is the desirable variant with the longer barrel and magazine to match. The magazine holds 18 rounds. This version of the model 60 was defined as an “assault weapon” in New Jersey for several years.

Enfield no. 4 MK I rifles with complete original wood are getting hard to come by. The improvised sling is not original.

Enfield no. 4 MK I rifles
Marlin Model 60 & Enfield no. 4 MK I rifles

This Taurus PT 92 AFS-D variant did not have a magazine. The price was $100.  Serial numbers are blotted out for privacy.

Taurus PT 92 AFS-D
Taurus PT 92 AFS-D

High Standard derringers are no longer produced. They have always had a following and command good prices today.

High Standard derringers
High Standard derringers

The classic Colt revolver is in the less common .32-20 caliber. It is missing the end cap for the ejector rod and has had the barrel cut down and a non-standard sight installed.

Colt revolver is in the less common .32-20 caliber
Colt revolver is in the less common .32-20 caliber

After all the cards were handed out and the event closed down, this near-new Hi-Point 9mm came in. It was purchased for $20. In this correspondent’s experience, they may be clunky, but they work.

Hi-Point 9mm
Hi-Point 9mm

The last gun brought in and purchased, as far as this correspondent knows, was this Browning .380 model 10/71. The large sights and thumb rest were added to the originally sleek design to allow for importation after the 1968 Gun Control Act.

Browning .380 Model 10/71
Browning .380 Model 10/71

This sample is far from complete. It gives an idea of what was available at the Dallas gun turn-in event on October 21, 2023.


About Dean Weingarten:

Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of Constitutional Carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.

Dean Weingarten

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Duane

Private sales the check valve against registration and confiscation.

Chief Acid Rain

Which is why they want UBC.

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

As if private sales wouldn’t still go on. “They” can KMA!

GomeznSA

GA – there is another piece to the background checks – somehow the bats will manage to assess a ‘transfer fee’ or just add on sales tax.

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

Ghost guns = end of gun control.

Colt

The High Standard is boss..
geeze, maybe I’ll host a gun buy back program.

Chief Acid Rain

Tesla drivers giving back guns? Whooda thunk it?

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

LOL!

zipgun44mag

Seeing how this nation for the most part, was created using “ghost guns”, we all have to remember that the RKBA was fully established by the 1775 Patriots and the standards they set for same.
Any American who is not prohibited by a criminal record, should have free will to buy from anyone.

Norm

I agree with you, but “should” is only a nice word in many parts of this US.

Orion

our Second Amendment mentions no restrictions on individuals with legal histories more so, the Bill of Rights specifically lists protections for all citizens; Free Persons.

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

Free simply meaning not in a CAGE!

Logician

And what crimes would curtail gun ownership?? Spitting on the sidewalk? The 2A is an all or nothing proposition.

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

“Any American who is not prohibited by a criminal record,” I remember reading that right after “SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED”. Yeah, it was in really really tiny letters. How about going back to the way it was before 1968? If you were in a CAGE you weren’t allowed to have possession of a weapon. After you were “rehabilitated” and deemed fit to go back into society, you were given back the gun you were carrying when they arrested you for robbing a bank…so what happened to THAT kind of justice? And explain to all of us just what kind of… Read more »

Bubba

Everyone even criminals should have the right to bear arms and vote. Once their sentence is completed.

Historical precedent shows when they got out of jail the were given their guns back.

gregs

i wish they would have some buybacks near where i live.

Vince

State sponsored gun bazaars?

Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

Our country is loaded with pretty dumb people who are willing to run around in this day and age without some sort of self defense pistol or revolver. I guess they trust the guy with the badge to “protect” them to death if the need ever arises. If they actually believe that the profession that is only at a violent crime 1% of the time is going to be of any help..well they need help. The kind you get while lying in a chair talking to a guy with a notepad and a prescription med waiting for you.

Ricky

Could really use one of those here in WY

WeWereWarned

Sir, you guys have segregation between civilized folks and the third world. You guys did not have all your urban areas ruined by conservatives using religion to say all cultures were equal, then White flighting when reality came knocking.

You guys dont have to blame the guns for the violent communities, like what gun buy backs are meant to do.

jj

You selling a gun at a ‘buyback’ to solve gun crime is like you getting castrated because there are too many kids being born.

GomeznSA

Had I known about it soon enough I might have made the 4hr drive (each way) in hopes of scoring something, I have a few extra greenbacks set aside just in case.
Those events get little advance notice outside of the local area. OTOH there have been suggestions to hold one in my fair city but our ‘esteemed’ mayor – who claims he is an ‘independent’ (sure he is – insert eyeroll) realizes that it would be an exercise in futility to hold one and the chief of police is against it as well

Ledesma

Since when are buyback weapons resold? The Dallas event is certainly good news. But it’s an absolute anomaly.

Last edited 11 months ago by Ledesma
Courageous Lion - Hear Me Roar - Jus Meum Tuebor

“The government” AKA PSYCHOPATHIC control freak PARASITES.