This is actually a very common outcome with gun buybacks. I've seen tale of cops running buybacks and picking through the antiques that show up, taking home the valuable ones.
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I mean, I understand that. Used to work a grocery store cash register. One day, one or two of our penny rolls were loaded with wheat pennies and Indian pennies. I even got my one and only steel penny that day. Shame that they were probably stolen and hawked or sold in tough times.
*hocked
But yeah
Although honestly it doesn't really make sense to use a collectible penny as currency these days, as 1¢ is worth so little as to be effectively insignificant now.
In the past, though, I definitely did cash in old collected dollar and half-dollar coins because of my desire to eat.
hocked
Til a new synonym for pawned
Also, most of what's turned in is absolute crap. All you have to present is the receiver, that's the "gun". Seen pics where they cops were bragging about their haul, loads of non-functional, incomplete, rusty crap.
Said this many times and took a beating here and on reddit: Gun buy backs are a fucking joke. I've got 3 or 4 pieces of shit I'd gladly ditch to get paid.
The last one left from her collection of hundreds of rifles
Her antique-rifle-smashing hobby was expensive, but very satisfying!
You can't buy back what you never owned.
Cops love when law abiding citizens disarm themselves, they make for easier targets.
This makes me sad, it absolutely should be in a museum.
If it makes you feel any better, the gun ultimately wasn't destroyed; if memory serves, the local department returned the gun to the owner and told them to sell it to a collector, because it was way too valuable just to junk.