New level of gun “buyback”
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March 17th, 2015 at 7:32 pm
If I could weld I’d build a new gun.
March 17th, 2015 at 7:42 pm
Need to add the next step: Use welding training to build new guns.
March 17th, 2015 at 8:51 pm
Seriously,
1) buy a high point
2) turn in for training
3) build a MP5
Win
March 17th, 2015 at 9:37 pm
I wonder how many will complete the program?
Hopefully it will be 100%.
If I was under thirty, in the area, and had a so-so job, I’d buy a gun to turn in and get into the program. Welders make good money, and the skills are used nationwide. It is a skill and career that you can use to get into the middle-class.
March 18th, 2015 at 2:54 am
I work as designer/drafter in a manufacturing plant. This is a bargain. The “buy a high point ” trade it in scholars are spot on. I paid a couple grand to get my welding cert. This is a bargain.
March 18th, 2015 at 8:41 am
Yup. Who doesn’t have a shitty old nearly worthless .22 rifle they could trade for a welding cert? I sure as hell could find one. You know, the one your uncle left in a fleece case for a year and it rusted so he gave it to you?
The union is wrong about “guns are bad, Mkay” but this is a great deal.
March 18th, 2015 at 9:40 am
Turn in a gun for a six-month welding program? Sounds like a great deal.
The Union welding cert will belong to the union (a little trick they use to keep you in closed shops), but you can pay between $100-$400 to re-test at an AWS accreditation center and then get listed nationally in by the American Welding Society log as certified. Then you can work anywhere, no union required.
I work a desk job but took an AWS cert class, because I figured if I was going to weld I might as well do it right. I didn’t test because I didn’t need a cert, but probably will anyway because, “why not?”
I put this buy-back deal in the same league as the $250 gift card deals for “high-cap” mag turn-ins: a great deal if you can get it.
March 18th, 2015 at 10:30 am
how much union money will go to this program? I can think of a lot of better ways to spend money to train new union members. If I was in this union, I’d be pissed at the waste of funds.
March 18th, 2015 at 1:17 pm
I’ve got three revolvers (a .32RF, and two .22 shorts) that my dad found in a burned-out cabin in the 70’s that are just waiting for a good deal like this.
March 18th, 2015 at 4:24 pm
Oy. First; you need a welder of some kind before you can weld, right? Right. So buy a welder. Chances are a factory rep, or the local retailer, or any of a large number of people, would be more than happy to show you how to use it. I bet there are even tutorials on youtube.
March 18th, 2015 at 5:29 pm
rd: agreed.
If the Pipefitters locals are willing to spot me free training, I’ll go find a lorcin or some other broken piece of crap to trade in.
Or hell, I’ll make a slam-fire twelve gauge out of pipe and turn that in. https://youtu.be/7Va87gB_4AI