Quote Originally Posted by bighit View Post
The same ad's appeared in the free ad's when they announced the scottish airgun license . They went along the lines of " £10 for a pistol and £20 for a rifle If you hand them in you will get nothing from the police , so make few quid and sell them to me "


As said above they are scaremongering and chancing their luck.
I have to agree they are chancing their luck and scaremongering a bit, but nevertheless what is quoted above was indeed true. I am sure quite a few people who handed guns into the police would have rather had something than nothing.