Compensation was as variable as anything else. An individual police officer I knew encouraged me to round up any guns or gun parts to hand in, or even to manufacture guns from pipe and other materials, as his station was paying out around $150 on anything that vagely resembled a gun. I saw some of the items surrendered, and they were obviously home made, unsafe, and in most cases were not capable of being fired. Even barrels were taken for $50 to $100 (just the barrel, nothing attached, sometimes just half of barrels as in 30" shotgun made into 20" coach gun, 10" barrels =$50 on surrendor.) One he showed me consisted of a length of water pipe with a door bolt in it, atached to a rough cut piece of 1" plank with pluming sadles. No trigger or firing pin at all, $50 paid.

In the case of myself, close friends and family in my area, compensation was paid for any firearm surrendered, including single shot, bolt, lever or pump rifles. The amounts were average, some got good money - my brother for example surendered several SKS in very poor condition (he bought them from shooters who had neglected them and I made them work again - and yes they will stop if abused enough)On average he paid $25 each, and was given $400 on surrender. On the other side a close friend passed in his Ruger mini-14 with extra stock and all accesories, complete with licenced dealer valuation aproaching $2500, and was give $1400. Option of appeal was there, but he did not persue it past the first exchange of letters.

In my brothers case he held many many rounds of 7.62X39 ammunition, which was not compensated if surrendered, and ended up buying a chineses bolt action to use it up in.

The entire episode still makes me bitter, and I doubt that will change.