They got one gun turned it, but it "made a statement".
to make the streets safer, guns should be handed out
On opening day of deer season in WI there are more armed people in the woods than there were in Kuwait during Desert Storm I.
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Chew a pop-tart into the shape of a gun and turn it in.
Wow, what a successful gun buyback. Just one gun turned in means that we have eliminated all the illegal guns from the streets of Madison. It’s time to declare victory and lay off the Police Department.
These always buy backs puzzle me: How can they ‘buy’ back firearms without a FFL license. No Form 4473 is filled out by the buyer. Is that not illegal?
Re: No private buyers at the Madistan sale.
Law-abiders here in Lib-Town are a’skeered of guns and would rather be raped, robbed or murdered than own one.
And, our few local gun dealers know that the illegals and gang-bangers imported from Chicago and Minneapolis, are NOT giving up the goods! ;)
As a owner of many guns I see these buy backs as a great opportunity to get a few bucks for old broken down unsafe weapons that you could not get five bucks for at a pawn shop.
Hey, I've got a broken Remington 12 GA I should turn in. I mean sure, to the untrained eye it looks fine, seems to operate safely and fire when the trigger is pulled. But it is surely broken. The {expletive} thing just will not hit any geese... ;-) I'm sure it is the gun's fault. After all, if they are to blame for killing people, they must similarly be to blame for missing game. Right?
One too many.
I don’t know how it’s done today, but in the early days there was a strong ‘don’t ask’ questions of the folks turning in the guns. It was widely known these were great events for crooks to get money for inferior guys they had stolen from homes - so they could use the money to buy better weapons. Pawn shops were watched but not ‘buy back’ events...
Now there is a stupid idea and a waste of money.
If you are going to give away gun locks with the idea of increasing the safety of the public the last people to which I would give away a gun lock is to a registered gun owner.
They are the people most likely to be already practicing good safe firearm handling and storage.
If you want to get gun locks in to the hands of those that need them, give them to unregistered gun owners. In other words anyone who ask.