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Group offers to buy back guns (Denver)
thedenverdailynews.com ^ | 11/14/2008 | Peter Marcus

Posted on 12/05/2008 6:50:57 AM PST by CodeToad

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To: RedStateRocker

We could offer a $500 per ear as proof to collect the bounty. But if we did the gangbangers would all do the VanGogh bit.


21 posted on 12/05/2008 7:11:42 AM PST by reg45
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To: WayneS

Actually, I meant “sick” as a compliment, as in a sick sense of humor, of which I am often accused of having.


22 posted on 12/05/2008 7:17:10 AM PST by Daveinyork
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To: CodeToad

—more—

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2143391/posts


23 posted on 12/05/2008 7:17:38 AM PST by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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To: Daveinyork

Okay. Gotcha!

;^)


24 posted on 12/05/2008 7:18:28 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: reg45

That’s about it... Yep.


25 posted on 12/05/2008 7:19:59 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: CodeToad
“We think that it’s fear and people overreacting, but in no way does Sen. Obama intend to take anybody’s guns away,” he said. “What we’re talking about are the Saturday night specials and the illegal and illicit use of the guns, not to defend, but to kill, maim and hurt.”

What are Saturday Night Specials? The term is loosely used to describe an inexpensive handgun, usually made from pot metal and chambered in a lower caliber. The significance of his statement is the affordability of this type of gun quite often makes it the only self-defense option for the poor. Is he saying that we disarm the poor first?

26 posted on 12/05/2008 7:22:05 AM PST by Niteranger68 (You can't force me to create your wealth.)
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To: CodeToad
Can anyone explain to me why these futile attempts at getting guns away from those "who have no business owning one in the first place" are called "buy-backs"?

Buying something back implies the seller is doing a favor for the buyer, as when a jeweler offers to buy back an engagement ring if things don't work out.

Did any member of the group organizing this event sell the guns initially?

Even better, did all the people who will be turning in a firearm to collect their $50 actually buy it?

Related to the last question, will the police check the serial numbers on all the guns turned in against a list of stolen weapons, or would that be too much work?

Of course, no self-respecting reporter could be expected to ask these kinds of questions. Just write the story, then a follow-up with a photo of a big stack of guns.

27 posted on 12/05/2008 7:27:26 AM PST by logician2u
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To: CodeToad
“We’re tired of our kids dying, we’re tired of our community being shed with blood — do something, shut up, stop complaining,”

 

Well they could just start snitching . That would be more productive than any Buy Back Program

28 posted on 12/05/2008 7:29:22 AM PST by grjr21
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To: CodeToad

I announced this as a gun buy program. I mean $50? “Hey, kid, I’ll give you $100 for that piece!” See what I mean.

It seems to me that this is a gun show by legal definition and requires NICS checks for all purchases.


29 posted on 12/05/2008 7:37:21 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: CodeToad
Group offers to buy back guns (Denver)

Seller's remorse for having sold them in tne first place?

30 posted on 12/05/2008 7:37:55 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: CodeToad
“We’re tired of our kids dying, we’re tired of our community being shed with blood — do something, shut up, stop complaining,” said Simmons at a news conference yesterday in front of the statue of Martin Luther King, Jr. in City Park. “We voted, now we’ve got to get those guns out of the hands of all these criminals.

Don't they usually do this sort of thing at City Hall? They must have figured out where the problem lies...

31 posted on 12/05/2008 7:44:00 AM PST by Kenton (All vices in moderation. I don't want to overdo any but I don't want to skip any either.)
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Colorado statute 12-26.1-106 states:

(3) “Gun show” means the entire premises provided for an event or function, including but not limited to parking areas for the event or function, that is sponsored to facilitate, in whole or in part, the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or collection of firearms at which:

(a) twenty-five or more firearms are offered or exhibited for sale, transfer, or exchange; or

(b) not less than three gun show vendors exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange firearms.

(4) “Gun show promoter” means a person who organizes or operates a gun show.

(5) “Gun show vendor” means any person who exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges, any firearm at a gun show, regardless of whether the person arranges with a gun show promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange any firearm.

This activist group is a gun show under Colorado law.

The statutes continue:

12-26.1-101. Background checks at gun shows - penalty.

(1) Before a gun show vendor transfers or attempts to transfer a firearm at a gun show, he or she shall:

(a) require that a background check, in accordance with section 24-33.5-424, C.R.S., be conducted of the prospective transferee; and

(b) obtain approval of a transfer from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation after a background check has been requested by a licensed gun dealer, in accordance with section 24-33.5-424, C.R.S.

(2) A gun show promoter shall arrange for the services of one or more licensed gun dealers on the premises of the gun show to obtain the background checks required by this article.

(3) If any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show, no firearm shall be transferred unless a background check has been obtained by a licensed gun dealer.

(4) Any person violating the provisions of this section commits a class 1 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S.


32 posted on 12/05/2008 7:45:44 AM PST by CodeToad
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To: WayneS
Another decrepit-looking fellow was waiting to turn what looked to be a WWI vintage S&W .38 (the one with the lanyard loop on the bottom of the grip), for a $50 gift card.

I remember reading a story some years ago about an elderly guy who turned in a pristine WWII vintage rifle during a buyback program, not realizing that it was worth a lot more than that, not just monetarily, but to his son as well. Well, his son tried to get the police department to return it, but their barf-worthy response was "this program was to get guns off the streets, the weapon will be destroyed along with all the others to make sure it doesn't end up back on the street." Yeah, because people get held up with vintage Springfield M1903's all the time...
33 posted on 12/05/2008 7:58:27 AM PST by messierhunter
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Then why are the guns being destroyed instead of re-sold to law-abiding citizens?

Don't worry; I'm sure that any quality pieces will end up in a cop's private collection or a local gunshop.

34 posted on 12/05/2008 7:59:14 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("If one cannot learn from the mistakes of others, one might as well become a Democrat."--E. Friesner)
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To: CodeToad

Hey, can anybody do this? What an awesome idea!

I put a small ad in the paper advertising a gun buyback. I’ll, I mean my organization, will pay anybody $50 to turn in their gun.

All to keep mean guns off the street and out of the hands of children!


35 posted on 12/05/2008 8:09:29 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: VeniVidiVici
..and IN my gun cabinets...

I LIKE it.

Let's form an organization.

Citizens Responding Against Street Shootings (CRASS), and start our OWN buy-back programs in all 50 states.

We will simply destroy the junk guns, but KEEP the good ones (and there are always a FEW good ones turned in by dumb-a$$es).

We'll have awesome(er) gun collections in NO TIME.

36 posted on 12/05/2008 8:22:31 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th)
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To: o_zarkman44

I have a bunch of pipe and nails in my garage - think they would be willing to pay $50 for each section of pipe and nail set I put together? Could probably crank out dozens in time?


37 posted on 12/05/2008 8:25:24 AM PST by rigelkentaurus
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To: WayneS
Citizens Responding Against Street Shootings (CRASS), and start our OWN buy-back programs in all 50 states.

LOL! Maybe we could also go international and buyback all the AKs on the streets in the Mideast. :)

38 posted on 12/05/2008 8:47:29 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (All hail the Obamasiah! Kneel before Obamohammad!)
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To: RetiredArmy
"$50 for my gun? Sorry dude, I ain’t selling. It cost nearly $950 for my AR15. Give me $1,700 and it is yours. Then I will take the $1,700 and buy two new ones. Your move Denver."

I am assuming you are being charitable here as you would still have to shell out a couple hundred more bucks...

39 posted on 12/05/2008 9:19:17 AM PST by EnigmaticAnomaly ("Democrats: Seeking an easy life at someone else's expense for 150 years")
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

Nope. Bought my AR 15 on sale for that amount.


40 posted on 12/05/2008 1:32:05 PM PST by RetiredArmy (NOTE TO REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS: PLAY THE CONSERVATIVE CARD!!!)
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