Gun buyback off to brisk start in Volusia as deputies collect 20 firearms (FL)

news-journalonline.com ^ | 16 August, 2012 | PATRICIO G. BALONA

[marktwain]

The Central Florida Crimeline Kicks 4 Guns Program to remove unwanted firearms from streets and homes started early for the Volusia County Sheriff's Office this morning.

"As the command center opened at 7 a.m., we had our first customer from New Smyrna Beach turning in a 16 gauge shotgun," said sheriff's spokesman Gary Davidson.

In Daytona Beach, gun owners can stop by the Dickerson Center at 308 S. Martin Luther King Blvd. Walmart gift cards will be offered there as well.

[marktwain]

Pictures at the site show a $300 Smith & Wesson and a $300 shotgun being turned in for $50 gift certificates.

Political theater designed to delegitimize armed citizens. The only practical effects are to defraud widows, increase demand for new firearms, and waste police resources.

[bicyclerepair]

What kind of maroon exchanges ANY gun for a $50 gift card?

Can’t fix stupid I guess. It’s how we got Øbozo

[mountainlion]

300,000 guns in the USA and 20 is a “brisk start”?
More like a berserk start.

[Joe Brower]

What's the deal with Florida and all these gun 'buy backs' lately? The FDLE get a bunch of Fed/Chinese money lately? This is the third one I've heard about in the last two weeks.

Florida Freeper

[riverrunner]

Shouldn’t you add another zero to that 300000.

[texson66]

I’d like stand outside with a few hundred dollars and offer to buy the firearm before it falls into the hands of the polezi!

[texson66]

I’d like stand outside with a few hundred dollars and offer to buy the firearm before it falls into the hands of the polezi!

[cuban leaf]

I’d like stand outside with a few hundred dollars and offer to buy the firearm before it falls into the hands of the polezi!

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IIRC, that has actually been done at some of these gun buybacks.

[cuban leaf]

300,000 guns in the USA and 20 is a “brisk start”?

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I assumed the title was sarcasm. Wasn’t it?

[marktwain]

They need another three zeros.

320,000,000 private guns in the United States.

[mountainlion]

Shouldn’t you add another zero to that 300000.

That should be 300 million, 300,000,000 guns in the USA.

[marktwain]

I assumed the title was sarcasm. Wasn’t it?

No sarcasm. They mean it. To show that they are serious about their propaganda, they do not allow comments.

[SECURE AMERICA]

300,000 guns in the USA and 20 is a “brisk start”?
More like a berserk start.

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The estimated total number of guns held by civilians in the United States is 270,000,000
You are a bunch of zero’s short there!

[smokingfrog]

Why not just take your unwanted guns to a pawn shop?

[marktwain]

Many pawn shops offer next to nothing for guns, especially if they think the person pawning the gun is ignorant.

I learned of a lady who took two heirloom guns to a pawn shop and was offered $10. She took them to a dealer friend who put them on gunbroker. They brought in over $300.

[GregoTX]

I prefer the term “Confiscation Compensation” over “Gun Buyback”

[Fido969]

customer from New Smyrna Beach turning in a 16 gauge shotgun

It's a pain trying to get 16 gauge ammunition. I bet he's just happy he got rid of the thing.

[cuban leaf]

No sarcasm. They mean it.

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Then the “liberal logic 101” tag line is correct: “Yes, they really are that stupid.”

[Axenolith]

You mean another 3 right?

[Axenolith]

Ah... I mean 2 :-)