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Protest Disrupts Detroit Gun Buyback Effort(MI barf alert)
detroit.cbslocal.com ^ | 30 August, 2012 | Florence Walton

Posted on 08/31/2012 10:27:32 AM PDT by marktwain

DETROIT (WWJ) - Protesters sought to disrupt a “no questions asked” gun buyback effort Thursday on Detroit’s west side.

WWJ Newsradio 950′s Florence Walton reported that gun-toting enthusiasts tried to tempt the people in line by offering them more money not to turn in their weapons.

(Excerpt) Read more at detroit.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: banglist; mi; protest; turnin
Bold open carry activists in Detroit spoil effort to delegitimize armed citizens.
1 posted on 08/31/2012 10:27:42 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Yeah... And? Did anyone get any good deals? I’ve thought of doing this myself.


2 posted on 08/31/2012 10:34:25 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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Check out the horrible weapon that some guy is trying to turn in for $50:

Is that an orange tip at the end of the barrel...?  Gee, I feel so much better knowing that a deadly assault toy is off the streets!

3 posted on 08/31/2012 10:41:50 AM PDT by Joseph Harrolds
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To: marktwain

The article used to show comments, now there are none.


4 posted on 08/31/2012 10:45:06 AM PDT by DBrow
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To: Dead Corpse

I have been trying to find out. All I know so far is that at least one guy bought two shotguns for $75 each. The police put up a line of five officers in the middle of the street to intimidate people from approaching the gun buyers.

At least one person with a shotgun told a reporter that he would not “risk it” by selling his gun for cash, because of the police.


5 posted on 08/31/2012 10:47:53 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: DBrow; All
The article used to show comments, now there are none.

Interesting. I posted the usual comment about how these events are political theater whose real effects are defrauding poor and ignorant people of valuable property while increasing the demand for new guns and wasting police resources for political purposes.

I guess they did not want that comment to be seen.

6 posted on 08/31/2012 10:51:35 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: Joseph Harrolds

Dat mean I doan get da fiddy if I bring my boy? He got da suspend fo doin da OG wid his finga?

Dayum!

7 posted on 08/31/2012 10:53:38 AM PDT by Covenantor ("Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern." Chesterton)
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To: DBrow

The comments are back.


8 posted on 08/31/2012 10:55:21 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Romney/Ryan 2012)
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To: marktwain

since they’re banned in public skools, will they pay me for a chicken finger shaped like a gun?


9 posted on 08/31/2012 2:47:05 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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