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Springfield (MA) police: 3 of the 333 firearms turned in during buyback were assault weapons
The Republican ^

Posted on 03/05/2013 3:10:34 PM PST by matt04

Three of the 333 firearms handed over during a seven-hour buyback conducted by Springfield police on Saturday were deemed by officers to be assault weapons.

Officer Richard Rodrigues said one of the weapons was a Chinese model, another resembled an AR-15 and the third was a Hi-Tec.

Each one of those weapons netted $100 worth of VISA gift cards for those who turned them in. Information on the specific models was not immediately available.

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Of the firearms turned in Saturday, 112 were shotguns, 101 were handguns, 117 were rifles and three were black powder guns, Rodrigues said.

Two additional firearms, deemed by police firearm experts as potentially rare, will be handed over to the museum at the Springfield Armory National Historic Site for further evaluation. One is a so-called pepperbox handgun and the other is a musket, Rodrigues said.

(Excerpt) Read more at masslive.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment; springfield
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To: Lady Jag

Bingo.


21 posted on 03/06/2013 12:41:39 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts
With that settled, when you've nothing to defend with them you can have a banana split.


22 posted on 03/06/2013 1:06:26 PM PST by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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To: matt04

Participating in a gun buy back is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.


23 posted on 03/09/2013 7:23:35 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: matt04

Participating in a gun buy back is like having yourself castrated because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.


24 posted on 03/09/2013 7:23:35 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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