It is clearly a use of forfeiture money to push a political agenda.
Private sales of most long guns are legal in New Jersey, so this might be an opportunity for brave activists to pick up some decent guns at reasonable prices, and to make some political statements of their own.
I find amusing these localities’ use of the term “buyback,” as if they were the original owners of these firearms in the first place.
Idiots.
If these people want to sell there guns they should go to the open market and get the going price for their guns. Not take what the local P.D. Is willing to give them.
Whatever the police will pay for the gun will not even get close to what you’d get Lon the open firearms market.
Here is an article discussing the way that forfeiture funds have been approved of by the Obama administration for this political use.
http://www.nolanchart.com/article10164-stopping-illegally-funded-gun-buybacks.html
Here are links to numerous gun turn in events where private buyers purchased guns for cash.
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/03/azopportunity-for-cheap-guns-phoenix.html
Drugs will never become legal because the government loves all the cash and goods they bring. The drug cartels can rest assured they can continue as long as they turn in their competition and continue to funnel cash into the pockets of corrupt administrations and politicians.
If they had a gun “buy back” in an Arizona church, the parishioners would probably buy all the guns before the “state” got them.
(Are NJ churches gun free zones? Special exemption for police? Oh, that’s right, it’s New Jersey. Nevermind.)
So is putting it in the police department's general slush fund. Civil forfeiture is an abomination.
Bring appropriately shaped Pop-Tarts.