Posted on 05/12/2013 3:15:28 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Montgomery County residents handed over 111 guns, 11 BB guns, 10,000 rounds of ammunition and a grenade at Saturday's statewide gun turn-in day, according to county police spokeswoman Lucille Baur.
Among the 111 guns were 68 hand guns, 27 rifles -- including at least one AK-47 -- 15 shot guns and a tiny pen gun, Baur said. In addition to the guns, police also received a sword and two canisters of tear gas, which were turned in by a former D.C. police officer who told police they left over from riots in 1968.
"A successful day," Baur said.
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But unlike recent gun buyback events in Howard County in March and in Prince George's County and Baltimore in December, officials offered no financial incentives for people to hand over their weapons.
Montgomery County has not offered cash or giftcards for a weapon in recent memory. Even at the last turn-in event more than 20 years ago, no financial incentives were offered.
"Incentives can frequently capture people's attention, and while the money isn't overwhelmingly -- as it's traditionally done -- overwhelmingly the biggest factor, our emphasis was to give people an opportunity to voluntarily and safely turn over their weapons," Paulson said....
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...Maryland ping potential.
Soros?
Spooky Dude himself.
Yes, he will get what he deserves one day.
If not in this life, then in the next.
I suggest we do this. Chew a whole box of poptarts into a shape that would scare the tofu out of a public school teacher. Turn in the carbohydrate laden “guns” and ask for payment.
After all, kids have been kicked out of school for making these “guns” so then they are guns and we deserve some money for turning them in.
Turn liberal “logic” against them.
Interesting times, what? It seems that every day brings a new “event” that is totally new to these old bones.
No Pop Tarts shaped like guns?
No photographs of little boys pointing their index fingers?
I fully support gun-buy-back programs. MontCo’s model is probably the best as it does not spend tax dollars. As such, only the most liberally motivated individuals turn in their guns. I fell much safer when our enemies are not armed. (This post is tongue and cheek)
That would be a great poster to display as you marched by the collection station. (You'd probably be able to do it once, before you got busted for some obscure infraction.)
HOOT! That makes me wish we had one here so I could pull that stunt. Unfortunately (not really) I'm in the REAL West, and this kind of posturing isn't done.
Where are these guns going, anyway? What do you want to bet that some are taken as booty by the officers and they do as they please, some go south of the border?, etc. I do not trust this government, in any way, shape or form. And, unless we have (elect) someone like Cruz or Palin, we’ll only have more of the same.
There certainly is no shortage of dumb people in this state.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
In Virginia we call call it a big kiss our butt day.
In a county of over one million legal residents and half again as many illegals and transients, that makes, let's see, hmmmm, a whopping one-tenth of one percent response! Go, liberals!
Good post. One day I wish I could really understand why (relatively speaking) so few people can see what to you and me is as plain as day. I can only ascribe this to mass hypnosis or delusion.
Thanks for the kind words. It is like pissing in your pants in the dark. It gives you a warm feeling, but no one notices.
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