Posted on 05/18/2014 5:39:23 AM PDT by rellimpank
When L.C. Stevenson Sr. heard police would by paying money for firearms on Saturday, he figured it was time to finally get rid of the small handgun he had inherited many years ago from his mother.
"It's a hand-me-down gun," Stevenson said. "Never used it. Never shot it. I don't need a gun in my house anyway."
Stevenson took the gun to Tabernacle Community Baptist Chuch on Milwaukee's north side, where police, who had set up a gun buyback station in the parking lot, gave him a check card worth $100.
Stevenson was among scores of people who showed up Saturday to hand over guns they didn't want — handguns of all sizes and conditions, rifles, shotguns and other firearms — in exchange for money.
The exchange rate — bank prepaid cards worth $100 for handguns, $50 for rifles and shotguns and $200 for assault-type firearms — applied no matter whether the gun was in prime condition or rusty and dusty.
Business was brisk for most of the four-hour gun buyback, which was part of an initiative called Ceasefire Week.
Cars lined up and waited for Milwaukee police officers wearing bullet-resistant vests to take the guns out of vehicle trunks, bags or cases, briefly inspect them and then hand the gun relinquisher a money card for each.
The program collected a total of 353 firearms Saturday, which included 234 handguns, 115 rifles and four assault-type guns, according to Mayor Tom Barrett.
Barrett, who visited the site, said he was pleased with how local ministers who sought the program, businesses that funded the buyback and police who administered it work together.
"It's been a pretty steady flow," Barrett said. "People from the neighborhoods. A lot of people from outside the city. But the whole point of this is to provide anonymity
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I tried to compute the percentage of guns this represents to a total of about 300,000,000 guns in American hands. It was too low for my calculator to calculate, but it looks like, if I'm reading the numbers right, about .0000001 percent of the guns out there.
THAT will make a HUGE dent in the problem. What a waste of effort and money by these fools.
Time it took to find the home address of Mr. L.C. Stevenson Sr. on Google, less than 5 seconds.
I wonder if he even realizes that he has just made a prayer to Saint Darwin, to remove him from this mortal coil?
The average liberal would say not the handgun, since in the movies, the bad guy always wrestles the gun away from its legal owner.
I just googled that video! Wow, I had not seen it.
***”This house has no guns in it.”? ***
Back in the anti-gun hysteria of 1968 many people were placing these signs in their windows.
THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED!
It didn’t last long.
” I lived on the north side of Milwaukee.”
I lived on the corner of Lafayette Pl. and Summit, right off Prospect, until ‘81. Nice neighborhood then. Probably still is. Barely North of downtown.
I always wondered about these “Buy Backs”.
How can you “buy back” something that was never yours to begin with?
Is this terminology intentionally designed to reassure people that “The govt. giveth, the govt. taketh away”?
His poor mother raised a pussy.
“Publsh”(in the local papers)All Their Addresses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who finances these gun buybacks?
The New Black Panthers?
Mara Salvatrucha?
Sons Of Barack?
Scared politicians?
It is no different than Michele Obama’s hash tag selfie. With liberals it is never a matter of actually addressing a problem, merely a matter of showing that they care.
The more of our money they tax and spend on utterly ineffectual programs the more they care.
We do of course. Your tax dollars at work.
That stuck out to me too. Woman own guns, theoretically male offspring scared of them. D'oh!
"Those people who are standing down there trying to buy these guns from those who are showing up today do not live in this community," said McVicker, one of the organizers of the event. "And so their lives and worlds aren't impacted by the violence and fear of the people who live here. So, in a way, their presence is unwelcome.
Well no kidding.
So why do you object to them being here? Gun is 'off the street' and now resides in a 'world unimpacted by violence'.
Every time RKBA people make the same claim that the pastor just did, it's regarded as a vile predjudiced comment.
Sell a firearm for a hundred bucks?
Sucker!
If you don’t want it, sell it to someone who does and get some real money.
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