Posted on 12/19/2001 5:40:00 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
Michigan Will Reportedly Buy Back Guns
'Project Safety' To Be Unveiled Thursday
Posted: 3:49 p.m. EST December 19, 2001
Updated: 4:13 p.m. EST December 19, 2001
DETROIT-- Attorney General Jennifer Granholm said Wednesday that the state is prepared to unveil a gun buy-back program.
Granholm is scheduled to announce details of the program Thursday before the media at Motor City Blight Busters in Detroit.
Law enforcement agencies, inlcuding the Michigan Sheriff's Association and Detroit Police Department, and Meijer Stores are supporting Granholm's office in the program, known as Project Safety.
During the buy-back programs, officials offer to pay gun owners for firearms they turn into law enforcement officers. Gun owners are granted limited immunity for turning in the guns, including illegal weapons.
The programs are aimed at encouraging people to get illegal firearms out of neighborhoods and from homes where a potential tragedy could occur.
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From Ross Dykman, exec director.
I just came from a meeting with Wayne County's Sheriff Ficano. The Sheriff's department is NOT participating in this buy-back, and Granholm went over the top of the Sheriff to get Detroit Police to run the buy-back instead.
Letters to Meijers will probably be a good start. We've got other plans as well but I can't say anything here right now. Trust me, we're not letting this one slide past unchallenged.
Also from Ross:
Does anyone here have any junk guns which they would donate to the MCRGO Foundation? (Such donations are tax deductable.)
Please contact me ASAP at rossd@mcrgo.org
From Shooter .38
Limited immunity for illegal guns? Let me see if I got this right now. If I steal a gun, Jenny will be the fence for me and I'll have immunity from prosecution, right? Wouldn't that make her an accessory?
Just a couple more questions- how can the state buy BACK what it never had in the first place? And how did our tax dollars get allocated for this program, or are they using the money that was appropriated for the CCW law?
From Gunslinger:
How does Granholm find time to do this when she cannot find the time to perform the duties of her office? She hasn't requested reciprocity for us to be able to legally carry our firearms in any the states whose CPL's that Michigan honors. She also allows (without objection) Ferndale to pass an ordinance that prohibits CPL holders from entering and using city facilities that they have paid for.
It must be nice to have a job where all you have to do is what you want to do and to h**l with the people if they don't like it!
From Wakebldr
Here is where you can shoot a note to Meijer:
http://www.meijer.com/contact/pcaform.asp
or the more traditional ways:
toll-free within IL, IN, KY, MI, & OH: 1-800-543-3704
Or write to:
Public and Consumer Affairs
Meijer, Inc.
2929 Walker Ave. N.W.
Grand Rapids, MI. 49544-9428
2. We MUST defeat AG Jenny Grandstand. She's worse than 100 Boniors, and worse than Jim Blanchard as well. She's evil, arrogant, condenscending, a Million Moronic Idiot backer, and a LIAR.
3. Anyone in Michigan want to donate cheap guns to MCRGO Foundation, tax deductable?? Heheheheheheh.
The programs are aimed at encouraging people to get illegal firearms out of neighborhoods and from homes where a potential tragedy could occur.
Great idea.
They allow people to cash in old broken guns and buy new guns. This increased demand has the obvious effect of increasing new gun production. Increased gun production in turn leads to lower new gun prices, making effective home protection more affordable for everyone!
This must be the intent of the buy back programs, right? I mean, no one could possibly be so stupid about basic economics as to believe that government buy backs of an easily manufactured product could somehow lead to reduced supply of that product.
Granholm is about as bad is maybe even Metzenbaum(Makes almost Scotty Baesler look good). This is an unholy alliance.
Unfortunately, I don't know how to turn my gun into a law enforcement official.
That said, how much money are they offering, and where can I find a gun that's cheaper? If everyone does it, we might just gum up the works.
During the buy-back programs, officials offer to pay gun owners for firearms they turn into law enforcement officers. Gun owners are granted limited immunity for turning in the guns, including illegal weapons.
So those that steal guns and use them in crimes can get away with it. I want the traffickers in jail.
The programs are aimed at encouraging people to get illegal firearms out of neighborhoods and from homes where a potential tragedy could occur
Sorry Jenny, not my home.
It's easy to turn your gun into a law enforcement official:
1. Aim gun at criminal.
2. Squeeze trigger.
Our congressional delegation will improve immensely with redistricting.
Our US senate status sucks as well, but the senate in general sucks as well all across the country, North and South.
If I lived in Michigan, once this was announced I think I would hit the radio talk shows and insinuate in a deniable fashion that this "buy back program" is actually a sting operation aimed at rounding up people whose ownership or right to possess was questionable and jailing them under a zero-tolerance anti-terrorism homeland defense scheme. Maybe say that a few of my bro's had gone to turn in a gun and had not been heard from since. That would probably have a chilling effect on the plan.
No it wouldn't. It's make us look bad. We have to convince the moderates. Else, we lose. I know what you are saying, and I'm not saying that I personally disagree. The fencesitters won't buy that though and say "Oh that's ridiculous...the media is right about the gun nuts....."
I don't know what exactly our plan is, but we can easily convince the moderates that this is a waste of money and ineffective. The govt's own stats prove that.
Then we can use our activists to punish those that support the ASD lobby election time. Right Granholm?????
Lastly, we may even have a little trick to increase the amount of money MCRGO has with this........
They'll provide me with a down payment on something cool eventually. :-)
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