Posted on 01/29/2013 6:17:50 AM PST by marktwain
New London Connecticut will be giving Visa gift cards for firearms in March. $100 cards will be given for handguns, $75 for rifles and shotguns, and $150 for "assault-style" firearms.
The program will be conducted on the weekends of March 2nd and 3rd and 9th and 10th. The guns are to be turned in at the New London Truman Street police station. No hours have been given.
These programs are widely advertised with the propaganda term "buy back". The term is a lie, because the guns were never owned by the people who are now buying the guns in order to destroy them.
These programs are designed for one major function: to make political theater that delegitimizes armed citizens, and the ownership of guns.
In a practical sense, they defraud ignorant gun owners of valuable property, waste valuable police resources, destroy valuable assets, and increase the demand for new guns by reducing the supply of used guns.
In Connecticut, which has some of the worst gun laws in the country, ordinary citizens cannot legally buy or sell handguns without government permission. Firearms that have been defined by Connecticut law to be "assault weapons" are not allowed to be possessed, bought, or sold.
Connecticut still has a shred of freedom, because rifles and shotguns that are not defined by law as "assault weapons" may be bought and sold to and from ordinary citizens, if they are not prohibited from owning guns, and if they reside in Connecticut. Antique firearms, and replicas of firearms made before 1898 do not require permits or licenses if they do not fire commonly available fixed ammunition.
This opens an opportunity for the brave activist who wishes to expose the insanity of these turn in events. Activists across the nation have stood in public spaces at these events, offering cash for firearms worth more than the people at the turn in are offering. At some events police have violated the activists rights by harassing them in order to stop them from their protest and legal purchases.
I would rate the Connecticut event as high risk for police misconduct, because it is scheduled at a police station, police drove off an activist at a recent event, and Connecticut has an active anti-freedom government.
I would attend the event if I lived in Connecticut, but I would want to have a friend or fellow activist with me who could record police interactions so that there would be no dispute about what was said.
Not surprisingly, Connecticut is also one of twelve states that require all parties consent to record private conversations. A conversation with a police officer in a public place is not ordinarily considered a private conversation, but police in states that require "all party" consent have arrested people for recording their public actions. The U.S. First Circuit court of appeals has ruled that recording police in public places is a First Amendment right, but Connecticut falls under the Second Circuit.
In numerous other states, activists have obtained some nice firearms at bargain prices while exposing the ridiculous assumptions of the "buy back" gun turn in events.
Here are some links to recent turn in events where private citizens scored bargains.
activist harassment in Connecticut
Seattle Turn in Link
Tucson Turn In Link
Oregon Turn In Link
Recording Police First Amendment Right Ruling Link
Dean Weingarten
Here are a few recent examples, with links:
Seattle has gun Turn in, Private buyers save guns
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2982411/posts
AZ:Former Senator Offers Better Alternative to Gun Turn In
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2975505/posts
A Reader Reports from the Hartford CT Gun Buyback
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2965697/posts
Cleveland Gun Buyback Program Attracts Buyers Offering Cash for Guns (VIDEO) (OH)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2949475/posts
The Detroit PD Doesnt Like Competition(MI)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2925955/posts
Gun-buying enthusiasts crash firearms turn-in event at Memorial Coliseum(OR)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2920297/posts
$150 for an “assault-style” weapon? Try $1500 minimum at any gun show for an AR. Wish I lived nearby.
Just wait outside these “turn-in” points, and offer the person bringing in the firearm twice what the official “gun buy” people are willing to pay, and you will have your pick of a pretty good array of weaponry.
Of course, this may turn out to be a risky business model, as a lot of the sidearms being turned are in poor condition or even unusable, except as salvage. Also, the authorities would be sharply scrutinizing anybody attempting to do such a “pre-buy”.
OK, firearms instructors (there are well over 60,000 of you registered with the NRA) - back away from the keyboard. Enough with the talk:
The NRA website sells the rifle and shotgun student course books for $7. The recently revised and superbly illustrated pistol book is only $11. Go down there and offer courses. Show ‘em what you got - teach on the street with a couple of your buddys. Evangelize.
Are you an NRA recruiter? If not, why not? (For the bottom feeders: you sell memberships for $35 and get to keep $10.)
This made me laugh!
http://dcxposed.com/2013/01/27/seattle-gun-buyback-gets-jacked-turns-into-a-damn-gun-show-lol/
How about the “don’t be a sucker” or “it may be worth more” signs?
How about “Why take $150.00 when I might give you 4 times that much for an assault type weapon?”
The program will help to reveal the intellectually challenged folk in the state, since they could get much more money selling the guns to other citizens.
When the police pick up on that, and you ask to see what the individual has to "turn in", they will arrest him for "brandishing"!
Think, I almost took a job with a drug company in New London but moved here instead. It cost me about $11K a year to be closer to family but all the blue pills in the world aren’t worth the chicken droppings that our conservative brothers and sisters are putting up with there.
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I am guessing a lot are stolen. The same thing is going on with the we buy gold places. Kids and others steal family rings, chains, etc and get quick cash.
I am guessing a lot are stolen. The same thing is going on with the we buy gold places. Kids and others steal family rings, chains, etc and get quick cash.
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