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WI:Racine Gun Turn in (buy back)a Bust
Gun Watch ^
| 29 July, 2013
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 07/28/2013 4:05:37 PM PDT by marktwain
Image of air guns turned in at Phoenix gun turn in event
About as many people turned up to buy firearms as turned up to turn them in.
A total of 77 guns were turned in, with many of them being BB guns.
About 50 people turned up to buy any guns that were worth more than the gift cards offered by the turn in organizers. It is very common for people turning in guns to bring two or more guns to be turned in.
The turn in organizers had $2,500 left over to purchase more firearms. It will be used at some future event.
Many of the people who showed up to buy firearms were members of Wisconsin Carry.
Citizens purchasing private firearms at these events has become very common where private purchases are not banned by law.
Scholars have concluded that such events are ineffective at reducing crime, while opponents have said that they amount to little more than political theater aimed at undermining the Second Amendment, while being subsidized by local police forces.
©2013 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included.
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TOPICS: Government; Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; buyback; guncontrol; secondamendment; turnin; wi
These turn in events will eventually become places to auction off unwanted guns for charity, with a much better use of resources than political theater and the destruction of valuable property.
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:05:37 PM PDT
by
marktwain
To: marktwain
The dummies who turn in their guns should post their home addresses online so the burglars have easy access, hey why not, its not like the house will be protected or anything
To: marktwain
The term “Gun Buyback” is another lie.
How can the government “buy back” something it never owned?
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:19:35 PM PDT
by
LyinLibs
(If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
To: marktwain
Good idea...stand outside and offer 5% more than the idiots are offering...
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:23:33 PM PDT
by
WKUHilltopper
(And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
To: marktwain
Colorado will probably not have any buybacks because the new gun laws make it quite expensive to transfer the “title” of a gun.
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:32:26 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: marktwain
Mostly airguns in the picture. I can make out 2 Crosman 760s which sell for around $25.00. Also a Daisy 880. There is one really nice Daisy target pistol in there. I think it is the model 717.
Sort of a shame to destroy it.
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:44:22 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: marktwain
An interesting thing to me is that I am pretty sure the old Sheridan pellet rifles were made in Racine.
They were powerful and with the right pellets, accurate.
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posted on
07/28/2013 4:51:44 PM PDT
by
yarddog
(Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
To: marktwain
Scholars have concluded that such events are ineffective at reducing crime...
Do you really have to be a scholar to figure that out?
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