Posted on 07/03/2014 8:39:59 AM PDT by marktwain
In the photo above, there are a couple of what appear to be nice Smith & Wesson revolvers worth hundreds of dollars each.
There was a gun turn in event held at Jacksonville, Florida on the 28th of June. 693 guns were turned in for the low, low price of $50 each. The event was also known by the propaganda term "buy back". There were no guns "bought back" because the people buying the guns had never owned them before.
It was no easy feat getting to the door of the lodge. An a energetic group of private gun buyers and representatives of Florida Carry, a gun rights organization, stood at the exit to the parking lot, nearly blocking it, and calling out those on their way across the street to stop and talk to them instead.
Florida law allows for the sale of firearms person to person.
The "gun buyback" was awesome!!! Thanks to JSO, Dalores Weaver and the Chamber of Commerce an informal gun bizarre was set up on the streets of Jacksonville. While JSO bought the unworkable crap guns the good stuff was purchased by the more than 40 buyers there offering more money than JSO. Hundreds of guns were sold to private citizens. The best part was NO BACKGROUND CHECKS were done and no questions asked. The officers were very helpful directing potential sellers to the buyers paying more $$. The officers working the event said gun buybacks are stupid and do nothing to stop crime. This is a pr stunt for the sheriff and mayor.
William Blodgett i wish i could have gotten my hands on a single shot shotgun but so many people was out with sighs wanting to get there hands on cheep guns it would have been pointless
Those that are considered collectables, such as antiques, are not destroyed, Rutherford said. He said others are cut apart and melted.
Hmmm - how will they determine which guns are suspected of being used in a crime? Will they profile the gun, or perhaps, Oh NO! - the person turning the gun in?
My suspicion would be that if that had evidence from a crime scene or scenes that a 9mm semi-auto was used, they might check out plausible 9mm semi-autos.
It likely means that no rifles, shotguns, or revolvers will have any ballistic testing done.
Ballistics checks of shotties is largely an impossible task.
"Those that are considered collectables, such as antiques, are not destroyed, Rutherford said. He said others are cut apart and melted".
Tranlastion = We pick through the guns and take whatever we want based on political hierarchy. Those that aren't wanted but are functional we will keep in reserve, no need to throw something away we can use to "solve" a crime, know what I'm saying, wink wink.
Only guns that are suspected of being used in a crime will have ballistic testing done on them
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Translation = We aren't going to trace every firearm. Do you know how long that would take you insignificant peon? Plus it might take a nice gun out of the hands of my cronies if it turns out it was stolen. Instead, if there is some high profile case where someone important was killed we might trace a gun that used the same caliber. Maybe...it depends on how much I owe my followers and how much they like their ill gotten gains.
If you had recovered shell casings at the crime scene, you could attempt to compare extractor and firing pin marks.
A tough job, but if you had casings and a suspected shotgun, it might yield some results.
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