Posted on 06/30/2012 5:05:08 PM PDT by Graybeard58
A Downstate pro-gun group says it turned payouts from Chicago’s firearm buyback program last weekend into a fund-raiser for a youth summer camp — a National Rifle Association shooting camp, that is.
The city collected 5,500 guns last Saturday in the annual buyback. The city gave out $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun and $10 cards for BB guns and replicas.
Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group.
Guns Save Life is known for the pro-gun signs the group posts along Interstate 57 between Chicago and Champaign. It also publishes a monthly gun journal.
Most of the money will go toward buying ammunition for an NRA youth camp in Bloomington. The rest will pay for four bolt-action rifles that will be given away to campers.
“This was rusty, non-firing junk that we turned in,” Boch said. “We are redirecting funds from people who would work against the private ownership of firearms to help introduce the next generation to shooting safely and responsibly.”
I love it.
LOVE IT!!!
Touche !
Excellent use of resources!
This is beautiful...teach the gubermint idiots that they can’t run a damn program successfully. Everything they do turns to sh!t.
A Downstate pro-gun group says it turned payouts from Chicago’s firearm buyback program last weekend into a fund-raiser for a youth summer camp — a National Rifle Association shooting camp, that is.
This is not the first time they've done this.
Wonder if Pfleger & Jesse will now show up at the shooting camp & throw a tantrum?
Hmmm....maybe not. Jesse didn’t even show up at his own protest outside a Cicero gun shop, just two moonbats.
Jesse Jackson must be a Nazi Quaker. Every so often he declares war but then refuses to go.
(dig your screen name)
The ironic thing about it is that most of the guns bought at those “gun buybacks” are junk. Is any reasonable person going to sell a good gun worth several hundred dollars for one hundred dollars?
Logic escapes liberals every time. If I had a junk gun, I’d happily sell it for $100 and use that money towards a better gun. Just like the guys in the article did, just like anybody with a brain would do. Liberals just don’t get it.
ROFL!
I cleaned out a garage and a barn for one of my relatives. I found a rusted .22 single shot rifle,cut off at the barrel as well as the stock. I think it was used to kill hogs. I also found a .32 centerfire derringer in a cabinet in the garage. The barrels would not lock into the receiver. Turned them in at a buyback in Reading and used the $150 to get ammo for my .44 Mag.
I wonder what constitutes a "replica". Might be that one could use some glue and popsicle sticks to make a real "killing".
(dig your screen name)
Gunnies recognize it. Others might think it's a real name.
Nice Ishapore. Around 1970 somebody produced the Enfield Envoy, a less expensive international match rifle in .308. Can’t find one anywhere.
Nothing beats the 70 degree bolt throw of the SMLE. The “Old Contemptibles” proved that in 1914.
My favorite Enfield is the Lee Metford as seen in “Breaker Morant”.
I got it in 2000, as payment for recovering my FFL of choice's MS Money file with all his business records. At the time they were, I think, around a hundred bucks from Southern Ohio Gun. Can't touch any Enfield for anything like that now.
I took it out to my Dad's back 40 to test fire it. My Dad asked when I got back "You got something new, didn't you?" :-). It's a cannon.
I should find the sword bayonet to fit it.
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