Posted on 12/06/2008 7:13:04 AM PST by rellimpank
A community activist claims the city cancelled his gun buy-back event planned for today in City Park, but the city claims it has given him the go-ahead to collect the guns outside the park.
Alvertis Simmons showed reporters Friday evening a city permit he received three weeks ago to hold a rally against gun violence at the Martin Luther King statue in City Park Saturday. He said the city's Parks and Recreation Department pulled the permit Friday when a staffer strictly interpreted the city ordinance banning guns in a park.
But Parks and Rec Manager Keven Patterson said he's been trying to reach Simmons on the number listed on the permit application to allow the buy-back to go forward. He says Simmons hasn't returned his call. Calls to Simmons from the Denver Post also went unanswered.
Simmons held a press conference at the park Friday afternoon complaining about the city's unwillingness to let him conduct the gun buy-back operation, which he said is supported by Manager of Safety Al LaCabe, City Councillors Carla Madison and Michael Hancock, as well as the police at District II.
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Time to post another alert, but this one is perhaps a bit new to non-Colorado FR members:
Warning: BOULDER DEMENTIA SYNDROME in play.
Where are the guns going after he “buys them back”? I need to conduct my own “gun buy back”. I’m sick of paying the going rate for firearms. I need to tell stupid women that trading their husbands’, boyfriends’, etc. firearms to me for fifty bucks will reduce crime. For a couple grand I’d have the collection of a lifetime.
Stupid sheep are going to get slaughtered by their master and they won’t even understand how it happened.
—yep—the amusing untold part of this gun-buyback story (although alluded to in the comments by readers) is that the buyback qualifies as a “gunshow” under Colorado law and the organizer is apparently a felon, thus making it illegal-—
I think some gunowners should apply for a permit to do a gun exchange.
It should be called “I want more guns for my collection”.
We could give them waterpistols in exchange for real firearms.
Yes, I want the one or two libs that own guns to sell them.
Heh!
Time to dig out that rusted out old 98k that can’t hit anything and go get some good money out of it.
I’ll counter-bid $51.00
Any gun he takes in that is stolen means he is unlawful possession of stolen property and can be arrested and charged. He specifically says, “No question asked”, so he expects there to be unlawful possessions.
By legal definition of the “gun-show-loophole-law” he is operating a gunshow and will be required to perform a NICS check for the firearms transfers.
Because he is operating as more than a personal use firearms transaction he is operating as a firearms dealer and is required to hold a Federal Firearms License. Failure to hold an FFL means he can be arrested and charged with operating a firearms business without a license.
Sounds like an excellent way for criminals to get rid of guns used in crimes.
Alvertis Simmons should be immediately arrested if he can’t produce an FFL... After all, with his “gun buy-back,” he’s admitting that he must have sold all those guns... I mean, you can’t “Buy Something Back” without having first sold it to someone else, can you?
Mark
The last time my local government conducted one of these "Public Inteligence Tests" disguised as a $50 Gun Buy Back I was tempted to take a few thousand and walk the line looking for possible deals on good weapons.
Part of the irony is that people weren't even getting $50 cash - they were getting $50 gift certificates to purchase overpriced merchandise. What is the true value of that? Maybe $15 - or less?
Watching TV coverage it was sad to see that some of the guns these idiots were swapping were easily worth many hundreds of dollars (that doesn't take much these days) and I saw some that would go into the thousands. There were a few smart people who traded away absolute pieces of junk with no value at all.
A couple of years ago there was a guy on this board who did this in Arizona (Phoenix, I think). He said he set up a table a short distance away from the buy-back site and offered to "inspect" any firearm for free. If it was a good one, he offered more. The buy-backers tried to get him arrested, or at least brow-beaten, from his site but he was familiar with the law and kept his spot. He didn't say if he got any good ones though.
Evidently he was a gadfly as he was also hassling them about a city/state provision that when you entered a library, even though as a licensed CCW holder, you had to surrender your handgun to the librarian so they could put it in an unsecured locker. That's another one that I don't know what happened but apparently he caused the anti-gunners a lot of grief.
Yeah, well I want the gun buy-forward to go back. So there!
I wonder what a gun would have gone for on the streets of Mumbai when the terrorists were attacking?
If somebody wants to sell their gun to that idiot, it’s OK by me. Purchase and sale of guns is and should be, legal.
GMTA - I would like to participate in a gun buy back program. The government can buy some, I can buy some, and a lot of pro 2nd amendment people can buy some. Let’s spread the wealth here libs, let the conservatives participate in the gun buy back programs.
What’s more is that a street punk can now rob a convenience store, get rid of the weapon at this gun “buy back”, and receive $50 to boot. What a deal!
Another “Disarm the citizens” in the name of social justice.
Code for disarming the citizens so they can’t resist the government.
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