Essex (NJ) gun buyback program brings in more than 700 firearms in two days

NJ.com ^ | December 21, 2009 | Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger

[greatdefender]

NEWARK -- Among the more than 700 firearms turned in for cash at last week’s gun amnesty buyback program in Newark, East Orange and Irvington were: an M-16 assault rifle, a Streetsweeper rifle that resembles a "Tommy Gun" and shoots multiple shotgun shells, scores of revolvers, semi-automatic handguns, rifles and shotguns.

Hundreds of the weapons were on display today during a news conference with Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow, county Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, Newark Mayor Cory Booker and others on hand to tout the program’s success.

"I think that the best thing money can buy is saving a life," Dow said, speaking from the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Crime Scene Unit building in Orange. "If we save even one life by that program, I think the entire buyback program is a huge success."

[Cold Heart]

What’s the program worth if it costs a life?

[ICE-FLYER]

85 MILLION gun owners in the United States harmed absolutely NO ONE yesterday.

[TypeZoNegative]

I wonder how many non working BB guns were given up?

[j. earl carter]

The article says that people were given up to $200 for a gun. In many, perhaps most, cases the government probably paid more than fair market value. A used .22 revolver generally isn't going to sell for $200.

So, people got cash money that they can now use to upgrade their arsenals.

[Eagles6]

An M-16, huh? Like to see that.

[Dumpster Baby]

[Eagles6]

How true! They all look like Uzis to me ;-)

[smokingfrog]

You know, I used to think these gun buyback programs were pretty stupid, but I’m really liking them now. Let the idiots disarm themselves. They’ll be less troublesome to deal with when the SHTF.

[Cololeo]

Good stuff, Maynard. The cops are paying $200, no questions asked, to turn in a murder weapon, and destroy the evidence.

[Gator113]

LMAO

[Gator113]

That’s exactly what I’ve been thinking.

[ctdonath2]

I’d love to sell two of my rifles for $400, having paid $60 & $30 for each, to upgrade to something I would actually carry.

[DemonDeac]

What a stupid program. It’d be lovely if the crooks would disarm themselves but everybody knows all a program like this does is get more guns out of the hands of law-abiding people. Criminals aren’t going to be the ones giving up their guns.

[TigersEye]

"I think that the best thing money can buy is saving a life," Dow said, ...

That's why I own several guns and lots of ammo, peon.

It is also why I won't pay taxes if it goes to kill babies.

[ponygirl]

LMAO! That is hilarious!

[ponygirl]

You know, the only reason the presstitutes even know the word “Glock” is from listening to (c)rap music.

[ApplegateRanch]

a Streetsweeper rifle that resembles a "Tommy Gun" and shoots multiple shotgun shells

I want one of them Tommy gun rifles that shoots a batch of shotgun shells.

Wonder how many it shoots in each batch, and how they control the recoil; but rifled barrels must make the shot more accurate.

Figure it must be a shoulder fired version of this, in 3 1/2" 10ga magnum.

[Jack Hammer]

Bulls that deliberately offer up their horns deserve to be cows.

[Iron Munro]

The future is here.

GOVERNMENT STRATEGY TO CREATE JOBS:

1. The government extorts money from citizens under threat of fines or imprisonment.

2. The government then uses the money to purchase goods (automobiles and guns) directly or indirectly via subsidies.

3. Then the government destroys them the goods, thereby reducing the supply and creating an artificial rise in demand.

4. The artificial rise in demand boosts manufacturing, creating jobs, until the destroyed goods are replaced.

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