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Posted on 07/28/2017 9:01:05 AM PDT by PROCON
The State Attorney General for New Jersey has been pumping up state-sponsored gun buy back programs scheduled for this weekend, arguing the events will help in the fight against violent crime.
In an opinion piece published Thursday in the Star-Ledger, New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino admits that gun buy backs are not a complete solution but argues the events can do a lot to help law enforcement get crime guns off the streets.
“Some doubters question the overall efficacy of buybacks, while others suggest that buybacks tend to bring in mostly old ‘attic’ guns,” Porrino said. “But once a gun has been turned in and melted down — as every firearm obtained through these buybacks will be — it can never be stashed in a vacant building or used as a community gun to commit crime after crime. It can never be stolen in a burglary and used later in a violent crime. And it can never fall into the hands of a curious child.”
The gun buy backs will act as just one part of a proposed two part solution, Porrino argues, as prosecutors will now have more tools at their disposal when dealing with offenders who use guns to commit violent crimes. Most notably, due to New Jersey’s new bail reform rules, prosecutors can now seek “no bail” for said offenders.
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Just more of our taxes dollars spent so JUNKIES can buy more drugs.
Amazing, is it not, how profoundly wrong liberals are about absolutely everything.
Liberal arts education.
Mayonaise that has been left too long in the sun.
This might actually work. Because there are only a finite numbers of guns in New Jersey, and there is no way for criminals to bring more in.
/s (of course)
In the early days of this insane policy police were NOT allowed to check guns handed in against their databases. Meaning thieves could turn in guns they stole but didn’t want for a bonus of $50 per gun... then use the money to buy better weapons to use against citizens.
Anyone know if this insanity is still being run that way?
What color is his sky?
The state can’t buy back guns they did not own.
Incentivizing gun theft.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!
Bull$hit. Taking guns from violent criminals will.
It’s true. Every time they do these buy back deals, long lines of violent criminals show up at the police department to sell their stolen guns to the cops. Honest.
this #(*$ again?
Throw back ineffective program. jeesh.
Not a complete solution? Crime Guns? Off the streets?
When it comes to guns, the term "getting guns off the streets" means guns are no longer privately owned. Now it seems people are owning "crime guns" as well, I guess they will keep working on a "complete solution".
In the mean time they will "buy back" guns they never owned or sold before in the first place, yet buying them back again.
Gun “buy-back” programs have never worked effectively, and never will.
First of all, it relies on voluntary compliance. The most likely people to turn guns in are persons who are already deathly afraid to use them, or have no idea about the care, feeding, grooming and proper rules for putting them to effective use. And secondly, it is a darned good market for old, broken weapons that could not fire anyway, and disposing of them in this manner is just clear profit to the person turning in the device.
Those who do know something about how to use them, and are intent on serious home defense, are not going to turn them in anyway, unless there are severe penalties to be assessed if they have concealed their presence from the authorities. Or those who have malice aforethought, and plan on using them in some future criminal enterprise, in which case they are not going to comply with the law.
I recently found an old, rusty pump up pellet “repeater” air rifle. Next “buy back” in Oregon I will see what I get for it.
I inherited two saturday night specials that I want to part with. I’d be willing to trade in these guns for $50 each (more than they are worth) so I can invest in a new handgun.
If the local government wants to return my tax money in exchange for these pop guns then I’m willing.
Implications are that the state was selling them in the first place.
Where can I go to see what they have for sale currently?
I need a gun...and if I can buy one from them, use it and then have them buy it back...well, what a deal, huh?
But, I think contractors and those in the construction trade would be able to fashion a suitable device to drive nails using rocks. So...what then? How does the original logic deal with that? Ban rocks?
Idjits.
They can’t “buy back” what they never owned.
If they want to go into the gun buying business they should just say so but it won’t decrease violent crime any more than if they held a used hammer buying day or old hunting knife buying day.
It isn’t the tool you stupid leftist asshats; it’s the person committing the violence. The tool is barely part of the equation.
Wish it was closer! I’ve got some real junk guns to get rid of! Also some short pipes I can put a cap on and make a slam fire gun!
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