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LAPD endangers selves and public with gun safety violation at ‘buyback’
The Examiner ^ | 1/2/13 | David Codrea

Posted on 01/02/2013 7:21:20 AM PST by Nachum

The Los Angeles Police Department held a so-called gun “buyback” the day after Christmas, reportedly taking in over 2,000 firearms at two locations.

Disregarding for a moment that Chief Charlie Beck once more trotted out an inert tube and presented it as an active rocket launcher to awe the “Authorized Journalists” who don’t know any better (and it still hasn’t been established if it’s the same one he trotted out at a previous photo op), disregarding that Beck himself is armed and men under his command routinely deploy with firearms he describes as “weapons of war, weapons of death [that] have no place in our great city," and disregarding the hypocrisy of Mayor Villaraigosa, who has control problems of his own, and who lives behind a zoning ordinance-violating wall (while being anti-wall) surrounded by 24/7 taxcow-funded armed security, there are several unanswered questions the press never seems to be curious about.

If the object is public safety, why would citizens who are presumed not to be able to safely own guns be encouraged to handle and transport them?

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; buyback; gun; guncontrol; lapd; secondamendment; violation
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1 posted on 01/02/2013 7:21:33 AM PST by Nachum
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I wish they would have one of these gun buybacks in my hometown, I have an old, cheap .22 that I let the kids plink cans with when they were young until the firing pin broke. The gun store says would be far more expensive to repair than too buy a new one. I would love to pawn off the useless piece of junk to some unsuspecting liberal for more than it was ever worth brand new!
2 posted on 01/02/2013 7:34:04 AM PST by apillar
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Hey, I live in Los Angeles county. I wish I had some neighbors with crappy rusted hardware I could sell to the LAPD!


3 posted on 01/02/2013 7:36:51 AM PST by Nachum (The List is off the Google blacklist- www.nachumlist.com)
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To: apillar
An INERT tube is a rocket launcher?

I missed THAT science class.

4 posted on 01/02/2013 7:37:09 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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And David Codrea flunked spelling


5 posted on 01/02/2013 7:39:09 AM PST by knarf (I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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“I would love to pawn off the useless piece of junk to some unsuspecting liberal for more than it was ever worth brand new!”

I was at an Orlando gun show a couple of years ago. A pawn shop table had revolvers in 55 gallon drums for $15 each with information about a gun buyback where they were offering $30/gun. Turns out that millions of .38 short black powder guns were produced into the 1930’s. They were, I was told, $1 guns back then. They shoot no modern rounds, although they’ll chamber a 9mm. They’re made from pot metal and although some of them have nice rolled graphics, they’re junk. My uncle, who has been in the gun business for years, told me that “every pawn shop” had dozens of these and some of them try to dry up the buyback funds by selling them at shows. Where else can you make 100% on your money?

BTW, my neighbor’s high school kids owned a couple of these for carry pieces. I think it was the fashion to have a gun. I explained how dangerous they were as the pot metal may or may not hold up when firing a 9mm. Don’t know if they ever got rid of them or not.


6 posted on 01/02/2013 7:42:02 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: Nachum

Maybe take some pine boards, a jigsaw, car antenna’s and some rubber bands and make a few hundred and turn them in.


7 posted on 01/02/2013 7:58:28 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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8 posted on 01/02/2013 8:15:57 AM PST by bgill (We've passed the point of no return. Welcome to Al Amerika.)
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To: bgill

When I was a kid we all made the same “gun” but instead of using a clothes pin half as a “shell” we used a strike any where match. Work great!


9 posted on 01/02/2013 8:28:17 AM PST by TaMoDee ( Lassez les bons temps rouler dans les 2012! Allez Pack!)
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To: Nachum

***once more trotted out an inert tube and presented it as an active rocket launcher to awe the “Authorized Journalists” who don’t know any better ***

Kind of like dangling beads in front of the natives.


10 posted on 01/02/2013 8:34:05 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
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To: bgill

We used to make those all the time as kids. Worked great for spitballs or hard peas.

We used the half of the second clothes pin (listed as “shell”)to cock the unit kind of like a muzzleloader.


11 posted on 01/02/2013 8:37:24 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (REOPEN THE CLOSED MENTAL INSTITUTIONS! Damn the ACLU!)
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To: knarf

“Inert” has a legitimate use when referring to “dummy” firearms. Maybe it’s considered not PC to say “dummy” anymore, in any context.


12 posted on 01/02/2013 8:39:07 AM PST by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." -- M. O'Neal, USMC)
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To: Nachum
Disregarding for a moment that Chief Charlie Beck once more trotted out an inert tube and presented it as an active rocket launcher to awe the “Authorized Journalists” who don’t know any better

But was it an ASSAULT ROCKET LAUNCHER?

13 posted on 01/02/2013 10:58:40 AM PST by VeniVidiVici (Bathhouse Barry wants YOU to bend over for another four years)
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