.Second item made ( for the squirrels in the garden )
Posted on 12/12/2017 11:30:30 AM PST by Puppage
The New Haven Police Department will be buying back guns Saturday and those guns will be transformed into gardening tools, with help from inmates, and provided to schools to harvest vegetables.
Once people turn guns in for gift cards, officers will destroy those guns “under the tutelage of a local and renowned sculptor,” Gar Waterman, police said.
Volunteer members of Connecticut’s prison inmate population will receive the destroyed weapons and Warden Jose Feliciano and staff from the Connecticut Department of Corrections will oversee them as inmates forge the pieces into gardening tools.
Some of the tools will then be donated to New Haven Public Schools that support agricultural programs, including gardening, and the tools will be used to plant and cultivate vegetable gardens.
The crops will be harvested and donated to area soup kitchens.
The New Haven Police Department gun buyback will be at 710 Sherman Parkway in New Haven, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. People turning in working guns will get gift cards for American Express, Stop & Shop, Target, Walmart, Kohl’s or Amazon while supplies last.
Single and double-shot (Derringer style) handguns will be worth $25; rifles and shotguns will be worth $50; pistols and revolvers (handguns) will be worth $100 and assault weapons (to be determined by New Haven Police) will be worth $200.
Guns must be delivered unloaded in clear plastic bags and any ammunition must be delivered in a separate bag. The person dropping off the gun will not be charged with illegal possession of that specific firearm, according to police.
They said no questions will be asked and no identification will be required.
Using guns to fire seeds into the ground??
I plowed up my back yard once with a CZ 75 and 15 Black Talons. Scared that armadillo shitless. The Jamaicans were in charge of my 8 steady hold factors that day...
Turning our swords into plow shares?
I’m just throwing wild numbers out there. But no; if we’re talking about an area where fires are going all day and guards are around and vulnerable to attack with red hot metal, workers comp could be astronomical. If in fact inmates are paid anything for their work there may or may not be a workers comp requirement for *them*; I don’t know. In aggregate, this kind of program will cost perhaps 5,000 times the value of any shovels they manage to create, and of course, the metal coming out of the forge will be all annealed and the shovels will be for s**t as shovels unless they are heat-treated. They will work fabulously for smashing someone else’s face in, though. So if I’m overestimating insurance we can make it up by bringing in a paid blacksmith. The only saving grace will be when one inmate shoves a red hot piece of iron into the face of another and burns 1/4 of his face off. That’ll be the end of that.
Some ideas are so stupid only intellectuals believe them. (George Orwell)
Smart. What could go wrong?
Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don’t.
My Mother used to say “some people are so smart, they’re stupid”.
It took me a while to understand what she meant, then I grew up. #;^)
This cockamamie scheme is right up there with the plans Sacramento, CA has to pay gang members $1.5M to keep the peace.
Liberal pablum feel-good schemes know no bounds.
Those that hammer their swords into plowshares will plow for those that do not.
Nothing like a 30’06 shot to beak up those pesky clumps of sod.
Those that turn their swords into plowshares will plow for those that didn’t
CC
Re: my # 32- Jinx, buy me a coke!
When hoes are outlawed... HMMM, that sounds strange
Connecticut once again wins the award for inventive notions to keep criminal aliens on their voting rolls and out of ICE trouble in prison or in the streets. Only the law-abiding need participate.
Okay — give a truckload of gun parts and some welding equipment to prison inmates. What could possibly go wrong?
.Once people turn guns in for gift cards, officers will destroy those guns “under the tutelage of a local and renowned sculptor,” Gar Waterman, police said.
Fly out over the Abyss of Stupidity.
Jam the stick forward.
Light the afterburners.
I’ve always wondered why they don’t do this with really hazardous waste (spent fuel rods for example). Launch a rocket full of them every now and then.
Everthin' went straight to hell, uh huhhhh
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