“It’s shameful that this individual exploited a program that has successfully taken thousands of guns off the streets to protect our communities from gun violence. We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns, and one individual’s greedy behavior won’t tarnish our work to promote public safety. We have adjusted our policies to ensure that no one can exploit this program again for personal gain.”
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Ha ha. The dude turned their foolish virtue signaling into his own personal profit. Most excellent!
“Then, he drove six hours to Utica.”
Ahh, there went a good part of his margin.
The last paragraph is a total lie meant to make themselves feel good.
I participated in a gun sales event in Baltimore. The people standing in line all had similar rusted out pieces of garbage like I did. None of them were “crime guns” or anything like that. Just a bunch of old steel tubes that were worth far less than what the city was willing to pay. Many of us were discussing what firearms or ammo we were buying with the money.
Good on this guy for playing them for fools they are and sticking to his guns.
I’d have just kept my mouth shut about it.
Is that why crimes with firearms have been plummeting? /s
…”We have partnered with local police throughout the state to recover more than 3,500 guns”…
Ahem, 3490 guns.
Someone in Houston did the same a while back. Guess Utica missed the memo huh?
Government unhappy people smarter than them found a loophole.
Government unhappy citizen uses a program they design to the letter of the law, but not in the spirit of the law, ie wanting government to disarm them for a bribe.
This is the second time this has happened and the ATF won’t let it go on indefinitely. Federal law allows you make firearms for your own use but they’re not transferrable unless you’ve serialized them and registered their serial numbers with the gummint.
Plus, the ATF reserves the right to designate you as a manufacturer based on how many guns you’re making and how you’re disposing of them. And they can do it retroactively. And under the terms of the 1968 GCA, manufacturers MUST serialize their firearms.
So they potentially could label this guy a manufacturer and come after him for failing to pay to register as a Type 7 Firearm Manufacturer, failing to pay the ATF’s fee for same, and for distributing unserialized firearms.
And there’s nothing he could do but bend over and grab ankle.
I'd like to know how many of the guns "bought 'back'" by this "program" were from criminals, or guns used in crime?
I'd like to know just how to make these sorts of claims!
Mark
Great business. If this whole confiscate for bucks thing becomes big, I’ll have to buy a printer. It’s an appropriate transfer of wealth … from libtards to gun toting, bible thumping, hardworking Americans.
Let’s hear from the NY AG herself......What does she have to say? Doesn’t matter - it would be a lie anyway.
https://nationalfile.com/florida-man-sells-homemade-1776-boom-sticks-at-gun-buyback-city-runs-out-of-cash-in-30-minutes/
Some choice excerpts:
"A so-called “gun buyback” event in Pensacola, Florida did not go according to plan over the weekend, as a local gun club showed up to counteroffer the city by paying actual market value for citizens’ firearms."
"The only weapons the buyback was able to acquire included BB guns and homemade “Boom Stick 1776” pipe guns, which forced the event to run out of cash in under 30 minutes."
"Members of the local Second Admendment advocacy group Escambia Carry showed up to the event with a sign that read “Don’t Get Ripped Off By The City With This Stupid Gun “Buyback’ Program – See Me To Get Fair Market Value For Your Firearm.”"
"“Numerous people told us they sold their old junk guns to buy new firearms."
"Someone sold a Marine Emergency Flare gun."
"Other attendees had air pistols (BB/pellet guns)."