....until the perps find out who ratted on them.
Oakland has been doing this for years, but they offer $5,000! Here is an old article which makes a few points....
“At least 535 illegal firearms have been recovered in Oakland since the beginning of the year (up to July 27.....)
....the ATF offers whistleblowers a $5,000 reward for information leading to either an arrest or prosecution of a crime involving the reported firearms.
So far, no one has collected payment for a tip.....due to the lack of a system to distinguish between firearms confiscated during routine policing operations and those recovered as a result of public tip-offs....”
So, it sounds to me like the police are mostly finding illegal guns the old fashioned way. The rewards don’t seem to have had much effect. And Oakland sure doesn’t seem any safer.
The great fashion is, “No person is illegal” —I never really could feel the illogic the people shrieking that slogan.
But this “illegal GUN” verbiage is bizzarre.
I just can’t get the very concept into my head.
SOUNDS WEIRD, at least like there is begging to be some, “No GUN is illegal” type slogan.
Illegally POSSESSED by a felon? Well, sure!
But an ILLEGAL GUN —it just doesn’t compute for me.
Turning America into a police state training the ignorant sheeple to become snitches — just like in communist and. Nazi dictatorships. Also of course : The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be Infringed
2. Most Americans, brainwashed by the media, believe most guns are "illegal". Hence, the police will get calls on open carriers, concealed carriers who 'print', and others whom they want to "get" because they feel "unsafe".
I doubt any good comes from any anonymous snitch program like this.
The only people who are gonna get turned in are your neighbors.
People around here call the police all the time about known drug dealing and the cops do zero, so why in the heck would the cops suddenly do anything about reports of illegal guns unless they can make an easy and safe arrest of some harmless Harvey Milktoast?
Snitches get stitches.
Why would they bother with this program? It doesn’t help with the real goal, which is disarming law-abiding Americans. All taking guns from criminals would do is cut down on violent crime, which would weaken the case for disarming all Americans.
Can libtards use this for swatting?
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