San Antonio Police Attempt to Remove Private Buyers at Gun Buyback

AmmoLand ^ | Novmeber 24, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

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On Sunday, 19 November, a gun turn-in event, also known by the Orwellian nomenclature of “buyback” was held at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas.

San Antonio police attempted to move private purchasers away from the line of cars forming for the gun turn-in “buyback” event. CJ Grisham, of Open Carry Texas and Texas legislative fame, schooled the police. He kept them from overstepping their bounds. CJ Grisham is now a practicing attorney in Temple, Texas.

This was the first known event of this sort for San Antonio. The temperature was about 65 degrees in San Antonio on Sunday morning, with light rain falling during the event from about noon to four p.m. It appeared to be overcast most of the day. CJ Grisham live-streamed video of the event. That video is available above.

This conversation occurs between CJ Grisham and Captain Earwood before the event really starts. It lasts for two minutes starting about four minutes and 15 seconds into the video. The entire video is two hours and 53 minutes long.

CJ Grisham of Open Carry Texas

Captain Earwood of the San Antonio Police Department.

Captain Earwood is polite, well-spoken, and smart enough to know when to retreat in good order.

Summary of Incident by Dean Weingarten

Captain Earwood of the San Antonio Police Department: Good Morning, How are y’all doing?

CJ: Hey good. How are y’all doing? Mr. Earwood?

Captain Earwood: Captain Earwood, 5013.

CJ: Captain Earwood, nice to meet you.

Captain Earwood: 5013.

CJ: 5013. Doing well.

Captain Earwood: So, We have confirmed that the sidewalk is part of the Alamodome property.

CJ: Nope. You haven’t confirmed that. ‘Cause I already looked at the GIS survey. This is a public sidewalk.

Captain Earwood: Ok.

[FreedomPoster]

I’d love to buy CJ a beer, he’s awesome.

And good on the cop for realizing that the Alamodome manager might be ill informed.

Lots of cities/counties have very good public-facing GIS systems. Go see if yours does and play with it.

[FreedomPoster]

Someone local should consider making a formal complaint on that point to all and sundry - city council, mayor, chief of police, whoever certifies police officers in TX, the AG (Paxton? Do I have the name right?), etc.