Posted on 10/04/2022 4:04:44 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion
UTICA, N.Y. (UPDATED) -- A man who identified himself only as "Kem" saw people tweeting about using 3D printers to make guns for the sole purpose of selling them for big bucks at gun buyback programs, like the one the New York State Attorney General's Office held at the Utica Police Department last month. He got to work on a $200 3D printer he got for Christmas.
"I 3D-printed a bunch of lower receivers and frames for different kinds of firearms," said Kem.
Then, he drove six hours to Utica.
"And he sees the tote and says, 'how many firearms do you have?' And I said, '110,'" said Kem.
This began a haggling and negotiating session with Attorney General's Office staff that lasted all day long.
"And it ended with the guy and a lady from the budget office finally coming around with the 42 gift cards and counting them in front of me," said Kem. "$21,000 in $500 gift cards."
A few weeks ago, NEWSChannel 2 contacted the state Attorney General's Office, asking if they knew this might be happening. They didn't answer the question, responding only that the Utica gun buyback was a big success and that the program, in general, keeps New York families safe.
"I'm sure handing over $21,000 in gift cards to some punk kid after getting a bunch of plastic junk was a rousing success," laughed Kem. "Gun buybacks are a fantastic way of showing, number one, that your policies don't work, and, number 2, you're creating perverse demand. You're causing people to show up to these events, and, they don't actually reduce crime whatsoever."
Utica police referred all questions to the Attorney General's Office.
A statement sent from a spokesperson at the Attorney General's Office on Wednesday said:
“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.”
“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.
If the lying scumbags in NY’s Office of AG gave a rat’s ass about “New York families being safe” they would take the repeat criminal offenders OFF THE STREETS instead of letting them go again time after time.
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.
“The dude turned their foolish virtue signaling into his own personal profit. Most excellent!”
But those are taxpayer dollars, no?
Argh ! 3390 guns
Indeed.
Someone in Houston did the same a while back. Guess Utica missed the memo huh?
I would say he just made the ATF’s radar be time.
New math. Sheesh!
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.
I suspect Philly is pretty representative.
Philly buyback events have yielded 1,000 guns in three years. None had been used in crimes.
Crims usually are pretty stoopid but maybe not stoopid enough to turn over a gun used in a crime to the Po-Po.
Let’s hear from the NY AG herself......What does she have to say? Doesn’t matter - it would be a lie anyway.
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