Posted on 05/10/2023 4:36:41 AM PDT by grundle
The man drove six hours to turn in the parts he made on a $200 3D printer
A New York man claims to have made $21,000 during a gun buyback program by 3D printing over 100 lower receivers and turning them over to police.
"I 3D-printed a bunch of lower receivers and frames for different kinds of firearms," the man, who would only identify himself as "Kem," told WKTV last week.
Kem says he printed the gun parts on a $200 3D printer he received as a gift for Christmas and then made the 6-hour drive to Utica, New York, where the Utica Police Department was hosting a gun buyback program for the New York State Attorney General's Office.
"And he sees the tote and says, 'how many firearms do you have?' And I said, '110,'" Kem reacalls.
From there, Kem said he spent the rest of the day negotiating with the Attorney General's staff over how much the payment for the 3D-printed parts would be.
"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," Kem said. "$21,000 in $500 gift cards."
Kem laughed off claims by the Attorney General's Office that the Utica gun buyback program was a large success, arguing such programs do nothing to reduce crime.
"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," Kem said. "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."
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Bravo.
That’s what I call free enterprise capitalism at its best.
This was last October.
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The question is WHY is he bragging about it?
This sounds like an enterprise that he could repeat over and over all around the country IF he had kept his mouth shut.
What gave it away...the date on the article?
They negotiated down to $21,000. He brought 110 lowers which would have been $55,000 (110 x $500).
Stop being a jerk, just pointing it out.
And criminals sell their stolen guns at these buy backs and just go out and steal another one.
Yeah, this article was posted several times on FR. In 2022.
No.
Amazing. Incentives matter.
“Buy Back” - Like it was the government’s in the first place.
He is bragging because it gains news attention and puts the spotlight on the absurd nature of these programs.
IRS makes 3am visit with real guns.
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