Posted on 12/05/2008 6:50:57 AM PST by CodeToad
We could offer a $500 per ear as proof to collect the bounty. But if we did the gangbangers would all do the VanGogh bit.
Actually, I meant “sick” as a compliment, as in a sick sense of humor, of which I am often accused of having.
Okay. Gotcha!
;^)
That’s about it... Yep.
What are Saturday Night Specials? The term is loosely used to describe an inexpensive handgun, usually made from pot metal and chambered in a lower caliber. The significance of his statement is the affordability of this type of gun quite often makes it the only self-defense option for the poor. Is he saying that we disarm the poor first?
Buying something back implies the seller is doing a favor for the buyer, as when a jeweler offers to buy back an engagement ring if things don't work out.
Did any member of the group organizing this event sell the guns initially?
Even better, did all the people who will be turning in a firearm to collect their $50 actually buy it?
Related to the last question, will the police check the serial numbers on all the guns turned in against a list of stolen weapons, or would that be too much work?
Of course, no self-respecting reporter could be expected to ask these kinds of questions. Just write the story, then a follow-up with a photo of a big stack of guns.
Well they could just start snitching . That would be more productive than any Buy Back Program
I announced this as a gun buy program. I mean $50? “Hey, kid, I’ll give you $100 for that piece!” See what I mean.
It seems to me that this is a gun show by legal definition and requires NICS checks for all purchases.
Seller's remorse for having sold them in tne first place?
Don't they usually do this sort of thing at City Hall? They must have figured out where the problem lies...
Colorado statute 12-26.1-106 states:
(3) “Gun show” means the entire premises provided for an event or function, including but not limited to parking areas for the event or function, that is sponsored to facilitate, in whole or in part, the purchase, sale, offer for sale, or collection of firearms at which:
(a) twenty-five or more firearms are offered or exhibited for sale, transfer, or exchange; or
(b) not less than three gun show vendors exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange firearms.
(4) “Gun show promoter” means a person who organizes or operates a gun show.
(5) “Gun show vendor” means any person who exhibits, sells, offers for sale, transfers, or exchanges, any firearm at a gun show, regardless of whether the person arranges with a gun show promoter for a fixed location from which to exhibit, sell, offer for sale, transfer, or exchange any firearm.
This activist group is a gun show under Colorado law.
The statutes continue:
12-26.1-101. Background checks at gun shows - penalty.
(1) Before a gun show vendor transfers or attempts to transfer a firearm at a gun show, he or she shall:
(a) require that a background check, in accordance with section 24-33.5-424, C.R.S., be conducted of the prospective transferee; and
(b) obtain approval of a transfer from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation after a background check has been requested by a licensed gun dealer, in accordance with section 24-33.5-424, C.R.S.
(2) A gun show promoter shall arrange for the services of one or more licensed gun dealers on the premises of the gun show to obtain the background checks required by this article.
(3) If any part of a firearm transaction takes place at a gun show, no firearm shall be transferred unless a background check has been obtained by a licensed gun dealer.
(4) Any person violating the provisions of this section commits a class 1 misdemeanor and shall be punished as provided in section 18-1.3-501, C.R.S.
Don't worry; I'm sure that any quality pieces will end up in a cop's private collection or a local gunshop.
Hey, can anybody do this? What an awesome idea!
I put a small ad in the paper advertising a gun buyback. I’ll, I mean my organization, will pay anybody $50 to turn in their gun.
All to keep mean guns off the street and out of the hands of children!
I LIKE it.
Let's form an organization.
Citizens Responding Against Street Shootings (CRASS), and start our OWN buy-back programs in all 50 states.
We will simply destroy the junk guns, but KEEP the good ones (and there are always a FEW good ones turned in by dumb-a$$es).
We'll have awesome(er) gun collections in NO TIME.
I have a bunch of pipe and nails in my garage - think they would be willing to pay $50 for each section of pipe and nail set I put together? Could probably crank out dozens in time?
LOL! Maybe we could also go international and buyback all the AKs on the streets in the Mideast. :)
I am assuming you are being charitable here as you would still have to shell out a couple hundred more bucks...
Nope. Bought my AR 15 on sale for that amount.
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