[CodeToad]

The buyback seems to be this weekend as announced on local radio stations.

[o_zarkman44]

I would offer to pay them double!

[mgc1122]

Hey, another publicly financed “Dump your stolen piece for cash” day ... essentially allowing thugs to turn in hot, broken or worthless guns for cash to buy other guns for criminal purposes.

[Daveinyork]

They’ve tried this here in York, PA. It’s noting but political grandstanding.

Some sick SOB was distributing a flier showing to make a function gun with a couple of bucks worth of materials available in any hardware store. He suggested making six of these, selling them in the buyback program for $50 each, and then taking the $300 and buying a real gun.

[HD1200]

Wish they would have this in our city; I have two old total junk guns worth a buck apiece that I would love to get $50 each for!

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Isn't "buying" guns without a background check a violation of Federal law?

Regards,
GtG

PS See me first, I'll go at least $75 if the piece is worth having!

[mad_as_he$$]

How many criminals use non functioning guns to kill people?

[RasterMaster]

Nothing creates an incentive quite like paying criminals to steal a few more. Maybe the city of Denver will use the cash to pay for trigger locks for their cops....

http://m.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/10/stolen-police-cruiser-found-gun-missing/

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-79843790.html

http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-138536683.html

http://www.yourstreet.com/news/4703437/police-gun-stolen-in-burglary#/news/4703437/police-gun-stolen-in-burglary

http://www.examiner.com/r-3906665~Police_gun_stolen_in_burglary.html

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/oct/10/stolen-police-cruiser-found-gun-missing/

[RetiredArmy]

$50 for my gun? Sorry dude, I ain’t selling. It cost nearly $950 for my AR15. Give me $1,700 and it is yours. Then I will take the $1,700 and buy two new ones. Your move Denver.

[conservativeharleyguy]

"... now we’ve got to get those guns out of the hands of all these criminals...".

Right....

Because everyone knows that "these criminals" are absolutely chomping at the bit to line up and get fifty bucks apiece for guns they either stole or paid hundreds of dollars for on the black market.

You know they'll do it for the good of "the community".

[reg45]

Ok now, let’s get this straight. If a gang guy shoots another gang guy and steals his gun; this organization will pay him $50 for it.

[Sloth]

The group said the issue is not about trying to ban guns — Holmes said he himself is a gun owner. They said it is simply an attempt to get guns out of the hands of people who have no business owning one in the first place.

Then why are the guns being destroyed instead of re-sold to law-abiding citizens?

[Niteranger68]

Steal a gun. Turn it in. Get $50. Walk away.

Their crime rate will be double by tomorrow.

[Sacajaweau]

They did it here...A little investigation...They were buying better models...on the street.

[MrB]

I object to the term buyback.

It implies that the gov't owns them in the first place.

[rellimpank]

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[Niteranger68]

“We think that it’s fear and people overreacting, but in no way does Sen. Obama intend to take anybody’s guns away,” he said. “What we’re talking about are the Saturday night specials and the illegal and illicit use of the guns, not to defend, but to kill, maim and hurt.”

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?

[logician2u]

Can anyone explain to me why these futile attempts at getting guns away from those "who have no business owning one in the first place" are called "buy-backs"?

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.

[grjr21]

“We’re tired of our kids dying, we’re tired of our community being shed with blood — do something, shut up, stop complaining,”

 

Well they could just start snitching . That would be more productive than any Buy Back Program

[CodeToad]

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.

[Oztrich Boy]

Group offers to buy back guns (Denver)

Seller's remorse for having sold them in tne first place?