One location had no guns turned in.
One location had no guns turned in.
What were the rest?
LOL!!! Yeah right! LOL!!
Wow... Eric holder would be proud!
My only gun is a piece of junk (9mm semi) that I got in my 20’s... don’t really want it anymore (kids in my house, hasn’t been fired in 15 years.. and not expecting the inquisition).. Anyone recommend a good place to get rid of one besides wait for one of these programs?
A Lorcin worth $500?
That, I would like to see.
Hmm. The way that is stated, one must assume that the police sold those guns to the perps / people originally.
That doesn't seem right.
;-)
These insipid and stupid events always make me sick to my stomach. Pure liberal idiocy. The PD’s from the 1920’s thru the 1950’s had “gun buy-back” programs, they were secret hit squads directed specifically at the underground gangs and mobsters. Slaughter the gangs and confiscate the guns.
Civil liberties violations aside I would bet a lot of money that the PD’s back then had an infinitely more successful time getting guns off the streets with those directed programs and that was before there were any real 2nd amendment restrictions.
Heck, my PD still has guns from the 40’s and 50’s that were taken from (dead?) gangsters.
If police could be trusted to successfully target only those who need targeted much like in the 1920’s-1950’s we could have success today just like back then. However, there are too many stupid and affirmative action hires in law enforcement and the ACLU has designated the criminals as victims.
Could the article have been ANY more biased?
How is it a “Buy-Back” unless the cops originally sold them?
29 guns taken out of the hands of elderly but desperate law abiding Americans, gang-bangers looking to trade up, or perhaps unemployed fools who should have simply been willing to give their names and sell at a reputable gun shop.
“whose main mission in life is to inflict damage with a wide spray pattern of buckshot”.
Yah, probably in self-defense, at home.
I have to wonder, true short barrels, or cops not knowing how to measure them properly?
No picture provided to judge from.
If true short shotguns, they just excused felonies.
“The department received 18 revolvers, including a .357-caliber Magnum by Smith & Wesson valued at around $400, a .38-caliber former police-issued gun and a .22-caliber handgun.”
Nice, cheat some old man or lady out of $400.00 at $25.00.
Guess that will get them some Alpo for dinner!
“a Lorcin .380-caliber semi-automatic valued at about $500”
In what universe? Lorcin = throw-away junk, they had a lifetime warranty because they would never sell without it.
Another effort to impress the gullible.
“No one turned in an assault rifle or automatic weapon, which were worth a $75 Bealls gift card.”
Really? No one lined up to give away a gun worth around $1,000 to tens of thousands of dollars if legal, for $75.00?
Only a banger would be that anxious to dump a valuable firearm.
“A father brought in a gun his son had and that he didn’t want in the house”.
So, they do accept guns they KNOW to be stolen, gun did not belong to the father, how old was his son?
“a woman who is known to Smith and the East Bradenton community as being a strong anti-crime, anti-violence advocate pulled into the parking lot....... She said there are guns in this community that needed to be turned in.”
Ah, the local hoplophobe, working tirelessly to deprive others of their rights.
A “Community Organizer”, who no doubt expects preferential treatment from the cops if SHE has a problem, being such a superior PC specimen as she is. /s
“I think it’s great they do this,” said Stanley Garcia, a New Jersey resident... I’m against guns”.
OK Jersey, you are against inanimate objects, but OK with your Joysey home-boy thugs?
Read more here: http://www.bradenton.com/2012/06/18/4081604/29-guns-removed-from-the-streets.html#storylink=cpy
They forgot the decimal point. A Lorcin is worth about $5, and it might fire eight or nine rounds with the magazine. They obviously didn't get any photogenic AK47s to show off.
All gun turn-ins in Detroit feature an AK47, even if they have to bring one from the evidence locker. The rest of the haul is mostly trash.
Still, good on the Bradenton PD for getting the junk off the street. People could step on them, and break an ankle, otherwise.
Were these guns actually on the streets?