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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?

They did have a picture gallery at the website. At least a couple of the shotguns were definitely sawed-off.

“No one turned in an assault rifle or automatic weapon, which were worth a $75 Bealls gift card.”

I wouldn't turn in this for a $75 gift card!

Could you even fathom someone turning in a class full auto worth $25k for $75?