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NM:More than 300 guns sold at sheriff buy back event(and private sales!)
kob.com ^ | 23 February, 2012 | Maria Guerrero

Posted on 02/24/2013 6:54:56 PM PST by marktwain

Gun owners got another opportunity to turn over their firearms to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office on Saturday.

In exchange owners got a gift card worth up to $200.

Private gun buyers were also on hand at the buy-back and so was a local woman who opposed what they’re legally allowed to do on the sidelines.

People returned 326 guns, including two assault weapons, and BCSO handed out $41,000 in gift cards in exchange.

Before BCSO collects and destroys a room full of various firearms, owners are presented with another option outside.

Deputies kept a group of private buyers across the street.

(Excerpt) Read more at kob.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: albuquerque; banglist; guncontrol; nm; secondamendment; turnin
I believe it was against New Mexico law to keep the private buyers across the street from the sellers. New Mexico has a very strong preemption amendment in its Constitution. These deputies should be taken to court for infringenment of the right to assembly and the New Mexico Constitution.
1 posted on 02/24/2013 6:55:03 PM PST by marktwain
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To: marktwain

LOL, I like it!


2 posted on 02/24/2013 7:02:08 PM PST by sickoflibs (Losing to Dems and Obama is not a principle! Its just losing.)
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To: marktwain
You are correct, the applicable language is found in Art II, Sec 6:
[...] No county or municipality shall regulate, in any way, an incident of the right to keep and bear arms.
The above has case-law holding that such extends to the sale of firearms for the simple/obvious reason that a regulation on sales is a regulation on the keeping -- if you're in NM & interested you can likely go to your county courthouse and examine the annotated State Constitution for the exact cases.
3 posted on 02/24/2013 7:05:45 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: marktwain

[People returned 326 guns, including two assault weapons, and BCSO handed out $41,000 in gift cards in exchange.]

That’s about $125 per weapon. I wish they’d come to my town. I’ve got a pile of junk I’d like to unload.


4 posted on 02/24/2013 7:09:49 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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To: marktwain

You really have to wonder how many of these guns were used in crimes and the perps just want to get rid of them “no questions asked”.


5 posted on 02/24/2013 7:09:54 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Progressive, Marxist liberals do not evolve, they morph into fascists.)
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To: OneWingedShark

The same way the law is here in Michigan as well. Lord knows many cities have tried to pass laws banning guns but the state constitution is clear.


6 posted on 02/24/2013 7:12:46 PM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: marktwain

Two assault weapons? For $200 each? ... Full auto select fire weapons are worth thousands more than that!


7 posted on 02/24/2013 7:22:56 PM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: marktwain

I always cringe a little when I see the words “buy back”. The government isn’t buying back nor reclaiming anything it owns. Freepers know this but it just seems like giving in to the new world double speak lingo to not parenthesize this phrase.


8 posted on 02/24/2013 7:24:16 PM PST by broken_clock (Nuke'm til they glow, then shoot'em in the dark.)
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To: marktwain
"I think they're violating the spirit of the gun buy-back," said Jill Gatwood of Albuquerque.

Well, they obviously are. So what? Does she feel that anti-rights people have no right to make THEIR opinion known at gatherings of pro-rights people? Impartial rules are a bitch, bitch.

9 posted on 02/24/2013 7:32:21 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: marktwain
We need to teach the deputies where to stand. Local law enforcement will be integral to combatting federal and state overreach. They will be needed to literally keep the peace. The consequences of not doing so are grave. It is the difference between war and peace.
10 posted on 02/24/2013 7:38:28 PM PST by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - Shall not be questioned)
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To: marktwain

I fail to see how anyone but a flaming leftwingnut can justify spending taxpayer dollars on “buying back” guns. What does this have to do with law enforcement? What right does the Sheriff have to do this—apart from contagious idiocy?

Depriving gangsters of their guns would make sense. But buying guns from ordinary citizens? It makes no more sense than cash for clunkers. Waste of taxpayer dollars.


11 posted on 02/24/2013 7:48:22 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Still Thinking

“I think they’re violating the spirit of the gun buy-back,” said Jill Gatwood of Albuquerque.
Gatwood still remembers how guns changed her life in 1981. “I was working at a store and a man showed up and… held a gun against my back,” she said.
Luckily he didn’t shoot her. Now, she doesn’t want guns to somehow get into the wrong hands.

Guess what Jill your attacker probably did the same thing to someone else yesterday. Maybe his next victim will have enough sense to kill him.


12 posted on 02/24/2013 7:49:50 PM PST by cquiggy
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To: broken_clock

I hate that term “buy back,” too.

On Saturday, there was a “buy back” in the southern Maine town of Falmouth. On the evening news, the clueless anchorette kept using the term, “Take back.” I swore at the TV.


13 posted on 02/24/2013 8:27:44 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (November 6, 2012.....A day that will live in infamy!)
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To: marktwain
People returned 326 guns,...

Pffft. I wonder how many people in NM personally own more than 326 guns?
It's probably in the thousands.

14 posted on 02/24/2013 8:43:17 PM PST by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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To: MHGinTN
Two assault weapons? For $200 each? ... Full auto select fire weapons are worth thousands more than that!

Not if the manufacturer of those assault weapons is Daisy.

15 posted on 02/24/2013 9:25:38 PM PST by Greysard
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To: Greysard
I'm not in the media. But I get your spot-on point. I have a CO2 run one that holds twelve round .177 discs for repeater action ... I'm sure the oligarchs will want that registered dontchaknow.
16 posted on 02/25/2013 6:29:55 AM PST by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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