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Baltimore nonprofit collects guns for Google Chromebook laptops
The Baltimore Sun ^ | July 25, 2015 | Doug Donovan

Posted on 07/26/2015 11:58:15 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Fifteen donated firearms lay on a table inside the Baltimore Urban League Center. A total of 17 weapons were anonymously exchanged for laptops provided by Street Geeks of Baltimore. Following the collection, the weapons will be destroyed by the Baltimore Police Department.

As the lyrics of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On" echoed through the wooden rafters of the historic Orchard Street Church on Saturday, Richard Wilson stood in a line waiting to pick up a Google Chromebook computer in exchange for turning in a gun to Baltimore police..

The 66-year-old Windsor Mills resident grew up attending services at the church and was happy to return as part of an effort to remove guns from homes while highlighting computer-related careers for Baltimore's youth.

Wilson turned in his late father's .38-caliber snubnose revolver to officers dressed in military-looking green S.W.A.T. uniforms outside the church before climbing the steps to the church to collect his Chromebook.

The heavy police presence — including blocking off vehicle traffic with cruisers and police tape at each end of the 500 block of Orchard Street — contributed to low turnout for the event, said Lance Lucas, chief executive of Digit All Systems and organizer of the exchange. The group collected 17 guns Saturday....

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; banglist; gunbuyback; maryland
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To: Chainmail

http://mobile.gunauction.com/displayitem.cfm?itemnum=11423119


21 posted on 07/27/2015 5:51:58 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Cool. I've got one of those crappy chromebooks. I could use a new gun.

Oh, wait.

Nevermind.

22 posted on 07/27/2015 6:25:15 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

That’s a good trade. They can sell those guns for a lot more money than a Chromebook costs.


23 posted on 07/27/2015 6:26:04 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Viking2002

You can wipe the hard drive and install Linux on some of them.


24 posted on 07/27/2015 6:27:02 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: Chainmail

Appears to have been re-bolted.


25 posted on 07/27/2015 6:28:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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To: AppyPappy

Nah - looks original and cherry. I’d have bought it.


26 posted on 07/27/2015 6:37:06 AM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: AppyPappy
I'm not knocking them completely, mind you. They do have their conveniences (like when I'm sitting in on the throne LOL). But they're not the Lexus of laptops. They're the Yugo. LOL


27 posted on 07/27/2015 4:02:04 PM PDT by Viking2002 (The Avatar is back by popular request.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Yes, let’s get guns out of the homes, so that the only guns will be the ones on the streets.

People turning in guns and Cheb Bush: separated at birth?

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


28 posted on 07/29/2015 12:09:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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