North Carolina voluntary gun surrender event produces big results (LOL Alert)

Hot Air ^ | November 22, 2015 | Jazz Shaw

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A staple among the more "reasonable" gun control advocates in America is the voluntary gun turn-in or buy-back program. Hillary Clinton has recently gone on record as a big supporter of these programs, whether they be optional or… not so optional, like in Australia. If you had any doubt about the effectiveness of such plans, the folks in Greensboro, North Carolina were out to prove you wrong this month. They held just such an event where they would accept any number of weapons, getting them off the streets and presumably out of the hands of criminals.

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So how did that turn out? If you read the coverage from this Time Warner Cable News Network report it was a smashing success. Almost 1,000 people turned out and it was a glorious day to get guns off the streets.

Almost 1000 people took "A Pledge of Non-Violence" Saturday at Destiny Christian Center in Greensboro.

This was to show their commitment to safety across the Gate City.

Gun owners also turned in unwanted firearms and ammunition at the event.

Signing the pledge and turning in weapons was spurred, in part, by an increase in gun violence across the city.

So that's a big win all the way around, right? Sure ... but the details of the "success" become a bit less impressive if you watch the video associated with the report.

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As evidenced by the footage accompanying the story, the gun turn-in apparently resulted in a single BB pistol and a single sheathed hunting knife being "taken off the streets."

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Before you guys laugh too hard at the MSM idiots, you should realize that they made a few dozen libtards feel better ... and that's what's really important!

A couple of decades back, Finland offered a gun turn-in and ammunition exchange; some cached ammo, including WWII German panzerfaust antitank weapons had explosive warheads and were becoming unstable, and worse, their rocket propulsion charges could fizzle. And so the great turn-in was announced. And in one district, was a pretty interesting success.

A local farmer pulled up in front of the supply building on his tractor, towing a WWII German Flak 36 88mm anti-tank/ anti aircraft gun. And the clever Germans had sometimes used them as ground-to-ground artillery.

The helpful farmer also had a small wagon in tow, with several dozen high explosive rounds, and about 50 rounds of armor-piercing antitank rounds. They had to think real hard about what to offer him in exchange, but eventually something was worked out involving an antitank recoilless rifle.

The gun he towed in? It has a nice home in the Finnish national military museum now.