Posted on 12/12/2017 11:30:30 AM PST by Puppage
The New Haven Police Department will be buying back guns Saturday and those guns will be transformed into gardening tools, with help from inmates, and provided to schools to harvest vegetables.
Once people turn guns in for gift cards, officers will destroy those guns “under the tutelage of a local and renowned sculptor,” Gar Waterman, police said.
Volunteer members of Connecticut’s prison inmate population will receive the destroyed weapons and Warden Jose Feliciano and staff from the Connecticut Department of Corrections will oversee them as inmates forge the pieces into gardening tools.
Some of the tools will then be donated to New Haven Public Schools that support agricultural programs, including gardening, and the tools will be used to plant and cultivate vegetable gardens.
The crops will be harvested and donated to area soup kitchens.
The New Haven Police Department gun buyback will be at 710 Sherman Parkway in New Haven, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday. People turning in working guns will get gift cards for American Express, Stop & Shop, Target, Walmart, Kohl’s or Amazon while supplies last.
Single and double-shot (Derringer style) handguns will be worth $25; rifles and shotguns will be worth $50; pistols and revolvers (handguns) will be worth $100 and assault weapons (to be determined by New Haven Police) will be worth $200.
Guns must be delivered unloaded in clear plastic bags and any ammunition must be delivered in a separate bag. The person dropping off the gun will not be charged with illegal possession of that specific firearm, according to police.
They said no questions will be asked and no identification will be required.
What is that in the Bible about turning swords into plowshares?
Saws, knives, weed whackers...
ML/NJ
Giving inmates guns, and telling them to turn them into tools and art in the machine shop. What could -possibly- go wrong?
I don’t see anything that could go wrong with THIS plan...
The Walking Guns
Sling blade
Some of these posts should come with an airline bag.
Some folks calls it a sling blade but I calls it a Kaiser blade.
Great. Now the prison will purchase 3 qty $3500 forges, build a $110,000 fire-resistant area for the forges to sit on, $8500 in fire extinguishers, pay for a $175,000 upgrade to the prison fire-detection system, arrange for the delivery of $250 a week in coal, spend $155,000 in scrubbing equipment for the coal fumes, $350,000 in fire insurance premiums, buy $19,000 in various woodworking tools and $4500 in forge tools, finance the hospital stays of 4-5 inmates a year who suffer 3rd degree burns in the prison hospital, and the same inmates who used to shoot each other with guns will beat the other ones brains out with their newly fabricated shovels.
That they could buy at Home Depot for $20 each.
Mmmmmmm, hmmmm.
Good post.
Well done. Isn’t your fire insurance estimate rather high. And what about Workman’s Comp insurance? That’ll break the bank.
...then the prison will get sued for taking jobs from union workers.
hey! I gots an idear! let’s bring a bunch of guns into prison and let the inmates work on them....what could possibly go wrong?
Unacceptable.
These so-called “tools” could easily be melted down at some future time, and be re-cast into guns again!
The only way to be sure these Evil atoms and molecules comprising the deadly weapons be completely incinerated into a fine gas, and dispersed.
Perhaps NASA could shoot these materials irrevocably contaminated with Gun Karma into the sun, where they would be burned up and unrecoverable.
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