[tarawa]

How about someone set up a booth near this one, and offer $75 for any decent weapons?

[spqrzilla9]

Gun buybacks == hot gun dumpsite.

[PatrioticAmerican]

"buyback"? As thought the government owned the guns in the first place and now wants to buy them back?

[PatrioticAmerican]

"Buyback" lines are a great place to get great firearms at cheap prices!

[Lazamataz]

IOWA????

We are sunk.

[hollywood]

"They will not be asked to identify themselves."

Of course not. The new facial recognition cameras will do the job just fine. If you go, where a ski mask.

[HusbandMan]

How about someone set up a booth near this one, and offer $75 for any decent weapons?

My thoughts, exactly. What a great little business oppotunity. But then the PD would probly shut you down for being better at business than they are. Private citizens are almost always better at business than political bodies.

[chainsaw]

How about someone set up a booth near this one, and offer $75 for any decent weapons?

Either that or someone should tell them to take their expensive guns to the next gun show and get real money for them. All those guns will not get destroyed. I know cops that always filter out the extremely valuable ones,and keep them for themselves.

What a rip off.

[Dinsdale]

Any limit on the number.

Bet you could turn out a functional zip-gun for about $5, maybe less.

[cf_river_rat]

...non-working weapons will not be accepted...Remaining firearms will be destroyed unless they are classified as antiques under state law.

OOOOOooh nooooooooooo

[boris]

If the "buy back" is "no questions asked" and if the proper paperwork is not filled out and filed, then the transfer is illegal traffic in firearms and everyone involved is a federal felon.

I am no lawyer but so it seems to me.

What would happen if someone dropped a dime and reported that illegal trafficking is occurring at such-and-such a place, at such-and-such a time...to the BATF?

Yeah, I know; they would probably do nothing.

'Course, one could then give a press conference announcing that the allegation had been presented and that we await the BATF's response.

If the Mayor, Police Chief, D.A., et al are involved, they should be arrested.

Or so it seems to this engineer.

--Boris

[45Auto]

Officers will accept guns at the National Cattle Congress's pavilion

And then you might as well just board the cattle cars for the trip to the "showers"; why waste time?

[Standing Wolf]

Molon labe!

[captnemo1]

Call the local police and ask them for their FFL number.
Call the local paper and advise that the police are illegally transfering firearms.
Call the local D.A. and ask for the FFL number. Ask them about the limit of their liability in this instance.
Call the FBI and ask if the city has to comply with the law. Ask them to call the D. A.'s office to confirm this.

End of "Gun Buybacks" in this city.

[DaveCooper]

A successful gun buyback program last year has

More "objectivity" from the AP: using the word successful as though it were an indisputable fact.

So, what do they mean by "successful"? Was there a sudden drop in violent crime right after the event? Did accidental firearm injuries go down? What?

[TooBusy]

Money for the program comes from a $25,000 U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development grant.

Your tax dollars at work!