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County officials will swap $50 gift certificates for unwanted guns
Daily Herald (Illinois) ^
| 12/01/05
| Tony Gordon
Posted on 12/02/2005 9:47:09 AM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim
If I had the cash I'd pay $51 for each one.
To: kiriath_jearim
hey folks!
is that gun of yours broken? too rusty to shoot anymore?
is it (heh heh) too hot to handle?
then sell it to us!
that's right! good old trader bob will give you 50 bucks for your old, busted, hot gun!
C'mon down!
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posted on
12/02/2005 9:50:24 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: kiriath_jearim
We can hope the criminals'll turn theirs in...
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posted on
12/02/2005 9:50:53 AM PST
by
yldstrk
(My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
To: kiriath_jearim
Firearm Owners Identification card requirements for those turning in weapons will be waived for those who do not have cards, but those who do are encouraged to bring them when taking a weapon to the stations.I bet they are....bring in a gun that has no paperwork on it..show them your CCW and lose it because you have an unregistered gun.
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posted on
12/02/2005 9:51:08 AM PST
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: kiriath_jearim
FANTASTIC !!!
I`ll bring in my rusted and seized .22 which is worth NOTHING and get 50 bucks for it !
Sucker born every minute :-)
To: kiriath_jearim
Maybe if they offer me double the value for each one, I would sell them some of my extras, but $50.. that is just a joke.. I have a friend who is a gunsmith who could sell them a bunch of worthless trash guns...
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posted on
12/02/2005 9:58:29 AM PST
by
mnehring
(My Karma ran over your Dogma)
To: kiriath_jearim
They had those buy backs in Cook County, IL and I know at least three people that are gun collectors and had a lot of old non-working, rusty guns in boxes that they turned in at 50 bucks a piece. 20 guns = $1,000. They made a least that much for getting ridding of junk! Ain't America great!
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posted on
12/02/2005 9:59:37 AM PST
by
KeyLargo
To: camle
hey folks!
is that gun of yours broken? too rusty to shoot anymore?
is it (heh heh) too hot to handle?
then sell it to us!
that's right! good old trader bob will give you 50 bucks for your old, busted, hot gun!
C'mon down!
Then, take your $50 and use it to buy yourself a new and better gun! (which many people interviewed at some of these swaps have admitted doing before. If I had a bunch of garbage pistols, why not?)
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:03:34 AM PST
by
proud_yank
(Experience Tolerance: tell a liberal you own guns and drive an SUV!)
To: kiriath_jearim
get unwanted firearms, ammunition and accessories out of houses and greatly decrease the incidence of tragedy
There is no solid evidence that a gun in the home is dangerous.
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:06:45 AM PST
by
rey
To: kiriath_jearim
“Our goal is to get unwanted firearms, ammunition and accessories out of houses and greatly decrease the incidence of tragedy.”
Then why are you not also collecting cars, swimming pools, baseball bats, knives, clubs, hammers, sticks, electrical cords, piano wire, steel toe boots, etc. that also COMMONLY result in a tragic loss of life?????
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:07:33 AM PST
by
proud_yank
(Experience Tolerance: tell a liberal you own guns and drive an SUV!)
To: Puppage
The Illinois Firearm Owner's Identification card is not a CCW, it is a requirement for the simple ownership of a firearm in Illinois. Illinois residents cannot legally TOUCH a firearm without an FOID.
There is absolutely NO CCW in Illinois, and handguns are completely banned in much of the Chicago area.
To: All
At the station, residents are asked to leave the gun in the trunk, go into the station and an officer will be sent to retrieve the weapon from your vehicle. Wow, they angled for a free car search.
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:15:29 AM PST
by
pepperhead
(Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
To: Para-Ord.45
"..rusted and seized .22 "There. I was trying to think if I had ever seen a gun that was only worth $50.
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:27:26 AM PST
by
Designer
(Just a nit-pick'n and chagrin'n)
To: proud_yank
Not to mention the villages and county get the sales tax when you go to cash-in the $50 certificates.
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posted on
12/02/2005 10:29:43 AM PST
by
twoputt
To: kiriath_jearim
In the program’s first year, residents brought in 408 guns, Del Re said. The total jumped to 478 in 2002, then fell to 205 the following year.
too funny ! Total "jumped" 70, but "fell" 273.
should have said , "crept up" then "dropped like a rock".
To: pepperhead
Just what I was thinking.
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posted on
12/02/2005 11:32:11 AM PST
by
Petruchio
( ... .--. .- -.-- / .- -. -.. / -. . ..- - . .-. / .. .-.. .-.. . --. .- .-.. / .- .-.. .. . -. ...)
To: kiriath_jearim
Similar to what some software companies used to do with 'bug bounties' if testers could find show stopper bugs before product release.
Dilbert exposed that gambit in a strip where the QA and Developer engineers high fived each other saying "We're rich!"
To: kiriath_jearim
I hope some smart gun collectors are around to pay an extra few bucks for the good guns before the cops get their hands on them. The horror stories of some old lady turning in the Luger or Colt SAA her Daddy had always make me cringe. OTOH, I'm sure the cops always grab all the decent guns before they hit the smelter.
To: bushbuddy
LOL No wonder all the libs would be drooling over such a program. On the other hand, I kind of like that they set up a program to which we can sell our crappy non-working firearms to, at a profit!
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posted on
12/02/2005 12:15:11 PM PST
by
proud_yank
(Experience Tolerance: tell a liberal you own guns and drive an SUV!)
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