Notes from the Resistance
Miami Police Department bought guns off the street for Ukraine [More]
And what did they do with them?
Turns out the “buyback” was from last year.
The “Only Ones” claimed “Success!”
Kevin Sona and Lee Williams called “BS!”
I imagine they’ve got all the ITAR “t’s” crossed and “i’s” dotted…?
I don’t suppose sending guns to citizens protecting OUR border from foreign invaders is on anybody’s to-do list…?
[Via Jess]
The guns will be collected anonymously, unloaded and stored in a locked safe. They will be turned in to Cleveland Police Department’s 4th precinct headquarters every day. [More]
Brandon can accept transfers without background checks? And with “prohibited persons” on staff? Does ATF know about this?
Hey, they don’t have a “No Guns” sticker on the door, do they?
I didn’t imagine there was much demand for Fois Gras and Cuisses de Grenouille among the gang bang set…
[Via JG]
Oakland Police officials and nonprofit Guns to Gardens hosted an event on Saturday seeking to exchange guns for gardening tools, A’s tickets, gift cards and other items in an effort to curb gun violence. [Watch]
This is Anne Pressly, reporting.
[Via 1Gat]
Related UPDATE
Looks like there are plenty of herbivores in Colorado as well.
[Via bondmen]
Man makes $21,000 selling 3D-printed guns during NY AG gun buyback program [More]
Does the state have the authority to ensure its “No Questions Asked” promise will keep the feds at bay on its “engaging in the business of dealing in firearms” prohibition for non-FFLs? Now that he’s on state and fed radar, I hope he gets qualified tax advice on how to report that.
[Via bondmen]
Good grief.
Former Laurel police chief convicted of 8 counts of attempted murder in string of fires [More]
The important thing to remember is his department wants your guns.
[Via Michael G]
“I don’t want that at home, I don’t even know how to shoot,” said the Houston, Texas, retiree before handing them over to the authorities… “There is really no other safe way than this to part with it,” said the 60-year-old… “We have to get rid of them,” the 69-year-old man said, handing over seven weapons. [More]
It really is true. There’s no fool like an old fool.
[Via Steve T]
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For this reason, I will be introducing the Safer Neighborhoods Gun Buyback Act of 2023… [Watch]
If at first you don’t succeed, right, genius?
Democrat constituents do it to themselves– and not just politically.
The object is to not let them do it to the rest of us.
[Via Jess]
233 firearms collected in Summit County gun buyback event [More]
So if “233 firearms were collected at the event and $34,325 in gift cards were given out,” even given the maximum payout of $100 per working gun (which assumes no non-working guns paid out at $25 each were collected), that opens the question of whose pockets the other (at least) $11,025 in gift cards ended up in…
The “authorized journalist” who wrote this up probably didn’t want to press the issue because math is racist.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Tangentially-related UPDATE
I wanted to check out the Summit County Sheriff’s social media to see if they were bragging about this so I could ask them about their addition, and the cover of their magazine was the top post:
Every supermarket I go to around here warns against putting children in the car basket, and indeed, the Consumer Product Safety Commission warns in an alert:
Every year, thousands of children are treated in U.S. hospital emergency rooms for falls from shopping carts. Falls from shopping carts are among the leading causes of head injuries to young children and most often occur when children stand up in the child seat or the cart basket.
So it figures the same “Only Ones” encouraging people who may not know the first thing about guns (or how to clear them) to handle and transport them are happily displaying how oblivious they are to basic child safety in general on the cover of their quarterly bulletin.
Then again, consider where the buck stops and the party that she represents.
Nearly a dozen guns taken off Austin streets in Gun Surrender Program [More]
That’s pathetic when you can’t just say “11” and have to blow it up by one.
Nice of the moronic “Only Ones” functionary to admit “buybacks don’t work.”
Besides, “surrender” makes them sound so much more awe-inspiring. And it’s closer to what government has in mind anyway.
[Via Jess]
Man makes $21,000 selling 3D-printed guns during NY AG gun buyback program [More]
You can bet they’re furiously looking for some way they can ignore “no questions asked” and arrest him.
David Codrea on OH gun buybacks and a brief Revolutionary War history lesson [Listen]
For anyone who missed it yesterday and cares to listen in…
Here’s my challenge for the County Council and Sheriff Featheree: You’re enticing people of unknown abilities to handle and transport guns. You’ll no doubt tell them to make sure it’s not loaded. How will you ensure they know how to first safely handle it and then safely do that? [More]
What could ensure more “commonsense gun safety” than enticing novices who don’t know the rules to handle and transport guns they may not know how to clear?
As an aside, there must have been a copyright issue I didn’t know about because I picked a different photo than the stock one they used– those guns don’t look like pieces of rusted and worn-out junk at all.
In fact, the study said a 7.7% increase in crimes involving a gun occurred in those cities and counties in the immediate two months after a buyback. [More]
The Philadelphia Inquirer Iditorial Board has an about-damn-time epiphany of sorts, then wrings its hands and wails “Something must be done,” all the while clueless as to what that something needs to be.
[Via Jess]
Delaware offers cash to owners of newly illegal large-capacity gun magazines [More]
Coerced surrender is still theft.
Mike would have known what to do.
[Via Jess]
Together they created Richmond’s first drive-thru gun buyback program where people drove up with their unloaded guns in their trunks for officials to evaluate. [More]
If people like widows who know nothing about guns want to participate, how do they safely determine they’re unloaded? And as for the contention that “research into whether the efforts led to a reduction in gun violence remains unclear,” how many more decades and thousands of events need to be observed and analyzed before we have a testable hypothesis? And before proponents can honestly claim “success,” huge or otherwise?
On top of everything else, it appears you and I paid for it.
[Via Jess]
Will Richmond’s gun ‘buyback’ curb violent crime? [More]
No. Of course not. Any fool could see that it won’t.
Even the feds have admitted it.
But it gets headlines, giving kneejerk Democrat voters ignorant enough to give power to incompetent frauds like Stoney a false sense that they are “doing something.”
[Via Mack H]
Houston has banned 3D printed guns from buybacks. It was fun while it lasted and our hero cleared almost 3K in profit. [More]
So now, when government tells us what a great threat “ghost guns” are, throw it back that the “Only Ones” are rejecting voluntary agreements to “take them off the streets.”
[Via WiscoDave]
