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The Volunteer Loophole

The church says trained volunteers follow Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms guidelines to make three specific cuts to the firearm to make it no longer legally a gun. There is no transfer of ownership while the gun is still a gun, the church says. The owner must wait on the property for the process to be completed. The owner can either take the parts or donate them to be forged into garden tools. [More]

There are still other questions…

And the volunteers have all had background checks to make sure they’re not prohibited from touching the guns? And training to make sure they’re really unloaded?

[Via Andy M]

Down the Garden Path

First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City hosted Iowa’s first Guns to Gardens event. The drive thru event was supported by volunteers from FPC and Johnson County Moms Demand Action. [More]

How many laws were they allowed to break?

I’m going to ask Len Savage what we need to do to host a Gardens to Guns event. Bring in your unwanted tools…

[Via Michael G]

UPDATE

Ha! Len sent me this:

Old but Gold: Build your own AK-47 from a shovel!

And Democrats want to put you in jail for this.

Numbkrull

“People like me who like to hunt and who love guns, it’s sad almost to watch them get cut up,” said volunteer Dan Krull. “But we are going to support this sort of thing because it is symbolic and sends a message like, ‘Look we need to do something.’” [More]

You’re a real genius, aren’t you, gunkapo Fudd Dan?

So: Who was the FFL who processed the transfers?

Or was this another one of these?

[Via Steve T]

Ohio Guns to Gardens Event Raises Questions of Safety and Legality

How is handing a firearm to a volunteer not an illegal transfer that has not been subjected to a background check? Will you have an FFL on premises? Do you know what an FFL is without looking it up? Will law enforcement be overseeing things? To what extent? [More]

Will we have a repeat of the “gun law” violations we’ve seen at earlier events or have sponsoring radio stations’ legal departments made sure this won’t blow up in their faces?

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