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Originally posted by DennisM:
I'll support his border wall, as long as the guards are on the outside and the searchlights and sensors are facing inward.

We'll need to sort out the Exit Visa requirements, but this could have potential...

Seems to have all the makings of a movie...

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:

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Originally posted by DennisM:
I'll support his border wall, as long as the guards are on the outside and the searchlights and sensors are facing inward.

We'll need to sort out the Exit Visa requirements, but this could have potential...

Seems to have all the makings of a movie...

Ahhh man, I’m digging it. Maybe the lead character could be a special forces guy. With an eye patch.

^^^He needs a really cool name though, a name that says don't fuck with me...

At first I was thinking wolverine, but that's too long. How 'bout Snake...

This could be a money-making opportunity for someone already trapped in NY State.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/...for-each-weapon.html

Gun buyback in Syracuse will offer as much as $250 for each weapon

Updated 8:23 AM; Today 8:23 AM

By Anne Hayes | ahayes@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. — A community gun buyback in Syracuse this month will offer $25 to $250 for each weapon.

The buyback will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 24 at St. Lucy’s Church’s food pantry, 425 Gifford St. It is being hosted by state Attorney General’s Office and the city of Syracuse.

People can bring in guns without providing identification or gun licenses, according to a news release from the AG’s office.

“This event is an amnesty program, and no questions will be asked of the person dropping off the firearm,” according to the news release.

Guns brought to the drop off site must be unloaded and placed in either a plastic bag, a paper bag or a box. There is no limit on the number of firearms one individual can bring. People can transport firearms in a car if they are unloaded and placed in the trunk of the vehicle.

All residents are eligible for the program except licensed gun dealers, and active or former law enforcement officials.

These are the payments offered by the state:

Assault Rifle - $250
Handgun - $150
Rifle or Shotgun - $75
Non-working or antique gun - $25

The payments will be in the form of prepaid gift cards handed out at the site. iPads will also be offered in addition to the gift cards in exchange for working handguns and assault rifles. Only one iPad is allowed per person on a first come first serve basis, regardless of the number of firearms an individual brings.

What a boob. Can't wait to sell my business and move to a free state.

The funny thing is that the attacks on him have primarily been from his own party.

Wow. I still have a couple of old rifles in Syracuse. I actually went to St. Lucy's Catholic School from 5th grade to 11th grade.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sigmund:
This could be a money-making opportunity for someone already trapped in NY State.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/...for-each-weapon.html

Gun buyback in Syracuse will offer as much as $250 for each weapon



Syracuse, N.Y. — A community gun buyback in Syracuse this month will offer $25 to $250 for each weapon.

The buyback will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 24 at St. Lucy’s Church’s food pantry, 425 Gifford St. It is being hosted by state Attorney General’s Office and the city of Syracuse.

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Originally posted by Ironmike57:
Wow. I still have a couple of old rifles in Syracuse. I actually went to St. Lucy's Catholic School from 5th grade to 11th grade.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sigmund:
This could be a money-making opportunity for someone already trapped in NY State.

https://www.syracuse.com/news/...for-each-weapon.html

Gun buyback in Syracuse will offer as much as $250 for each weapon



Syracuse, N.Y. — A community gun buyback in Syracuse this month will offer $25 to $250 for each weapon.

The buyback will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on July 24 at St. Lucy’s Church’s food pantry, 425 Gifford St. It is being hosted by state Attorney General’s Office and the city of Syracuse.

I'd gladly pay $250 for a real assault rifle.

Luciferite kabuki fuckery.

Yes, isolate and amputate Albany, the urban centers, and NYS east of the Hudson. Tow it out to the sea and unloose the torpedoes.

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Originally posted by mr kablammo:
Luciferite kabuki fuckery.

Man, I dig it

I left there in 1978 when I joined the service and have not looked back. Still have relatives there, do not understand why they stay. Other than a good job or family, I don’t know why anyone would live there.

https://www.syracuse.com/crime...ng-it-on-campus.html

Syracuse University student with legally owned firearm arrested for having it on campus

Updated Jul 09, 2021; Posted Jul 08, 2021
By James McClendon | syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse University student was arrested Thursday for having a legally-owned firearm on campus, according to a statement from the Syracuse University Department of Public Safety.

The student had all appropriate gun permits, but New York State law doesn’t allow firearms on college campuses, according to the statement.

The student, who was not identified because of federal privacy laws, was placed on interim suspension, according to the statement.

The Department of Public Safety was alerted to the firearms presence on campus by an individual who reported suspicious activity, according to the statement.

The Syracuse Police Department assisted with taking the student into custody.

This is a developing story and will be updated when more information is available.

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Official policy:

While on University owned or controlled property, unauthorized possession or use of any firearm or other weapon, instrument, or material that can be used to inflict bodily harm on an individual or against University property regardless of whether the individual possesses a valid permit to carry the firearm or weapon is prohibited.

https://policies.syr.edu/polic...ices/weapons-policy/

https://nypost.com/2021/07/07/...l-about-saving-cuomo

Cuomo’s gun-violence emergency slush fund is all about saving… Cuomo
By Bob McManusJuly 7, 2021.


By now you’d think Gov. Andrew Cuomo would be wary of declaring emergencies — can you say nursing homes, boys and girls? But apparently not. He was at it again Tuesday, but this time, he was all lathered up about guns.

Or at least pretending to be. As is usually the case with Cuomo, there is more to his histrionics than is obvious.


Declaring what he termed a “first-in-the-nation gun-violence-disaster emergency,” he announced the creation of an “Office of Gun Violence Prevention,” meant to oversee “a new, comprehensive strategy to build a safer New York.” And by the way, the scheme will include “a $138.7 million investment in intervention and prevention programs.”


That’s a powerful lot of money, and the point-seven-million is a nice touch. Sums that come with decimal points sound so precise and well-vetted, deceptively so when they are part of a smash-and-grab on New York’s fisc perhaps meant more to influence the Assembly’s sexual-harassment investigation of Cuomo than to get guns off city streets.

That last is just a guess, of course, but a not-unreasonable one, given the time-tested bribability of the state Legislature — and the oft-demonstrated, to-the-bone cynicism of Andrew Mark Cuomo.

Cynicism, you ask?

Well, when streets are flecked with blood from Gotham all the way to Buffalo largely because of the criminal-justice “reforms” that Cuomo encouraged and then embraced, what would you call it? The man signed bills rewriting New York’s penal code to favor violent criminals at the expense of innocent bystanders, and he rarely misses an opportunity to hector cops in particular and aggressive law enforcement generally.


These, ahem, root causes of gun violence in New York go unmentioned in Cuomo’s florid declaration of emergency: just paragraph after paragraph hanging it all on insufficient social spending. And promising to do better to the tune of the above-mentioned $138-point-7 million, a towering stack of benjamins.

This is, of course, like cream to kittens.

Which speaks directly to bribability — or at least, to what New York legislators do best: take care of the folks back home, and themselves, while this time perhaps overlooking Cuomo’s well-documented harassment transgressions and that allegedly ongoing impeachment probe.

Here’s a peek.

When Cuomo in mid-June had western New York legislators to dinner at Albany’s executive mansion, the topic was the apportionment of billions in federal infrastructure boodle. Among those present were Assemblywomen Karen McMahon and Monica Wallace, each from Erie County, each a partisan of hometown infrastructure spending — and each a member of the Assembly Judiciary Committee.


That is, each a member of the committee allegedly considering the impeachment of the man dangling the goodies at the mansion dinner.

If that’s not a conflict of interest, then there is no such thing — which, in ethics-flexible Albany, there is not.

And this is just a snapshot. When you consider the infrastructure cash tsunami that soon is to break over New York; the governor’s power over how that money will be spent; what that means to the state’s construction unions alone; and the influence those organizations have with the Legislature — well, it becomes obvious why the Cuomo impeachment process has developed a perhaps-fatal case of the slows.

Given all that, the governor’s $138.7 million is just strawberry jam on the infrastructure cracker — but it’s still real money, and spending it stands to serve two critical gubernatorial purposes.


The pork-barreling is obvious. Discretionary cash for social programs passes through local not-for-profits with close ties to lawmakers, and nobody is about to miss out on that.

And the notion that spending can solve problems that are both behavioral in nature and abetted by permissive politicking lets politicians off the hook but does nothing about crime.

If gun violence really matters to the governor, if he truly is serious about the carnage on the streets of New York’s big cities, he’d be using his $138-point-7 million to hire more cops, not more social workers. Or he’d dedicate his slush fund to “persuading” the Legislature to repeal the criminal-justice “reforms” it imposed on the state two years ago to such sanguinary effect.

But none of that would help with his immediate problem, an impeachment probe by the Assembly and a harassment investigation by Attorney General Letitia James.

Those are the emergencies that matter most because what matters most to Andrew Cuomo is, and always will be, Andrew Cuomo.

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Originally posted by nhracecraft:
^^^He needs a really cool name though, a name that says don't fuck with me...

At first I was thinking wolverine, but that's too long. How 'bout Snake...

I’m suggest calling him Airsoftguy. Have him carry a Mossberg 500, and send him in after dark.

Success! No more GUN VIOLENCE! in Syracuse.

/sarcasm mode off/

https://www.syracuse.com/news/...ack-in-syracuse.html

Nearly 350 guns collected in buyback held in Syracuse

Updated Jul 24, 4:29 PM; Posted Jul 24, 3:32 PM
By Anne Hayes | ahayes@syracuse.com

Syracuse N.Y. – Dozens of people lined up outside St. Lucy’s Church’s food pantry to hand in unwanted guns Saturday in Syracuse.

Some waited in line for two to three hours to turn in their guns.

The buyback, held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 425 Gifford St., was sponsored by the state Attorney General’s Office and the city of Syracuse.

The line started to form at 9 a.m., an hour before the buyback was scheduled to start, said Ed Thompson, assistant attorney general. The line was consistently long for several hours, he said.

People received $25 to $250 for each gun, the prices varying on the type of gun and whether the gun was operable.

Organizers also handed out iPads on a first-come, first-served basis to those who brought working rifles or handguns. The supply of iPads ran out within the first hour.

By the end of the buyback, 342 guns were collected, including about 10 semi-automatic assault rifles, organizers said.

The turnout had exceeded the Attorney General Office’s expectations only an hour into the event, Thompson said. By 11:00 a.m., around 60 guns had already been collected.

More than 160 people came to turn in guns, Thompson said. The event was extended an hour to accommodate people who were still waiting in line, he said.

People were paid in gift cards. Organizers ran out of cards and had to purchase more.

Handguns were the most common guns surrendered, with about 75% still operable, Thompson said. There were also several semi-automatic rifles turned in, he said.

All the guns collected will be cataloged and subsequently destroyed, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said.

Syracuse Police Chief Kenton Buckner said he was very pleased with the turnout He said people should not be surprised to see another buyback in the near future.

The last gun buyback event in Syracuse was in 2009, Walsh said. He agrees with Buckner that the success of this event is an encouraging sign and that the city should consider hosting another buyback to combat gun violence.

“I think it shows that the community wants to be part of the solution,” Walsh said.

Walsh felt that the location on the city’s West Side also had an impact on the turnout. He said that hosting the buyback in a place embedded in the community was very important to him.

Asking people to turn in guns at the Public Safety Building, headquarters of the Syracuse Police Department, could be intimidating, he said. He felt St. Lucy’s, was a more comfortable place for community members.

Editor’s note: This article updated Friday afternoon with the final number of guns turned in.


Staff writer Anne Hayes covers breaking news, crime and public safety. Have a tip, a story idea, a question or a comment? You can reach her at ahayes@syracuse.com.

Syracuse population: 142K+
Gun buy back participants: 160.
Yep, the community wants to be a part of the solution.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Syracuse population: 142K+
Gun buy back participants: 160.
Yep, the community wants to be a part of the solution.

Wonder how much of those buyback proceeds found their way back into local gun shops.

This should piss off every lawful gun owner. All the stolen guns won’t be returned to the victims.