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I participated in a gun buyback today.
December 24, 2017, 08:30 AM
WarhorseI participated in a gun buyback today.
Good on you Kevin!
It's important to let the gun buy back people feel good about their effort.
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December 24, 2017, 09:28 AM
Jus228I hope they check serial numbers to make sure nothing is stolen. Anyone that would get rid of an AR for $150 had to have stolen it so didn't care about actual value.
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December 24, 2017, 11:47 AM
slosigquote:
Originally posted by Jus228:
I hope they check serial numbers to make sure nothing is stolen. Anyone that would get rid of an AR for $150 had to have stolen it so didn't care about actual value.
Or it was one they (or someone else) had put together poorly that looked good but wouldn’t run worth a darn.
December 24, 2017, 01:32 PM
chellim1quote:
Originally posted by KevinCW:
Nice of them to take two old broken guns off my hands for 150 bucks each.
Thanks guys!
300 bucks of taxpayer money from the City of St. Louis,... which is broke yet hands out money to sports teams.
It solves nothing, just wastes more money. Pathetic.
Nothing against KevinCW, that money would have just gone to someone else. At least Kevin won't use it for drugs or other self-destructive behavior.
EDIT:
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Doug Albrecht, president of the St. Louis Police Foundation, said $125,000 in donations was raised from the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, individuals and companies such as Ameren and Spire to pay for the guns.
OK, slightly better... the money was donated.
As a member of the Bar Association... happy to contribute. As a paying customer of both Ameren and Spire too.... happy to contribute.
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-rduckwor December 24, 2017, 01:56 PM
KevinCWHey... at least I will put it to na good use.
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LtJLToledo has done a couple, but the gun has to be functional, and they never paid that kind of money, more like $50.00 And the same guys who haunt gunshow parking lots were at the end of the line picking up the good stuff for $75-$100
December 24, 2017, 03:09 PM
mr kablammoquote:
Originally posted by Jus228:
I hope they check serial numbers to make sure nothing is stolen. Anyone that would get rid of an AR for $150 had to have stolen it so didn't care about actual value.
Sounds like one guy may have stolen a 20 ga shotgun from his brother.
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December 24, 2017, 07:23 PM
zoom6zoomquote:
He sold a Japanese rifle from the 1940s that he’d struggled to find ammo for, an old French rifle and 12-gauge shotgun. All for $450.
Gee if only he'd known the two rifles could easily have been worth that much all by themselves...each.
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Modern Day Savagequote:
Leading up to the event, Albrecht expected about 500 to 1,000 guns to be gathered and destroyed. Should there be more, he said then, more fundraising would be needed for another event in the new year.
“As you can see there is a whole group of people lined up around this building,” Mayor Lyda Krewson said at a morning press conference. “This speaks to, first of all, how our community is awash in guns and how difficult that makes our police officers’ job. It also speaks to the good people of this community who went to their basement or garage and said I don’t want this gun to fall into the wrong hands.”
She was flanked by Public Safety Director Jimmie Edwards and Acting Police Chief Lawrence O’Toole, who were pleased by a sampling of buyback weapons that included a stolen handgun, an assault rifle with two 30-round magazines and a sawed-off shotgun.
“Right here is a huge success,” O’Toole said of the weapons selected for the news conference.
Edwards also was pleased.
“I am happy to report that many of the weapons are coming from citizens right here in the city of St. Louis, particularly in this area,” he said.
Late in the day, the police department reported that it had purchased 303 handguns, 533 long guns and six assault rifles.
Well surely, due to the overwhelming success of this buy back program, said success can be demonstrated and documented.
Given the 842 guns turned in; when can we expect to see the accompanying decrease in local gun crime statistics?
Yeah, I'm not holding my breath.
December 25, 2017, 10:38 AM
fatmanspencerquote:
Originally posted by hambony:
I wish we had one in Houston, I inherited two clunkers that if in good condition would be fun, but they are in terrible terrible shape.
Email me some deets and I may take them off ya hands. Rather them get some proper love than some buy back program work. Thought the buy back will pay more.
Used guns deserve a home too