Mpls gun buyback -

[Janitor]

Money for guns, latest effort to get guns off Minneapolis streets



For two days only, a group calling itself Project Cease Fire will be buying back guns in Minneapolis.

They'll take the guns for one day in north Minneapolis, and the following day in south Minneapolis. The program comes amid what project officials say is an epidemic of gun violence, not only in Minneapolis but around the country.

Details of the program were unveiled Wednesday in north Minneapolis at the site of the first buy back. It will take place Friday from noon to midnight.

"Weapons of mass destruction are here in our own country and we have to cease fire," said Shane Price of Project Cease Fire. Price said the leading cause of death among black teens age 17 and under is gun violence.

Under the program, those turning in semi automatic pistols will be given a $75 Visa gift card, and those with revolvers to hand over will receive $50 gift cards. Those are the two kinds of guns most often associated with street violence.

Police Chief William McManus was on hand for the kick-off and said those turning in guns need not fear law enforcement. "There's absolutely no one who will turn in a gun who will be fingerprinted, ID'd or questioned."

McManus added, "For every gun not turned in there's a possibility a life that will be lost on the street."

Community activist Spike Moss spoke directly to young people in attendance telling them, "you must get into their face. You must tell them enough is enough."

Several people who lost loved ones to gun fire were also in attendance. Anita Penn told how her son was walking home, was struck by gun fire and killed. Carl Moore talked about how his honor roll daughter was at a party and was hit by stray gunfire. "She got struck in the neck and now she's a quadriplegic."

The money for the buy-back program is being put up by the Minneapolis Foundation Project.

Organizers have asked the news media to stay away from the two locations where guns will be turned in so as not to deter those coming forward.

Friday, from noon to midnight, guns can be turned in at the old Broadway Rental building at 2101 West Broadway in north Minneapolis.

Then Saturday, again from noon to midnight, guns can be turned in at Urban Ventures located at 3041 4th Avenue South.

Price said the leading cause of death among black teens age 17 and under is gun violence.

Must not have cars or swimming pools in their neighborhoods.

 

[foghornl]

Wonder if they will be "Buying-Back" stuff like old BB & Pellet shooters, paintball markers, etc.


Quite a few years back, at one of these inane "Buy-Back" thingys, I went to Wally World, bought a $20 Daisy BB gun...drove to the "Buy-Back", sold new [but not in box] Daisy for $25...back to Wally-World, buy another $20 Daisy. Drive to the "Buy-Back", sell for $25. . . . .

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Made several ciruits of this, until the loony leftists figured it out, and told me not to come back

At close-of-business, I had enough money to buy a couple of bricks of .22LR, and a box of .357Mag ammo....

 

[TexasRifleman]

Woo Hooo!!

Time to gather up the Lorcins and Jennings.... $75 each? That's a money maker....

 

[armoredman]

Dagnabbit - never happenes here in AZ, and I know a buddy with a broken US Revolver Co .32....

 

[Sinsaba]

I'm not saying I do. And even if I did I wouldn't. But how much would a hot G17 bring on the street? $75? Better yet, scratch the word hot. How much would the G17 that my dear old grandma left me fetch?

As Buggs would say, "What a bunch of maroons"

 

[Old Fuff]

I object to this obvious and pollitically incorrect discrimination...

My revolver is just as good as somebody's elses junky automatic pistol. (Probably made of plastic too).

Tell them Democrats that I will lead the march... Everybody get your candles...

 

[merk]

This same thing happened in Watts(south central) California a few weeks ago. The genius anchorwoman reported that a "semi automatic machine gun pistol" had been confiscated.

These buyback programs are subpar. Someone should machine together a few POS .22 Saturday Night Specials and make some money. If I had the tools and the know how, id do it.

 

[Kframe]

Everytime I read about one of these "buybacks" :banghead: I wonder if it would be legal to go down there with about $300 and eyeball the goods as the sheeple arrive?

I mean, for all the Lorcins and Brycos there has to be a 1911 or S&W or CZ every once in awhile, maybe?

You'd almost certainly have to be off the grounds of whatever location it's being held, but would it be legal?
"Ma'am, I'd like to give you $100 cash for that revolver instead of the $50 gift card you'll get inside. Look, here's my carry permit."
Could it work?


I don't know if I have the cahones to try it, if it is legal, but it would be a great way to piss off the anti's.

-K

 

[HankB]

Kframe: +1, you beat me to it.

 

[Ego Archive]

Going and perusing the buyback was already discussed by several of the members on our local carry board.

It's been discussed quite a bit here:

http://www.twincitiescarry.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=803

 

[medic_guns]

yeah, no questions asked. If it is a gun used in a murder, don't worry, no questions asked.

What a bunch of dumb liberals.

 

[outofbattery]

Revolvers are $25 less dangerous than semi-automatics?

 

[Meplat]

yeah, no questions asked. If it is a gun used in a murder, don't worry, no questions asked.

What a bunch of dumb liberals.

Yeah. Sad ain't it. No reason to find a river to dump it in anymore...cap a rival? No problem. You can always get rid of the evidence AND make a quick $50 or $75 bucks.

Then again, I wonder what one of them semi-automatic machine gun pistols would bring?

Last one the fools did in Jackson, they showed the results of on TV like proud new Papa's showing first baby pictures.

I'd seriously doubt that one in fifty of the pieces of crap they had bought would even fire.

 

[scout26]

Hey !!!

If anyone from MPLS goes to this thing, tell them that they need to have one down here in Chicago. I've got two real junkers.....eerrrr..... super deadly terrorist drive-by weapons that I need to get rid ...uhhhh.... I mean that they scare me.....: one's a ancient Winchester .22 pump sniper assualt rifle, and the other is a Chinese knock-off of a .32 (?) Browning 1903 cop killer machine gun pistol.

If revolvers are worth $50 and semi-auto are worth $75, then my long-gun should be worth $100. So if I get $175 for these two instruments of evil, I'm up $174.98 !!!! I wanna be first in line so that after I get my gift cards or cash, I can look over what else is being turned and make offers on the "diamonds in the rough".

 

[scout26]

Made several ciruits of this, until the loony leftists figured it out, and told me not to come back

At close-of-business, I had enough money to buy a couple of bricks of .22LR, and a box of .357Mag ammo....

I hope you at least had the courtesy to go back, show them what you bought, and properly thank them.

 

[foghornl]

I hope you at least had the courtesy to go back, show them what you bought, and properly thank them.

Yes, I thanked them very politely, in spite of how rude they were about My "antics".

And I showed off my last new Daisy, too.

 

[Kframe]

I like money as much as the next guy, but I would destroy or donate to a gunsmithing school any non-functioning firearm loooooong before I would give the anti's the pleasure of adding one of my guns to their list of "evil guns off the street".

No way am I gonna give them any 'ammo', sorry about the pun, in their quest to strip our freedoms.

Remember, they will only keep having buybacks if people keep falling for it.

Seriously, I would hacksaw a Jennings apart rather than cow down to those morons.

Just my $.02, -K

 

[Maxwell]

"Buy back"?
That infers the gun was theirs to begin with.

More like a junk buying program.
I wonder how many police officers they kept busy with that nonsense.

 

[TheEgg]

Several people who lost loved ones to gun fire were also in attendance. Anita Penn told how her son was walking home, was struck by gun fire and killed. Carl Moore talked about how his honor roll daughter was at a party and was hit by stray gunfire.

The soft, fuzzy brain of a sheeple at work.

"Gun fire" is just a natural phenomenon, sort of like rain, wind, or lightning. It is not connected to the criminal or negligent actions of a human being, it just "is". Thus, it makes perfect sense to conclude that limiting guns will limit "gun fire". We don't really need to worry about the culture of violence that festers in our inner cities, do we?

Right? Right? Anyone?

 

[aguyindallas]

What amazes me about this is that they did not mention that the number one used gun in street crimes is AK-47 like all the other media morons usually do.

 

[nomadboi]

I sent a letter to a local PD once, asking if any guns they had slated to destroy could instead be bought and converted to dummy 'non-guns' for use in the local film and theatre industry (hey, maybe by yours truly! ). No dice.

Such a waste...

 

[Standing Wolf]

For every gun not turned in there's a possibility a life that will be lost on the street.

Yeah, and every breath you take could be your last, too. So?

 

[Crosshair]

Hmmm, I need to go get some tubing and make a few 12 Gauge zip guns. It costs about $10 in materials to make one. (I need to work on my welds though.) I could get quite a bit doing this.

/ATF, please note: I am not going to actualy do this.

 

[f4t9r]

They could buy mine back if I can name the price. $$$$$$$

 

[rabidgoldfish]

Hmmm, I need to go get some tubing and make a few 12 Gauge zip guns. It costs about $10 in materials to make one. (I need to work on my welds though.) I could get quite a bit doing this.

/ATF, please note: I am not going to actualy do this.

I'd have to look up the law, but I think you could do this with a long enough pipe to make it not a SBS. They might not like you manufacturing them though.