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They had to be functioning to collect $100 or $200 gif cards. More important than the actual number of kind of guns that were collected was the statement that people are just sick and tired of guns and violence. There is also the connection that the anti gun violence movement has made to the community and the new people who are willing to do something positive.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)getagrip_already
(14,742 posts)I remember wingers suing states that ran them to force them to sell them to the highest bidder just like other surplus property states dispose of.
AndyS
(14,559 posts)As the NAACP director said the whole point was to get guns off the street, to reduce the shear number of guns in circulation. Guns that may be stolen or sold into the black market and enter the crime stream.
mopinko
(70,090 posts)disable them so they're only good for scrap. high quality metal. will being in some cash.
sl8
(13,749 posts)"The guns will be stored or sold on the open market, under a 2015 state law, and the proceeds given to local schools."
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article264740329.html
Traildogbob
(8,731 posts)soldierant
(6,857 posts)OMGWTF
(3,955 posts)Locrian
(4,522 posts)Except to move the problem somewhere else?
Warpy
(111,255 posts)If you have acquaintances in low places you know they don't go to gun stores, they buy stolen guns off the street, guns that can't be traced back to anyone but their original owner.
Guns are big thief magnets in this town.
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)if they're giving $100 to $200 gift cards, then selling the guns for probably less.
It would be unfortunate if some of those guns end up in local schools.
SergeStorms
(19,199 posts)and invest it in more modern, more lethal weapons. I guess there's no controlling where they spend the money though.