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farminator3000

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6. 206 guns turned in * $50 each = $10,300. if that happened every day in every state..(or once a week)
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 01:42 PM
Jan 2013

200 guns a day * 365 days a year * (50 states+ D.C.) = 3,732,000 guns.

even once a week- 200 guns * 52 weeks a year * 51 = 530,400 guns. not bad!


206 guns turned in at Tucson buyback event

Tucson police say the final tally on guns turned in at a buyback event was 206.

Those turning in the guns for destruction received $50 gift cards. Many of the weapons turned in were old and some didn't work.

The event organized by City Councilman Steve Kozachik was held in a police station parking lot on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the Tucson shooting that wounded Gabrielle Giffords.

Police say the serial number on one gun was obliterated and that it was set aside for further investigation.
http://azdailysun.com/news/state-and-regional/guns-turned-in-at-tucson-buyback-event/article_47c97f5a-151a-55d1-b404-868839f277d9.html


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Councilman Kozachik says the guns aren't being abandoned; they're being turned in voluntarily.

"This is about giving somebody the chance to say, 'Look I'm not comfortable having this weapon, here's an opportunity for me to just get rid of it in a proper manner,' " Kozachik says.

--------Rathner
says the NRA will ask for an accounting of every weapon turned in and then go to court to stop the firearms from being destroyed. If that doesn't work, Rathner says they'll change the law.

"We just go back and we tweak it and tune it up, and we work with our friends in the Legislature and fix it so they can't do it," Rathner adds.

At the gun buyback, gun-rights advocates held signs reading "Cash For Guns" and "Pay Double for Your Guns." As cars pulled into the parking lot, they asked drivers if they wanted to sell their guns privately rather than turn them in. There were few takers.
http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168926749/nra-vows-to-stop-tuscon-from-destroying-guns

what a bunch of maroons!

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