Seattle Gun Buyback Exceeds Expectations, Blows Through $118,000 in Under Three Hours

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36. look at your own post, old chap. they gave the empty tube back.

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i'm sure there are some loaded ones somewhere in some neo-nazi's garage, so...

scumbags poaching unwanted guns to put them back in circulation is pretty amoral and shitty, too.

like guns are a holy icon or something. this rathner a-hole in ON THE BOARD of the NRA. get it?

http://www.npr.org/2013/01/09/168926749/nra-vows-to-stop-tuscon-from-destroying-guns

Todd Rathner, an Arizona lobbyist and a national board member of the NRA, may sue. He has no problem with the gun buyback, but he does have a problem with the fate of the guns once police take possession of them.

"We do believe that it is illegal for them to destroy those guns," he says.

Rathner says Arizona state law forces local governments to sell seized or abandoned property to the highest bidder.

"If property has been abandoned to the police, then they are required by ARS 12-945 to sell it to a federally licensed firearms dealer, and that's exactly what they should do," he says.

That way, Rathner says, the guns can be put back in circulation or given away.

The Tucson city attorney calls that a misreading of the law.

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.