(Type 99 as seen and tagged on one of the police buy-back tables, and discussed in the article)
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| -Land of the Free |
| Gun buyback program in St. Louis draws hundreds of people, weapons |
| 2017-12-27 |
| [St. Louis Post-Dispatch] ST. LOUIS • Hundreds of people turned up Saturday morning for a well-publicized gun buyback opportunity that officials hope will make the community safer. It was so popular that many left without their hoped-for holiday cash. Lured by the promise of $100 to $200 per weapon, with no questions asked, participants schlepped bags full of pistols, rifles and shotguns, many of them old and rugged. "My brother in Arkansas rabbit-hunted with it all last year," Willie Shelton, 67, of the city’s Penrose neighborhood, said of a pump 20-gauge shotgun that hadn’t been oiled in a long time. "It was just sitting in the corner, and I heard on the news that I could get $150." Behind him, Stan Sisley toted a .22-caliber rifle in a guitar sack. The inherited gun had been in a storage unit in north St. Louis County. Around 10 a.m., he and his wife were at the very end of a line that zigzagged out the Omega Center, 3900 Goodfellow Boulevard, through the parking lot and down the block. "Might as well get rid of it, and I could use the Christmas money," said Sisley, 62. But he didn’t get the chance. After the couple waited in the cold more than two hours, he said, officials began turning people away at 12:15, unless they had assault weapons or wanted to donate their guns. "I think maybe they didn’t expect the turnout that it was," he said. "Maybe they will be more prepared next time." 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. 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. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #10 Hundred clams for a high capacity karate baton. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2017-12-27 14:24 |
| #9 They just had one in Boston two weeks ago - it just looked like Mayor Marty Walsh showboating. |
| Posted by: Raj 2017-12-27 13:41 |
| #8 These programs never do anything, all they ever collect is broken or ancient guns. Just like the article stated. |
| Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 2017-12-27 12:29 |
| #7 The liberal idiocy continues, I see. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2017-12-27 09:59 |
| #6 Cutlery of all sizes, axes, hammers, tire irons, jawbones of asses, and rope still excluded from the 'buy-back' programme. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-27 09:35 |
| #5 My father-in-law was a county deputy. The county had a buy-back program and break-in burglaries with the only items stolen were firearms sky-rocketed. They didn't try it a second time. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-12-27 09:06 |
| #4 ...or doing a firing check for matches with bullets found at crime scenes. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-27 08:40 |
| #3 Probably a 'no questions asked' exercise. I'd be willing to bet no one at the program was running SN checks against weapons reported stolen. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-27 08:34 |
| #2 So much for the new lefty theory that only a few thousand citizens own those millions of weapons in private hands (as another justification for seizure of said property). |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2017-12-27 08:29 |
| #1 (Type 99 as seen and tagged on one of the police buy-back tables, and discussed in the article) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-12-27 08:23 |