Oakland Gun Buy-Back - No Questions Asked
To Kamika Dunlap, STAFF WRITER at InsideBayArea.com: I have a few questions. Your article says:
The event caused heavy traffic in East, West and Central Oakland as people pulled up at buyback locations with trunk loads of assault weapons.How many people had "trunk loads of assault weapons"?
What is an assault weapon, exactly?
Officials said part of the reason for Saturday's mass turnout was that the buyback was a "no-questions-asked, no-ID-required" event. No shotguns or rifles were accepted.Are the police going to trace the guns turned in to see if any were stolen and return them to the rightful owners?
If no shotguns or rifles were accepted, what's with the picture of a table full of rifles and shotguns?
Guns collected by the police will be turned over to The Crucible, an Oakland nonprofit art studio, to be melted down and sculpted into a peace monument.Do you really think publishing the end location of the firearms is in the public interest?
I am looking forward to reading your answer in comments. Thanks in advance.
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We laughed about this all last night when we saw it on the news, a lot of $250 .22 single-shot rifles!! Sheesh, all that gun-crap you couldn't sell for $50 at a Show and the Cops are buying it up at top-dollar.
One lady said, with a pause in her delivery that made me think she wasn't finished talking except to the TV reporter, "I got rid of a .357 Magnum..." (...and kept the .38Special that shoots easier?)
B.S. on the no rifles - they showed cops hauling around a bunch of rifles and tables spread with them.
I see a couple of trash cans full of pistols. I suppose there are a lot of $100 pistols being turned in for $250. Sounds like a good deal to me.
I read one guy collected a bunch of very old pistols from his neighbors at a retirement home and turned them all in.
He said none of them had been fired or cared for in decades!
Thats going to prevent a whole lot of crime. Sheesh.
Last time they did that some guys from my club went up there and got top-dollar for beaters and mistake-buys...
$250 for junk guns! A joke. Typical Perata.
I wonder if anyone's ever loitered arond one of those buyback thingies and offered to buy guns from people after the "$250 money cards" ran out?
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