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In reply to the discussion: L.A. gun buyback yields rocket launcher, assault weapons [View all]ileus
(15,396 posts)17. Hopefully they'll sell these soon.
Even old junk can net a lot of usable parts...
Some may even be worth selling the whole device.
I don't mind these kinds of programs, guns don't belong with people that won't respect and take care of them.
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No in this group it means you are taking away the peoples right to defend themselves from
doc03
May 2012
#2
What if the money spent on this program had been directed to the gang detail
Simo 1939_1940
May 2012
#19
See, that's the difference between pro-rights and pro-restriction supporters.
Simo 1939_1940
May 2012
#39
I don't think the idea was for you to use it to buy a more lethal weapon, but then you guys
Hoyt
May 2012
#15
Members of the gun culture are not nearly as morally pure as some here like to contend.
Hoyt
May 2012
#9
Then fine, you have little need for a gun if you avoid those folks. Yet you still pack and promote
Hoyt
May 2012
#24
A liberal criminologist with credentials that *far* exceed yours and mine
Simo 1939_1940
May 2012
#20
So I guess you support making money off an honest attempt by city government to help control crime?
Hoyt
May 2012
#59
Easy way to prevent that, ya know- just stop these security theater 'buybacks'.
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#73
At bottom, it's a bet that any of those guns would have ever been used harmfully,
petronius
May 2012
#6
It would be a huge miscarriage of justice if someone who had a stolen real, live, military weapon...
slackmaster
May 2012
#22
Why isn't it a miscarriage of justice when any firearm is stolen & turned in like this?
baldguy
May 2012
#31
How dare you misattribute my position? I've made my opinion on buy-backs abundantly clear, baldguy.
slackmaster
May 2012
#36
Nope. Your title on reply #31 misrepresents my position. I'll explain it to you one more time.
slackmaster
May 2012
#55
I am in for $10 since the article specified that that there was no rocket with it.
ManiacJoe
May 2012
#30
"The article"? Which one of the six different articles I've posted are you referring to?
baldguy
May 2012
#32
I don't think that is the idea, but I'm sure you are crying over all those guns going to "waste."
Hoyt
May 2012
#25
Me too. I have some old junk guns I would love to exchange for gift cards. N/T
GreenStormCloud
May 2012
#67
Actually, I do question the idea that somthing that one person calls "common sense" is automatically
slackmaster
May 2012
#76
You're going to compare democracy with the scientific method and measuring tools?
ellisonz
May 2012
#77
Yes, in a sense that may be too abstract for you to understand without some help
slackmaster
May 2012
#79
Ha! I had forgotten that one: "LAPD gets swindled, buys back de-milled movie replicas"
friendly_iconoclast
May 2012
#84
Here's a closeup of the big, bad, scary, rocket launcher. Note the word "TRAINER" on it!
Johnny Rico
May 2012
#85