the money is donated, the people get grocery cards.
those same people earned back 400-500% on each gun thanks to the current gun-rush; gun speculators, if you will. It's similar to the stock market, but in firearms.
that is preposterous and should be illegal, of course. great, people make 500% profits on the black market.
that is just the way the nra wants it, good for you!
wow, you bought a gun and made money off it. pay any tax? keep any records?
Regarding the evidence-destruction complaint Ector made outside the event, Stephens said: "We're going to run the guns... and before the guns are destroyed they will be run for ballistics to see if they've been used in any other crimes."
Stephens said the department is running the serial numbers of all of the guns accepted during the event and owners of any stolen guns will be notified.
http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2012/08/gun_advocates_offer_to_outbid.html
The police program paid gun owners between $25 and $100 for their guns.
"These guys out here are willing to double and triple that," said Rick Ector, 44, a Detroit gun rights activist who helped plan the protest.
The offers fell upon mostly deaf ears, as few crossed the street to inquire about the premium buyback offers the activists were making.
The reason, several of them theorized, was the police response to their efforts.
Between the activists and residents awaiting to sell their unwanted guns, stood a row of five police in the center of the street.
"The police are obviously putting a wall, a barricade, between us and the people who are in line," Ector said. "It's a form of intimidation."
Ector and others said gun buyback events unfairly "demonize" guns.
how does some gun lover poaching a gun from the cops and selling it with no BG check get anything off the street?
i honestly have no idea why one would do that, it sounds immoral and greedy to me.
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