San Mateo County buy-back nets 680 weapons
David R. Baker
Published 3:51 pm, Sunday, January 27, 2013
(01-27) 15:50 PST San Mateo --
A gun buy-back event in San Mateo County on Saturday brought in 680 weapons and handed out $63,500, according to the sheriff's department.
The latest in a string of buy-back events throughout the Bay Area collected 24 assault weapons, 285 hand guns and 371 long guns, said Det. Rebecca Rosenblatt. The event, held at the San Mateo County Event Center, offered up to $200 in cash for an assault weapon and up to $100 for a hand gun, shotgun or rifle.
"Every weapon turned in is one less life that might be lost or damaged by a firearm, whether accidentally or intentionally," said Rep. Jackie Speier (D-San Mateo)[oh spare me Jackie and save the histrionic behaviour for your husband] , who sponsored the buy-back program along with San Mateo County Supervisor Adrienne Tissier and Sheriff Greg Munks.
In 1978, Speier was shot five times while investigating the Peoples Temple colony in Jonestown, Guyana. She has consistently favored tighter gun control laws.
These people are incredibly stupid. The prices offered are abot 25% of what a gun shop would offer (Assuming good condition, cosmetics, funtionabilty, etc).
Thes gub'mint buy backs are nothing more than knee jerk feelgoodism.
/rant
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
They ain't never gonna pry my pistols from my hands until I'm cold & dead - and probably not even then.
My fire irons aren't fer sale and anybody who thinks they's gonna get um is lookin fer trouble.
Besides, $200.00 ain't even close to equivicatin' the value of my freedom and 2nd amendment right evaluation.
Anyway, I spent a lot of time at the parkin' lot of the county center buyin' a lot of them firearms before they made it into the repossession situation.
I now possess more firearms than anybody around and am feared by many.
Less than $100 per gun average. I have pellet guns that sell for more than that used. Other than law abiding citizens getting less than going value for their guns, these buy backs do next to zero getting the guns out of the hands of those that are most likely to commit crimes with them.
If there's one around here, my uncle plans to turn in his old Marlin rifle. It sold new (in the early 1970's) for less than $25, and it has a cracked stock & a bad barrel. (He paid $10 for it a while back because he wanted the stock to replace the cracked one on HIS Marlin.) The only reason he still has it is because he hasn't yet bothered to strip it down & take the metal parts to the scrapyard.
, who sponsored the buy-back program along with San Mateo County Supervisor Adrienne Tissier and Sheriff Greg Munks.
