Nominee #1
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It usually takes a little time for the really good and the really gawdawful bills to surface. But now at the midway point, I think we have a nominee in the latter category.
It’s Del. Mark Cole’s HB 252
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Del. Cole has introduced legislation that says local police departments can’t set up gun buyback programs unless they SELL THE GUNS BACK.
So, we buy guns from people to get them off the streets. Then apparently because some Delegates can’t bear the thought of any gun actually being, say, melted down, we require the police department to sell the guns back to licensed dealers. From whence they end up back on the street.
I pretty much thought the purpose of gun buyback programs was, well, to buy guns and not to sell them. Current law, by the way, allows police departments to sell the guns if they wish.
Of course HB 2528 passed the House. But it limped out with 33 negative votes, a fairly high number of “no” votes from a group that generally believes that an armed society is a polite society.
We will await its fate in the Senate.
