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Thundar wrote:
This is the time of year when the antis offer to trade gift cards for firearms.Buybacks are a great opportunity to improve one's gun collection. Trouble is that there are no buybacks being advertised this holiday season. Anybody know of a buyback in Virginia this holiday season or later?
How is it that you improve your gun collection through buyback programs, Thundar?
The buyback concept is a good one for the antis. It's a good media story and photo op. Keeps 'em busy. And they don't really hurt my 2A rights. So, I'm uncritical of the basic buyback concept.
I just wish I could buy (legally), before the cops get 'em, some of those old Smiths that a few people bring in...
Buybacks are all over the place. They haven't died. Here's one:
Essex gun buyback program brings in more than 400 guns at Newark churches
By Alexi Friedman/The Star-Ledger
December 17, 2009, 4:25PM
NEWARK -- The two pocket-sized handguns that Al Ponder kept wrapped in plastic and stuffed in his green shopping bag had belonged to his mother, and were decades old.
Ponder always wanted to get rid of them, so when he heard about the latest gun amnesty buyback program, he saw his chance.
Matt Rainey/The Star-LedgerEssex County Prosecutor Paula Dow speaks with Irvington Police Director Joseph Santiago as she makes appearances at four locations for the gun amnesty buyback program this morning.
Guns in bag and bag in hand, the 67-year-old Newark resident waited in the cold this morning outside Christian Love Baptist Church in Irvington, to turn the guns in and collect up to $200 per weapon.
"I’ve never shot a gun," said Ponder, who had tucked the .38-caliber with pearl handle and .22-caliber weapons in a closet at home.
The gun buyback program takes place in Irvington, Newark and East Orange, and is intended to prevent and reduce violent crime in those communities, said Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow, whose office paid for the two-day initiative through forfeiture funds.
By midday, more than 400 firearms had been collected at the locations, the prosecutor’s office said, surpassing the two-day total at the Newark buyback program last month.
The initiative continues today, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., in Newark at Paradise Baptist Church, 348 15th Ave.; and Willing Heart Community Care Center, 555 Martin Luther King Blvd.; in East Orange at Saint Paul AME Church, 15 Sanford St.; and in Irvington at Christian Love Baptist Church, 830 Lyons Ave.
The timing of the buyback program was also intended to spread some holiday cheer, said Dow, who toured the locations yesterday.
Al Ponder said he got that message. "It’s good to have something a little extra in the wallet, so close to Christmas," he said.
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/essex_gun_buyback_program_brin.html
