Grassroots
The anti-gunners don’t have it:
An effort to crowd-fund a gun buyback for San Jose is less than halfway toward its goal with three days left to go.
The San Jose Gun Buy Back has drawn 36 backers donating a total of $4,369 toward a planned Dec. 14 gun buyback, according to gunbygun.org, the site hosting the crowd-funding effort.
Organizers are hoping to raise $10,000 through the effort, and say that every $100 will take one gun off the street.
The crowd-funding effort is scheduled to end on Dec. 10.
So, they can’t raise $10k? But 90% . . .
December 14th, 2013 at 5:25 pm
Wheres Bloomie when you need him? LOL!
December 14th, 2013 at 5:35 pm
Gun buy back?
So each and every one of the donors has gone through
mental health, felony, arrest, provided their names, addresses, and contact information, and has been electronically “cleared” by BATFE, RIGHT?
Transfer of firearms, and all that, don’t cha’ know.
I wonder what the tax on resale of firearms is in
San Jose?
December 14th, 2013 at 5:53 pm
This gives me an idea…
December 14th, 2013 at 6:29 pm
They will do what people in kalifornistan usually do: give out IOU’s when they run out of money.
And yet most of the guns are going to be old, non-functional guns brought in by widows.
December 15th, 2013 at 3:17 am
I suspect people could make cheap zip guns (i.e. a steel pipe that fits inside another with an end cap and nail) to sell them for $100 each at this “buy back” with the proceeds to buy a nice firearm. Difficult to argue that this is not a firearm when they have been used before as a primitive, but effective weapon.
December 15th, 2013 at 4:39 am
They should have held a gun raffle, those things can pull in $10k easy!
December 15th, 2013 at 4:52 am
They’ve managed to fund it now apparently, having collected $18,699. Of course, there were only 72 donors with the first 36 backers averaging about $121 each and the final 36 backers averaging $398 each. So it looks pretty likely that one or two people stepped in and dropped LARGE donations. It wouldn’t surprise me if the $8,699 was more or less raised and they were given $10,000 from one of the usual suspects.
https://www.gunbygun.org/san-jose-gun-buyback
December 15th, 2013 at 10:37 am
Seriously, why can’t I start a Kickstarter effort to “get guns off the streets?” Use appropriate hippy phrasing to bring in the cash. Then, set up table in upper income area that is plagued with liberal white guilt and buy guns? For me.
Legal or not?
December 15th, 2013 at 11:32 am
Hard to raise money for stupid.
December 15th, 2013 at 11:50 am
Well, they want guns off the streets, but only with ‘government money’, right?
December 15th, 2013 at 12:42 pm
The interesting thing about these gun buyback programs is that somehow the police appear to get an exemption from ATF on having to gather and retain a list of the names and addresses of the persons from whom they receive these firearms. Yes, the police can take in firearms completely anonymously, but FFLs must list names and addresses.
It almost seems as if anonymous buybacks would encourage criminals to steal guns in order to make a little cash from turning them in.
December 15th, 2013 at 3:06 pm
I don’t know about the restayaz, but I count myself damn lucky that Markle and McCrillis are on our side. Got my eye on you too there, Jim. Dangerous minds.
December 15th, 2013 at 6:27 pm
seem like someone with a makerbot could print out a few dozen and make a grand or so. I’m sure the PD will not care about the quality of the plastic. Sure you could make a zipgun in a garage, but this would be a lot less work if you already had the printer set up.
December 16th, 2013 at 12:04 am
At our local buyback, a few pro-2A FFLs brought in complete trash parts guns from their shops and cleared out most of the gift cards early. I think they made a donation to NRA.
December 16th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
MP McCrillis: People engaged in the business of dealing firearms have to record transactions in bound books.
Despite the “buyback”, since the guns are destroyed rather than resold, the PD is not “in the business of dealing firearms” and is not treated like a dealer.
Thus the 18 USC 922/3 record-keeping requirements for dealers do not apply.
(Just as if I buy a huge number of guns – but not for resale – I am a collector, not a dealer, and don’t have to keep any records.)