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Title: Popular “Guns 4 Groceries” returns Saturday
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Austin Statesman
URL Source: http://www.statesman.com/blogs/cont ... ar_guns_4_groceries_retur.html
Published: Feb 21, 2011
Author: Claudia Grisales
Post Date: 2011-02-21 22:00:50 by CadetD
Keywords: gun, grab
Views: 185
Comments: 9
The popular “Guns 4 Groceries” program that debuted in Central Texas last year to overwhelming interest will return Saturday, officials announced today. Austin police will be on hand to collect the weapons from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the Oak Meadow Baptist Church, 6905 South Interstate 35 near William Cannon Drive in South Austin. A key draw: it’s a “no questions asked” program. “The response was overwhelming last time. We had to shut down after a few hours,”said Cary Roberts, executive director for the Greater Austin Crime Commission, an Austin nonprofit that is co-sponsoring the event. “We anticipate the same interest this time.” Participants can collect $200 for each assault rifle, $100 each for handguns and rifles and $10 apiece for air guns, BB guns or replicas, sponsors said. There is a two gun limit per participant. Last June, dozens of participants stood in line for as many as four hours to turn in unwanted weapons, Roberts said. It collected nearly 350 weapons and doled out $30,000 in gift cards to participants, he said. Initially, the commission planned to pay out $8,000 to $10,000 to participants. “We had no idea what response we would get,” Roberts said. “We had planned for 100 weapons and $10,000 (in gift cards). But we ended up at $30,000. We are a little more prepared this time.” This year, the program is allotting $25,000 to $30,000, shorter hours and plans for multiple lines rather than just one, Robert said. “It is a little more streamlined,” Roberts said. “We should be able to process people faster." Donations have been underwritten by the Jastrow Family Foundation, Roberts said. Former Temple-Inland Inc. Chairman and CEO Kenneth M. Jastrow II is a board member for the commission. The move of the program from a Central Austin location South Austin hopefully should mean that more residents in that part of town can participate, Roberts said. “We moved down south to hopefully make it easier for people in that part of the community to participate,” he said. Gun buyback programs have been successful in removing thousands of guns in Chicago, Los Angeles, Oakland, Philadelphia and Washington, Roberts said. And the group hopes to make “Guns 4 Groceries” a bi-annual event, he said. “The Crime Commission got really involved in developing this program to raise public awareness about gun safety and reduce gun violence,” he said. Many of the participants last year had weapons they had inherited and no longer wanted, or were living with children and no longer wanted weapons in the home, Roberts said. Although it’s a “no questions asked” program, weapons are still checked to see if they have been used to commit a documented crime, Roberts said. Last year, none of the weapons turned in were connected to any crimes, he said. The weapons are then destroyed, he said. At least two assault rifles were collected last year, Roberts said. “It’s a good way for people who want to get rid of firearms to do so and know they are going to be destroyed,” he said. When turning in a weapon, police ask participants to follow these rules: — Unload the gun and put the gun and ammunition in separate paper bags. — Upon arrival, tell an officer that you are there to turn in a gun. — Do not remove the gun from the bag unless asked to do so. Poster Comment: Donations have been underwritten by the Jastrow Family Foundation....sounds like a good jewish name.
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#1. To: CadetD (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Watch this video from this thread.
Collectors and gunshop owners should stand out front and screen the incoming crowd for valuable/collectible pieces, with the added perk of pissing off the local constabulary.
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one. "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." - Ben Franklin
Sounds like a great way to get rid of unserviceable junk guns. Otherwise tell them to kiss your little red apple.
Offer 150 cash for nice pieces that can be turned around, cleaned up, and resold for a big fat profit. I think that is a wonderful idea. (I betcha the cops go through them to "swap" out any real choice pieces.)
You know they do, they're not about to let a rare 1911 or old Browning shotgun go to the smelter.
__________________________________________________________ Starve everyone out then get them to trade their guns for sustenance. Bingo.
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Update: Texans for Accountable Government Counters APD's "Guns for Groceries" Program
------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
#2. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
Starve everyone out then get them to trade their guns for sustenance.
#3. To: CadetD, Lod, *Shooters* (#0)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#4. To: purplerose (#2)
#5. To: CadetD (#0)
#6. To: X-15 (#3)
#7. To: Original_Intent (#6)
(I betcha the cops go through them to "swap" out any real choice pieces.)
"This man is Jesus,” shouted one man, spilling his Guinness as Barack Obama began his inaugural address. “When will he come to Kenya to save us?"
-Schweizerische Schuetzenzeitung (Swiss Shooting Federation) April, 1941
#8. To: Eric Stratton (#1)
Maybe that's the way that the NWO's going to do it.
#9. To: CadetD (#0)
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