"A monthlong gun buyback program aimed at getting firearms off the street netted 75 guns as of Friday. Tuesday is the last day that residents can turn in guns...The gun buyback program, titled ‘Surrender Your Weapons and Live,’ was supported by community groups who blanketed neighborhoods with flyers...Guns were turned in at the police station and residents were given a $50 voucher."
"’It's an opportunity to make sure we don't just get the guns out of the house,’ [Brett] Wells said. ‘But it provides opportunities for family strengthening. Really it has been a collaborative effort.’"
No doubt. Sounds like there are quite a few collaborators.
"The total grant for the project was $65,000 from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. Wells said the grant has room to buy about 75 more firearms."
Wait a minute. 150 guns at $50 a pop (sorry) is only $7,500. You're telling me it cost $57,500 to administer this evil farce? And the damn lapdog Times Herald doesn't even raise this point, but instead presents the program as "beating estimates"?
"We would have been satisfied if we'd gotten 30 or 40 (guns)," Wells discloses.
Well no, duh. Keep it down to 75 guns and that's another $3,750 they won't have to shell out.
Our tax dollars at work.
This gives me a great idea. "The Greater Phoenix Gun Buyback" sponsered by... hmmmm.. need a good name here... The Greater Phoenix 2A Foundation. Nobody will understand what the 2A stands for. Just have to find a good location. Maybe we could hoodwink Sheriff Joe into letting us use a location station. Man, just $50 per gun?? Might come up with some decent pieces. And pawn the junk. :))
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