Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 990210" data-attributes="member: 12952">Finally, a feel-good story out of moonbattery-addled <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13484760-418/group-turns-tables-on-chicago-gun-turn-in-uses-money-for-gun-camp.html" target="_blank">Chicago</a>. Recently the city collected 5,500 guns during a buyback program, handing out $100 MasterCard gift cards for every gun ($10 for BB guns and replicas)…Todd Vandermyde, the NRA’s chief lobbyist in Illinois, … said he was told one suburban gun dealer imported junk rifles for less than $50 each and received $100 gift cards for each of them.&nbsp;Con “artists” have turned in <a href="http://moonbattery.com/?p=12864" target="_blank">homemade zip guns</a> to get the taxpayer cash.Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group. …“This was rusty, non-firing junk that we turned in,” Boch said. “We are&nbsp; redirecting funds from people who would work against the private&nbsp; ownership of firearms to help introduce the next generation to shooting&nbsp; safely and responsibly.”<a href="http://moonbattery.com/" target="_blank">Moonbattery</a>Boch said he doesn’t think the crooks who have pushed the&nbsp; number of Chicago’s homicides to 38 percent over last year’s total are&nbsp; the ones handing over their weapons.

 “If you were a criminal, you would be a fool to go there with the&nbsp; police presence,” he said. “What criminal would turn in the tool he uses&nbsp; to do his trade for a $100 card?”
As for the possibility of the program accomplishing anything other than to waste taxpayer money.


</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 990210, member: 12952"] Finally, a feel-good story out of moonbattery-addled [URL="http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13484760-418/group-turns-tables-on-chicago-gun-turn-in-uses-money-for-gun-camp.html"]Chicago[/URL]. Recently the city collected 5,500 guns during a buyback program, handing out $100 MasterCard gift cards for every gun ($10 for BB guns and replicas)… Todd Vandermyde, the NRA’s chief lobbyist in Illinois, … said he was told one suburban gun dealer imported junk rifles for less than $50 each and received $100 gift cards for each of them. Con “artists” have turned in [URL="http://moonbattery.com/?p=12864"]homemade zip guns[/URL] to get the taxpayer cash. Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life. In return, the group received $6,240 in gift cards, said John Boch, president of the group. … “This was rusty, non-firing junk that we turned in,” Boch said. “We are redirecting funds from people who would work against the private ownership of firearms to help introduce the next generation to shooting safely and responsibly.” [url=http://moonbattery.com/]Moonbattery[/url] [INDENT]Boch said he doesn’t think the crooks who have pushed the number of Chicago’s homicides to 38 percent over last year’s total are the ones handing over their weapons. “If you were a criminal, you would be a fool to go there with the police presence,” he said. “What criminal would turn in the tool he uses to do his trade for a $100 card?” As for the possibility of the program accomplishing anything other than to waste taxpayer money. [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]

Verification