Here I Go Again
Baltimore is running a gun buyback program:
Nine hours later, the police had spent $45,050 to buy 427 guns, many which are the types used in violent acts throughout Baltimore, police said.
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[Deputy Police Commissioner Marcus] Brown said the weapons purchased yesterday included a Mac-10 assault rifle, an Uzi and a semi-automatic Ruger handgun.
A Mac-10 assault rifle, eh? I thought the MAC-10 was a machine pistol chambered in a handgun cartridge like 9mm or .45ACP. But then, it’s a scary black gun, so that makes it an assault weapon, which is the same as an assault rifle, right? QED.
I know I’m starting to sound like a broken record. I know I probably haven’t written an original thought on this blog in maybe forever. I can’t help it; it just boggles my mind.
I’m probably driving away SayUncle’s audience in droves. Or if not in droves, then in AMC Gremlin Sport Utility Vehicles.
“Those are the weapons of choice on the streets of Baltimore,” Brown said. “We feel we’ve taken some of them off.”
I wonder if they’ve got Christopher Walken dancing around the police headquarters.
June 3rd, 2005 at 8:02 am
That’s only $100 a gun. I wonder if I’d be allowed to start my own gun buyback program.
June 3rd, 2005 at 8:23 am
I thought federal officials said that .25 caliber Raven handguns were the weapon of choice with criminals.
In which case, $100 is overpaying.
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:12 am
Ravenwood,
Yeah, I didn’t post the part that lists the prices:
So there you go folks. Add a few evil features to your rifle and you can quadruple its value!
June 3rd, 2005 at 9:16 am
Walken dancing around… arrr arrr.
June 3rd, 2005 at 10:14 am
man… that hurts. I don’t know what the law is over the river, but in VA, if Fairfax or Falls Church (both quite anti-gun) ever tried a gun buy back, I’d be setting up shop right near by. And perfectly legal, too. (Private party transactions… no FFL needed) Don’t quote me on that; I am not a lawyer.
June 3rd, 2005 at 2:08 pm
$100 per handgun? Shit, I’ve got two S&W knockoff that I’d turn in in a heartbeat for that kinda scratch.
Heck, my 98% condition Taurus .44 Special only got me an offer of $75 from one gun shop, and $125 from another…
June 4th, 2005 at 12:47 pm
Read what they didn’t say: they got 3 good weapons, and so presumably they paid decent prices for 424 cheap or trashed out weapons – which are truly the kind of weapon most used by criminals. Trouble is, it’s likely that many of them were sold to the cops at a profit, even if they weren’t stolen in the first place.