http://ktla.com/2012/12/28/l-a-s-gun-buyback-nets-2037-firearms/
It’s in the title, and there is a brief viewing on them on the video. I call absolute bullshit on this. I can only imagine that the outcry would be far higher if they where real. The mayor didn’t even mention it during his press conference, but they are being displayed at the table of all of the weapons turned in.
WTF?
They held up an AT-4 which was likely just the spent, inert tube without the projectile. Although harmless, it is still classified as a destructive device under CA law and a felony to possess.
Saw pics of it. At least one says “TRAINER”, so it’s likely a completely inert tube that was never live. At best, maybe it fires 9mm spotter rounds.
The break-open single shots on the table were more dangerous. Maybe even the blank firing starter pistols I saw in the footage if it’s purely a totally inert handling trainer.
I have no doubt our gov will start putting in some guns of their own into buy backs so they can have their proof dangerous full auto and other things are out there and they need to remove them
what they did with F&F is proof they will do whatever it takes to get their agenda through !
Don’t you know that if you keep saying sensible things, you will be told that your tin-foil is too tight and other 1st Amendment-friendly things?
bc
Sensible huh no quite and yes that comment does deserve the tin foil hat award. We have enough problems as gun owners we don’t need the fringe tin foil hat types making us all look like a bunch of idiots and nut jobs.
Pat
It was a trainer and it is not illegal to own an at4 tube
I would LOVE to have an AT4 subcaliber. That would make an awesome 3 gun prop.
Villaraigosa said the LAPD collected 901 handguns, 698 rifles and 363 shotguns. The weapons will be melted down and formed into the shape of a giant cocknballs.
The pink portion does not appear in the original article.
I dunno know Pat…doesn’t sound too fringe to me…for example, look at the guns photographed on the below link. I kinda doubt folks really turned these in for $50 to $100…these events are notoriously ineffective.
The Sheriff’s Office here recovered a British PIAT launcher during a dope warrant a year or so ago and made a big deal out of the fact they had seized an anti tank rocket launcher. Granted the guy who had it was a shitbag but it’s not illegal to own one. I can’t even find it classified as a firearm. It’s a big spring gun and it’s not like he had any PIAT ammunition to go with it. I found one for sale on for about $3500 not long after that from some on line distributor. Anything for a headline and dramatic impact. The truth really doesn’t matter. I would love to know where the guy got it from though. It probably got melted down which pisses me off with unique items like that.
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Um yeah okay cause we all know F&F was all tin foil and black helicopters . . .
I am not saying I support buy backs nor do I think they are effective. My point is it is tin foil hat thinking to believe the cops are putting guns on the table from the armory.
That was not a gun buy back now was it?
Pat
People and organizations do things a lot worse than that to justify their cause/position/job/etc.
Cops in LA do not have to justify their jobs as there is plenty of crime to go around. While gun buy backs don’t work those sponsoring them are generally well intentioned just ignorant.
Pat
It would be pretty funny to buy inert tubes wholesale (if legal) and exchange them at “gun buybacks” for a profit.
Why? You don’t think there are plenty of anti-gun cops in CA and this wouldn’t help with their own personal agendas?
That’s like saying it’d be a “tinfoil hat” conspiracy to believe cops in elite special operations units could break into people’s houses without warrants, steal hundreds of thousands of dollars AND put out a hit on another cop. That’s just impossible to believe.
Or how about cops going to prison for drug trafficking kilos of cocaine. That’d be really “tinfoil hat” type stuff too.
I only read those 2 today and that’s why I thought of them… Plenty of other examples of things cops would NEVER do happening all the time.
Here is a question for you all, every time a liberal city stages one of these "guns for basketball shoes, food stamps, cash, et al.” why are there always the usual rusted pawn shop fair in trash cans then a table of pristine Tec-9s, MAC-10s, Uzis and other “illegal assault pistols”. I’m a gun guy; I go to a lot of shows/shops and can’t say I’ve seen any of those “assault pistols” since the early 90’s in any quantity.
I smell propaganda bovine feces.
yeah sorry not a fringe tin foil hat wearing person !
I am a hard working business person that has pretty much worked for myself my whole life and done very well at it !
many think F&F was a plan to try to make us gun folks look bad
and either way the outcome is even more proof to not trust this administration !
I know in your eyes F&F is tin foil hat wearing territory and it was the bad business people and the cartels and nothing to do with the current administration after all the gov would never do anything like that !
same thing as Benghazi cover up
sure in your eyes the current admins explanation is OK with you !
even when Obama first became president he put that gun control and banning guns was on his priority list on the white house gov site
well seems it caused to much controversy so they quickly took it down then he goes out and says he is pro 2nd to try to cover things up
I never said cops had to justify anything and also never said it would be cops doing it ! I said our gov !
HUGE difference !
I know you think you are clever twisting words and stuff around but to me thats like watching my 4 year old thinking he is being clever
sorry to tell you but the gov does do things here and abroad and putting a few guns on the table is nothing to them