Everyone Loves Bronx Cash4Guns Program

Boys and their toys: Reverends and police commissioner check out the spoils from last year's buyback

According to everyone involved, yesterday’s gun buyback in the Bronx was a marvelous success! Four churches collected 1,216 firearms in a limited-time, no-questions-asked cahs4guns event. “In the fight against gun violence, everything helps, and I am proud that we were able to take so many guns out of circulation,” said Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. in a statement. Gun relinqhishers can use the money to feed their families and pay their mortgages—or just blow it all on drugs and knives.

Each gun was redeemable for a $200 prepaid bank card. There was no limit on how many guns could be handed over, this year even BB guns were allowed (sorry scammers, they yield a smaller payback than real guns). There was however a $600 cap on payment for the second annual Bronx gun buyback; last year about 1000 guns were collected. "Though Bronxites can celebrate that the overall crime rate in our borough is down from last year, there are still too many shootings in our borough" said Diaz.

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By Sabrina Jaszi in News on January 24, 2010 2:57 PM

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potsmoker

http://gunowners.org/op0030.htm

NannyState

They can have my machine guns...when they pry them out my cold, dead bikini girls' hands.

potsmoker

its a well known upstate gun dealer bailout, they drive down with strawmen by the busload, say $50 and lunch in nyc. dealer gets $600 for 3 unsellable useless nd worthless guns, the srawman gets $50 cash and lunch.

get real, this isnt bronx residents turnning in guns, its scam artists from out of town making a profit on worthless cheapo guns, and the mayor touts it as a PR publicity bonanza without revealing the REAL details.

grandpas old .22 in the closet is better for home protection, if you have one keep it in case 911 doesnt come fast enough before your rapist kills you.

TKaisen

Citation needed.

potsmoker

http://forum.pafoa.org/news-123/84582-gun-buy-back-compton-california-scam.html

potsmoker

This "Post" article says: "Studies show that [surprise!] lawbreakers rarely surrender their weapons to buyback programs and that many people who do sell their guns have other firearms at home, or soon buy new ones."

The Post quotes Garen Wintemute, director of the anti-self defense Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis, as saying, in part, about "buy-backs": "The guns that are removed from the community do not resemble the guns used in crimes in that community. There has never been any effect on crime results seen." (Emphasis mine.) Still, the President's administration has set aside $15 million to be thrown down the "buy-back" rat hole.

When we called the DC Police Department and asked spokesman Joe Gentile if he knew of any evidence that "buy-backs" actually reduced crime, and we questioned the wisdom of this program, these were, obviously, not his favorite questions.