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New York City program to pay $100 cash for guns
Josey1
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New York City starts program to pay $100 cash for guns turned in to police
The Associated Press
5/8/02 7:37 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- In the latest effort to get guns off the streets, city officials announced a "cash for guns" program that will pay people $100, no questions asked, if they turn in an operable firearm to police.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that although major crime is down more than 7 percent over the past year, shootings have increased.
As of Sunday, there have been 498 shooting incidents citywide this year, compared with 407 in the same period last year, an increase of 22.3 percent.
The "cash for guns" program will run for 30 days but could be extended. People who turn in guns to police will remain anonymous and won't be questioned.
The guns will be exchanged for vouchers that can be redeemed for $100. The reward money is being funded by assets from state forfeitures.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0537_BC_BRF--CashforGuns&&news&newsflash-national
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
The Associated Press
5/8/02 7:37 AM
NEW YORK (AP) -- In the latest effort to get guns off the streets, city officials announced a "cash for guns" program that will pay people $100, no questions asked, if they turn in an operable firearm to police.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that although major crime is down more than 7 percent over the past year, shootings have increased.
As of Sunday, there have been 498 shooting incidents citywide this year, compared with 407 in the same period last year, an increase of 22.3 percent.
The "cash for guns" program will run for 30 days but could be extended. People who turn in guns to police will remain anonymous and won't be questioned.
The guns will be exchanged for vouchers that can be redeemed for $100. The reward money is being funded by assets from state forfeitures.
http://www.nj.com/newsflash/national/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?a0537_BC_BRF--CashforGuns&&news&newsflash-national
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Comments
And we all know that the drug dealers and gang bangers will turn in their guns.
PC=BS
What the hell are they thinking when they walk up and turn their guns in...IMO they don't deserve to have them in the first place. If they can't think for themselves, they shouldn't be trusted to have them.
- Life NRA Member
If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
"Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday that although major crime is down more than 7 percent over the past year, shootings have increased."
You think maybe one is a direct result of the other?!?!
I'm not afraid of the dark...the dark is afraid of me!
I know where I can get quite a few crappy Jennings for $20-25......
Seriously though.....I should buy up a few hundred, and drive up there......
lessee.............lets say I took 500 guns.
At $75 profit each, that would be $37,500!!!!! Woooooooooooo......
Wow.....I should do this. :P
Merc (who wonders what laws there are against taking 500 guns to NYC!!!!!)
NO! You may not have my guns! Now go crawl back into your hole!
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