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Gun buyback program big success in nation's capital
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jean-Francois Avon)
Wed Aug 25 19:01:02 1999
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[note: we should ask our Aussie friends for their experience
on the topic. It comes to mind that kids will find any kind
of crappy old rusted gun, saw-off the barrel, and make a
quick 100 bucks, then use this money to buy some brand new
stuff.]
[note 2: those of you in the cryptography and privacy tool
community should take note: one day, they'll try to do the
same with your privacy software]
http://cnn.com/US/9908/24/guns.for.cash.ap/
Gun buyback program big success in nation's capital
August 24, 1999
Web posted at: 7:39 AM EDT (1139 GMT)
WASHINGTON (AP) -- So successful was a District of Columbia
program to buy guns from citizens for $100 each that city
officials have added $100,000 to use for the purchases.
By day's end Monday, 1,164 guns were turned in for payment,
police said.
In just the first half-hour, people handed over around 400
guns at the seven police district offices, said assistant
chief Terry Gainer. That's half as many firearms as normally
are confiscated in the district in a year, he said.
Shortly after the program began, Gainer said, police decided
to spend an extra $25,000 for what was to have been a
$100,000 program. By Monday night, they had decided to add
another $100,000 to the program.
People who turned in guns did not have to give police their
names and were granted amnesty from the city's law barring
people from owning handguns or other illegal firearms,
police spokesman Sgt. Joe Gentile said.
But he said guns would be tested to see if they could be
traced to crimes in the district.
Funds to pay for the program are coming from money and
assets confiscated from drug dealers.
Copyright 1999 The Associated Press.
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[this is a message sent by our Aussie friends from the SSAA]
Note the testing of those guns surrendered...almost like
Australian Federal Police and Army Intelligence knocking on
the doors of those Australians who surrendered semi auto and
full auto firearms under the "amnesty". No questions would
be asked... they said. Any further "amnesty" would be
treated with scorn by those who once trusted.
CNN
Washington gun buying program draws big response
Washington, D.C., is among other cities taking already steps
to control gun violence with gun buyback programs.
Assistant Chief Terry Gainer said Washington inaugurated the
$100,000 buyback program this week, paying $100 for each gun
turned over to police. In the first half-hour on Monday, 400
guns were turned in to seven police district offices. By
late Monday, 1,164 guns had been exchanged for payment. The
program accepts any handgun that wasn't registered prior to
1976, any long gun that hasn't been registered, or any
sawed-off weapon "And you do see a lot of sawed off shotguns
and rifles here," Gainer said.
"Now what we're going to do with each one of these weapons,
is we will do ballistic firing of them and take the results
of that test and run it against our own evidence as well as
that gathered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
"If any of those guns come up 'hot', that is, they were used
in a homicide or shooting, we will then assign our agents or
Federal Agents to complete that investigation and whatever
results from that, we'll present to the U.S. Attorney for
prosection," Gainer said.
"This is not business as usual. I think we're all a bit
surprised at the volume of guns and the range of
destructiveness," represented, Gainer
said.
