…and damaged cognitive ability: “A recent gun buyback event in Oregon, aimed at curbing the number of weapons on the street, turned into a planned profit making opportunity for a group of firearms enthusiasts.” Basically, the gun buyback people were offering too-high prices for some firearms, so certain gun enthusiasts simply sold them clapped-out pieces of junk for a profit. The buyback also offered to trade ‘high capacity magazines’ for $25 gift cards for a store that happens to sell ‘high capacity magazines’… for $8. Yes, that worked out pretty much as you’d expect, too: they ran out of gift cards. It’s a shame I don’t live in Oregon; there was clearly money in that.
But the best part? At least one person said Hey, wait, I know precisely where people who want to sell firearms are going to gather – and so he waited outside in order to make a better cash offer for the firearms that were worth more than the buyback value. How did it go?
“I picked up five weapons including a Model 11 Remington SemiAuto 12-gauge from 1926, a Mossberg bolt-action 20-gauge from 1947-1950… AND a pre-1900, 12-gauge breech action with Damascus barrel……AND……. a couple of 22 pistols,” wrote the member.
Because this is America, that’s why. And it shouldn’t surprise anybody that the system was so easily gamed, here. I think that sometimes we forget that we largely don’t trust governmental competence for a reason.
Via PJ Tatler.
The poor little gun control advocates. Still clinging to their belief that making things illegal will make it vanish with the desperate strength of a frightened child holding onto their blanket.
*face palm*
Of course you will get firearms; and of course you will get someone without a felony record selling to the police the firearms that everyone with a felony has sold to that one clean guy and his friends. If there is a market then there will be brokers.
Economics – how is that spelt?
These events have been failing in exactly the same ways, for years.
Yet they never learn.
There’s a metaphor here. I can feel it.