Gun Control & RKBA
Related: About this forumConfiscated guns to be sold by police
A Georgia law that took effect last month requires all law enforcement agencies to sell most of the guns they confiscate to licensed dealers if they can't return them to the lawful owners.
Gwinnett County's Police Department recently sold 62 guns for more than $10,000 and that money goes to the state.
http://www.walb.com/story/19276721/confiscated-gubs-to-be-sold-by-police
Recycling is a progressive value.
Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)And right there in the pile was an M-1 Thompson. I'm sure it was the semi-auto version but boy did I want to grab it out. I've always wanted the gun Vic Morrow carried in Combat. You can buy the semi-auto's for around a $1,000. And if it was a real WWII era gun it would have been worth $10,000 and probably more all by itself.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)hack89
(39,171 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)A pattern of gun abuse -- including number, types, etc., of guns coveted -- should be part of background checks. Mental and maturity tests should also be required.
hack89
(39,171 posts)there are 6 guns in my house - four of them evil "assault weapons". My entire family shoots.
Would I pass your background check?
ileus
(15,396 posts)not a poly in your pants...
All those poly guns are turning on your baser instincts.
holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)... how many guns constitutes gun abuse? I only ask because I fear I may be at risk.
Reasonable_Argument
(881 posts)I have have a feeling your critera for those tests would be something along the lines of this," Do you agree with me? No? Then you can't own a gun". Just out of curiosity Hoyt, do you have any experience with firearms?
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)and can apparently disassemble and assemble a 1911 underwater. He is also quite proficient at defending himself with a can of beans.
HALO141
(911 posts)by armed citizens. If one is used to just taking what one wants from others, just as the proverbial candy from a baby, I can imagine it's quite a shock to have to try to find a real job.
I'm having trouble finding the value in stripping and reassembling a wet 1911. (shrug)
rl6214
(8,142 posts)into the bushes.
HALO141
(911 posts)Actually... No it doesn't. Imma havta see that one for myself.
HALO141
(911 posts)I'd be very impressed if he could disassemble and reassemble that can of beans underwater.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)No one needs a high capacity bean can
HALO141
(911 posts)I mean... Ya just never know.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)HALO141
(911 posts)the number of beans or is it the capacity of the bean feeding device?
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)If you're not willing to admit that some bean control, like limits on high capacity death spewing bean cans is desirable then there's no point in continuing this discussion
HALO141
(911 posts)LOOK, SQUIRREL!
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)HALO141
(911 posts)From my cold, dead hands!
The holocaust
Reloading at home
A can of dingo beans ate my baby!
Evil assault beans!!!
Death merchant!
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)Well-played, all.
Trunk Monkey
(950 posts)Reasonable_Argument
(881 posts)Then his positions on people carrying weapons for protection makes much more sense.
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Missycim
(950 posts)I wonder what he robbed?
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)Given his propensity for bragging about unbelievable feats, I suspect that the actual victim was his own piggy-bank.
Missycim
(950 posts)lied then why does anyone trust a word that comes out of his mouth?
but if he is telling the truth he shouldn't be allowed to walk free in the world and also too pass judgetment on others who own guns lawfully. Well that's my 2 cents worth
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)I don't think anybody believes him about anything, but his claims are so fantasic that he invites being the butt of jokes. Look at the bean humor a few posts above this one.
That comes from Hoyt one of Hoyt's claims. There was a guy that went nuts in a grocery store and began stabbing people. A guy with a concealed carry license pulled his gun and held the knife guy until police arrived. Hoyt claimed that the gun was not needed, that if force was needed he would have thrown a can of beans at the guy with the knife. So now we rag on Hoyt about his concealed can of beans.
Missycim
(950 posts)If by his words he was a robber did he use cans of beans to stick people up with?
GreenStormCloud
(12,072 posts)That could be assault with a weapon of mass destruction.
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)"Hello America. As a violent criminal I just want you to know your gun obsession offends me. I don't support the right to carry weapons as it puts people like me at risk. Won't you please think of the armed robbers America and do the right thing? Disarm yourselves now, or people like me might end up out of work . . . "
rDigital
(2,239 posts)There are over 85,000,000+ gun owners in the US: you're mentioning 4 outliers and repeatedly hoping someone will buy what you are selling. You've been debunked. It wasn't hard.
Anecdotal Evidence
This is fallacious generalizing on the basis of a some story that provides an inadequate sample. If you discount evidence arrived at by systematic search or by testing in favor of a few firsthand stories, then your reasoning contains the fallacy of overemphasizing anecdotal evidence.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/fallacy/#AnecdotalEvidence
DWC
(911 posts)4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)Since by recycling the state is getting the money. But if they destroyed the guns manufacturers would have to produce more weapons to sell and thus increase their profits.
Travis_0004
(5,417 posts)I can imagine this has to hurt gun manufactures profits. I think an 80's smith and wesson revolver is better than anything made today. The only way I'm buying a brand new revolver from them is when the 80's made ones are no longer available.
You're ridiculous.
Every used gun sold by the police to a private individual is one NEW gun that's not sold by a gun manufacturer. This is denying profits to gun makers!
4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)this actually takes money away from hated-gun producers.
But he still opposed it because "gu gu GUNS!"
Oops!
krispos42
(49,445 posts)The price prohibition decreased. Conflict: higher prices for new guns, BUT gun makers profit; or, lower prices for used guns, BUT more people can buy them (or can buy 2 instead of 1).
that many counties are cash strapped, this is a good way to raise money for Police officers and firefighters etc.
Why do you hate American Hoyt?
Since when did supporting the second amendment make you right wing? I know plenty of liberals that support gun rights.
Kennah
(14,304 posts)You'll be gone soon, so let me try to slip this in fast.
The RW aren't going to save gun rights because the RW is crumbling. Pro-gun liberals and progressives, of which I am one, are the only thing that will save the 2A.
TTFN
ileus
(15,396 posts)holdencaufield
(2,927 posts)petronius
(26,603 posts)owner first. Silly to just destroy useable property if there's a way to bring some money into the state budget instead...