Long lines at NC gun buy back

[AndyS]

They had to be functioning to collect $100 or $200 gif cards. More important than the actual number of kind of guns that were collected was the statement that people are just sick and tired of guns and violence. There is also the connection that the anti gun violence movement has made to the community and the new people who are willing to do something positive.

[SheltieLover]

1. Excellent! 👏👏👏👏

[getagrip_already]

2. Will the guns be destroyed?

I remember wingers suing states that ran them to force them to sell them to the highest bidder just like other surplus property states dispose of.

[AndyS]

3. The article did not say but given the orgs involved I suspect they will.

As the NAACP director said the whole point was to get guns off the street, to reduce the shear number of guns in circulation. Guns that may be stolen or sold into the black market and enter the crime stream.

[mopinko]

4. they could sell them for scrap.

disable them so they're only good for scrap. high quality metal. will being in some cash.

[sl8]

5. "Stored or sold on the open market"

"The guns will be stored or sold on the open market, under a 2015 state law, and the proceeds given to local schools."

Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article264740329.html

[Traildogbob]

6. Give em to Ukraine

[soldierant]

13. Now there's an idea.

[OMGWTF]

7. That's not getting them off the streets.

[Locrian]

8. exactly - wtf is the point?

Except to move the problem somewhere else?

[Warpy]

10. Actually, it is

If you have acquaintances in low places you know they don't go to gun stores, they buy stolen guns off the street, guns that can't be traced back to anyone but their original owner.

Guns are big thief magnets in this town.

[IronLionZion]

9. How are they making proceeds?

if they're giving $100 to $200 gift cards, then selling the guns for probably less.

It would be unfortunate if some of those guns end up in local schools.

[SergeStorms]

11. Hopefully they don't take the money....

and invest it in more modern, more lethal weapons. I guess there's no controlling where they spend the money though.

[iluvtennis]

12. Nice!! n/t