Group to send kids to gun camp with profits from junk dumped at Chicago gun surrender

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Oh the humanity.
Gun Group Dumps Broken Guns At Police Buyback Event, Uses Cash For NRA Camp For Kids
GRAND CROSSING — A gun rights group plans to use its profits from a Chicago Police “gun buyback” event to send children aged 10 to 16 to a shooting camp hosted by the National Rifle Association.
The guns Boch turns in at the events are “mostly scrap,” he said: They’re usually old and unusable, but even the newer ones that the Guns Save Life members turned in were all “broken down, all non-firing, missing parts and pieces.” Some appeared to have been through fires or rusted beyond use, he said.

“They had no effective value in the grand scheme of things,” Boch said. “We went up there to trade our unwanted firearms for perfectly good cash to send young people to a National Rifle Association summer gun camp to teach them about the safe and effective use of firearms.”

Re: Group to send kids to gun camp with profits from junk dumped at Chicago gun surrender

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YankeeTarheel wrote: Mon Jun 25, 2018 8:05 am I dunno. Selling non-working and non-salvageable junk guns to the government sounds like it definitely violates the spirit, if not the letter of the law.
The officers at the 'buy' table didn't write the law - they're simply tasked with upholding it. They were in a position to refuse the BB guns or rusted hulks and chose to accept them. Using the money to send kids to a shooting camp is a great use of the money! Giving the cops guns to evaluate and accept or deny isn't part of the protest, though - that's simply following the rules of the event.

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One way to keep kids safe with guns is to teach them safe handling. If its not expressly labeled illegal, it is legal.

If I use $50 from a gun return to buy groceries, it frees up $50 from the grocery budget to spend on ammo.
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