Dallasites turn in 147 guns in exchange for grocery cards

[TexGun]

I apologize in advance for my misguided fellow Texans...   However, the Dallas city council is the 2nd biggest joke in town just slightly behind the Dallas school board. 

As you can see from the article, even though they try to spin it to be positive, the event was a miserable failure...147 guns in a city this size, and as is the norm, it looks like most folks were just cleaning house.  Stinkin' Gun Grabbers!

Dallasites turn in 147 guns in exchange for grocery cards
03:38 PM CST on Saturday, February 28, 2009
By MATTHEW HAAG / The Dallas Morning News
mhaag@dallasnews.com

The city of Dallas’ gun buyback program on Saturday morning yielded 147 guns in exchange for $50 grocery store gift cards, the city announced.

Although many of the guns turned in were generations-old rifles and shotguns, a few of the guns more typically used in crimes — handguns, specifically — were among those collected.

“This shows that people will be behind a positive activity,” said Deputy Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway, who spearheaded the event at Reunion Arena. “Some of those guns are ones our officers are up against.”

Throughout the morning, a steady stream of young and old braved the cold temperatures to turn in their guns. Mayor Tom Leppert said he initially expected officers would take in about 20 weapons. But just an hour and a half into the event, 77 guns had been exchanged for $50 Kroger cards.

“It’s more than I thought we were going to get,” Leppert said. “I’m pleasantly surprised.”

Dallas police officers who examined the guns asked nothing of the people turning them in other than to see their driver’s licenses. Officers tagged the guns and inspected them to make sure they were still functioning. After putting the guns through a 20-minute inspection process, officers placed them in bins and gave the gift cards. The guns eventually will be smelted.

Those who came to the buyback had different reasons for participating. Some said their guns had been handed down but were never used. Others said they didn’t want the guns around their children. And some wanted money for groceries.

Gary Reed said he exchanged his guns because of his Christian faith. Reed pulled his SUV into the old arena’s parking lot around 10:30 a.m., and an officer approached him.

“What you got there,” Lt. Gary Tittle asked.

“I got two of them. No, three of them,” Reed responded as he pulled out a shotgun, rifle and pistol from the back seat his SUV’s back seat.

The two men walked into Reunion Arena, and the officer asked why Reed decided to bring the guns in.

“My church has been asking me to do more,” said Reed, 42, who drove 25 minutes to Dallas from Crandall. “These were weapons I got in my younger years, and I’ll leave it at that.”

Reed said he planned to take the $150 worth of gift cards he’d receive and give them away to strangers.

Caraway said that although the guns collected might not have been used in crimes, that wasn’t the point of the buyback. Some of the weapons could have been stolen later and used in crimes, he said. Others might have laid around homes, where children could have played with them.

“Some of these guns are very dangerous,” Caraway said. “It takes only one gun, one shot to destroy a family.”

[philw]

“Some of these guns are very dangerous,” Caraway said. “It takes only one gun, one shot to destroy a family.”

your shitting me.....

only some of them   Shit   


in the wrong hands  even pens and keyboards can be dangerous

[twyacht]

Dallas police officers who examined the guns asked nothing of the people turning them in other than to see their driver’s licenses. Officers tagged the guns and inspected them to make sure they were still functioning. After putting the guns through a 20-minute inspection process, officers placed them in bins and gave the gift cards.

20 minute inspection of a beat up old Sears & Roebuck 12g single shot? or some other beat up .38 Snub nose?

Good Job!

“Some of those guns are ones our officers are up against.”

I thought LEO's were outgunned? I'm all for the "grass eaters" to turn in junk, get the old inventory out of the hands of people who never took the care, time, or training to have one. I went to one in NC, and turned in a bent barrel, no stock H&R .410 single shot that "barely" worked. They were outside a Charlotte Gun Show. 

I used the cash for new ammo,....

[fullautovalmet76]

“Some of those guns are ones our officers are up against.”

I thought LEO's were outgunned? I'm all for the "grass eaters" to turn in junk, get the old inventory out of the hands of people who never took the care, time, or training to have one. I went to one in NC, and turned in a bent barrel, no stock H&R .410 single shot that "barely" worked. They were outside a Charlotte Gun Show. 

I used the cash for new ammo,....

I turned in a cheap gun I bought in the early 90's and got more for it through the buy-back than what it was worth. I just smiled at them and thought about how foolish they looked doing this. And that year and every year since, the murder rate went up in my town......