LAS CRUCES, NM GUN BUYBACK

[OLDNAVYMCPO]

Las Cruces is touting a " successful" gun buyback promoted by the Police Dept and the New Mexicans to Prevent Gun Violence.

Citizens were offered gift cards in return for firearms. Gift cards valued at $250 for any semi-auto rifle, $200 for semi-auto pistols and $100 for any others.

The guns will be disassembled and made into lawn art, garden tools and other useful items which will be sold and money used to support future buybacks.

160 guns were bought-back from a population of 101,759 citizens whose largest age group is between 25 and 44. 56.8 % Hispanic, 34.3 % white with 23.3 % of total, living below the poverty level.






The Police Chief stated that the buyback was not an anti 2nd amendment statement but to make the citizens safer. Help to keep unwanted firearms from possibly being stolen and out of the hands of criminals.

Another very successful gun buyback. I'm sure the residents feel safer already.

UPDATE: Buyback must not have been wildly successful, two men shot at 3:00 AM Sunday. One 16 and one 20. No further news from LCPD.

 

[RGVshooter]

yeah, I'm sure all the bad guys & felons are going to run right over to the police station and turn in their guns, in the meantime...$250 bux for ANY semi auto rifle? Heck yeah! I have this old Ruger 10/22 I'll turn in so I can take my 250 gift card and apply that towards the purchase of a new gun!

 

[BAM-BAM]

Pre-68 folks use to just bring in guns to the Police Station that they didn't want or they found cleaning out Dad's or Granddad"s house.......at one time Dad had a nice little collection of .25 Colt Pocket autos.... and single shot .22 rifles........

 

[Rustyt1953]

Two years ago the CPD advertised a 'no questions' buy-back using gift cards.

They got a whopping 49 guns of which most were shotguns and bolt-action rifles in very poor working order. (one of Ruthie's cousins worked the detail)

The area head of NAN called it a 'great victory'.

I felt so safe that I pondered surrendering my CCL and getting a whistle. I decided against it as I don't have the lung power to get the pea rolling.

 

[Hillbilly77]

....as I don't have the lung power to get the pea rolling.

What?!


Oh, "pea".

Never mind.

 

[WPWarhawk]

Two years ago the CPD advertised a 'no questions' buy-back using gift cards.

They got a whopping 49 guns of which most were shotguns and bolt-action rifles in very poor working order. (one of Ruthie's cousins worked the detail)

The area head of NAN called it a 'great victory'.
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I felt so safe that I pondered surrendering my CCL and getting a whistle. I decided against it as I don't have the lung power to get the pea rolling.

Rusty, you ought to be a writer, you have a gift.

 

[MRB1]

Wonder where all the good stuff ended up.

 

[Rustyt1953]

Rusty, you ought to be a writer, you have a gift.

Thanks.

It's all those years in time out and detention with nothing to play with but my brain box.

 

[Pondoro]

Back in the '90s we had some $100 buy backs while H&R single shot 410's were selling for $70 at Walmart! I wish I'd taken them up on that.

 

[Protocall_Design]

Around here anytime they did a "buyback" all they got was a bunch of worthless junk no one wanted anyway. The buybackers were happy, they didn't know the difference. A gun's a gun, right?

 

[joeintexas]

I see a lot of Jimenez Arms .380s with rust being in lawn art in Las Cruces. Being that close to the border I imagine there are tons of 50$ saturday night specials on the street. $200 bucks sounded good to them. At least the city is safer now.

 

[okiegtrider]

Need to look around here for some things to bring to the gun buy back. Using the money to fund a 3-D printer.

 

[Warren Sear]

The term "buyback" always amuses me; unless they sold the gun, how can they buy it back? But never mind, if it makes them feel good.

Another total waste of taxpayer money, and not a single crime is stopped, of course.

 

[Stevens]

They are going to use the funds they get from selling gun parts as "lawn art"?!
I don't think there will be much profit coming from that!
Couillons!
Steve W

 

[steelslaver]

I have never heard of a buy back program in Montana. Maybe someday in Missoula, but I doubt it. I think a few years ago there was on in Washington state that a bunch of guys went to and turned it into a auction. Offering the people better than "buy back" prices for anything worth anything. LOL

I do have an old 22 single shot I would might dump if the price was right.

 

[usmc2427765]

Politics is not an honorable profession.....the chief needs to learn this.

 

[ACORN]

Wonder where all the good stuff ended up.

A few years ago the local news had a glowing report on a local "buy back" and had a couple shots of the guns they got. A bunch of single shots, IJ type top breaks etc. There in the middle of a table was what appeared to be either a S&W Mod. 38 or 49. I hope somebody "liberated" the little fella! IIRC the going rate was < $100 a gun(sniff)

 

[Grayfox]

Back in the 1990s they tried it in Memphis twice. I bought a RG 22 from a co-worker for $10 took it in and got a $50 grocery store and a $25 gas gift certificates for it. Making a nice return on my investment.
I also brought all the cash I could scrounge together to work the line offering cash for any gun worth anything. However, I went home empty handed as there was nothing worth buying. All people had was total junk.
When I handed over the RG, the officer shook his head and said "Yeah, we're seeing a lot of these today."
If I remember correctly, they took in about 250 guns that day. For a city the size of Memphis, that's not even a drop in a bucket.

The second time they tried it, I believe the price was up to about $100. They were set up in one of the exhibit buildings at the old fairgrounds. It just so happened that on that same day in another building across the parking lot that there was a Gun Show. The gun show reported over 5000 attendees while the buy back only took in 50 guns.
They've not tried it again.

 

[RGVshooter]

Back in the 1990s they tried it in Memphis twice. I bought a RG 22 from a co-worker for $10 took it in and got a $50 grocery store and a $25 gas gift certificates for it. Making a nice return on my investment.

wow! what a deal! Even a south Texas pawn store wouldn't loan out cash for a old RG revolver...

 

[Golddollar]

The thing that bothers me about the gun buy-ups and turn-ins is that occasionally a quality piece ends up as a manhole cover. An employee of a gun shop over by York told me about when he was working for the Baltimore Police department and a lady came in with two handguns that she wanted to have destroyed. He pleaded with her to try to sell them somewhere but she was adamant that she wanted them destroyed. They were a Colt Single Action Army and a 1911 Government Model made by Singer Sewing Machine Co.

On a better note, a police department around Reading, PA advised a widow to sell her late husband's guns instead of having them destroyed. One of them was a High Standard .22 target pistol with Herritt grips that her husband had used in competition. She did take their advice and it ended up on Gunbroker with a gun shop in Reading, PA. I drove up to the shop, looked at the gun and now it's in my safe.