{"id":33396,"date":"2013-04-29T23:20:13","date_gmt":"2013-04-30T05:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/arizona-gun-buybacks-must-be-resold.html"},"modified":"2013-04-30T10:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-30T16:14:00","slug":"arizona-gun-buybacks-must-be-resold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/04\/29\/arizona-gun-buybacks-must-be-resold.html","title":{"rendered":"Arizona gun buybacks must be resold"},"content":{"rendered":"
Lovely. \u00a0Some municipalities try to reduce gun availability in communities by sponsoring gun buybacks — providing a certain amount of cash (or gift cards) for no-longer-desired weapons, and then destroying the unwanted firearms, the idea being that unwanted guns are removed from circulation.<\/p>\n

That offends the good, gun-owning GOP of Arizona. So, with the NRA's support, they've now passed a state law saying that if a city or county\u00a0government holds a gun buyback, they then have to turn around and sell those guns to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n

Nice to see that whole "local government is most representative and responsive and should be given priority over higher government mandates" philosophy so eloquently ignored by Jan Brewer, et al.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ariz. bill requiring resale of buyback guns signed<\/a>
\n PHOENIX\u2014Arizona cities and counties that hold community gun buyback events will have to sell the surrendered weapons instead of destroying them under a bill Gov.\n <\/p>\n

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Lovely. \u00a0Some municipalities try to reduce gun availability in communities by sponsoring gun buybacks — providing a certain amount of cash (or gift cards) for no-longer-desired weapons, and then destroying the unwanted firearms, the idea being that unwanted guns are removed from circulation. That offends the good, gun-owning GOP of Arizona. So, with the NRA's … Continue reading “Arizona gun buybacks must be resold”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":42433,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/guns-guns-guns-guns-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":33396,"position":0},"title":"Guns, guns, guns, guns","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 7-Jun-14 11:28am","format":false,"excerpt":"Ran across the below, and it prompted a flurry of tiny aneurysms. \u00a0If your prime counter-example is a domestic terrorist from almost twenty years go, it seems you're reaching -- especially when the number of people killed by guns in that same time frame is much, much higher.The analogy falls\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/BoQai8fIgAAk6n6.png.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":128303,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/10\/13\/the-only-thing-that-can-stop-a-crazy-with-a-gun-is-um-no-more-crazy.html","url_meta":{"origin":33396,"position":1},"title":"The only thing that can stop a Crazy with a Gun is … um … no more Crazy!","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 13-Oct-15 11:10pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Jeb! has revealed his secret plan to stop mass killings: http:\/\/www.stonekettle.com\/2015\/10\/bang-bang-crazy-two-in-bush.htmlThe cause of all this gun violence is that crazy people can get guns! 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