Joe Huffman asked a question very close to the title of this post in one of his posts which I can no longer find to link to, but it is a question I’d like answered nonetheless.
Homeowners once looking for protection, ex-hunters and wary parents were among those who pulled up to The Pyramid Saturday to unload their rifles, semiautomatics, shotguns and revolvers.
The gun turn-in program that ran throughout the day was held by the Memphis Police Department in cooperation with WMC TV-5 and Soul Classics 103.5.
Not intended to round up the firearms of lawbreakers, the event was aimed at law-abiding citizens who have the power to stop their own guns from falling into violent hands, said Sgt. Vince Higgins, spokesman for Memphis police.
“Ninety percent of the guns we get from criminals are stolen in burglaries,” said Higgins, who added that most of those guns are sold on the street.
“A criminal is not walking around with a gun that’s registered to him; it’s a gun he’s obtained illegally,” he said.
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Over the years, there have been several other gun turn-in programs in Memphis. They’ve resulted in collections that have ranged anywhere from 22 to more than 1,000 guns. In the first hour of Saturday’s collection, police had already cataloged 18 guns.
“If we get one gun that’s one less gun possibly used in a crime,” said Higgins.
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Screw you Higgins. I’d be willing to bet that a goodly number of the ‘potential murder weapons’ you’re collecting don’t even operate and that in the future you’ll be visiting more than a few homes of the people who are showing up to collect their bribe.Â
The guys with the badges who talk to the press about how dangerous personal ownership of firearms is are a minority from every other officer I’ve known or been aquainted with.
That is, unless there is some large pool of these jackasses that only the media knows about.
Sent by reader and co-worker Paul
Soon after my wife and I had our second son we went form Texas to Louisana to vistit my parents. My father who lived on my grandmothers land and who was a Tangipahoa Parish Deptuty Sherif told me to go to the car and get my pistol so we could go out back and shoot a few rounds (firing my fathers gun collection was our only real bonding when I was little).
When I told him I had sold my .45 because we needed the money, a very dissapointed scowl came across his face. He stormed inside and came out with a Belgium made Browning Hi-power, which he pratically shoved in my hand.
He then proceded to lecture me that if I was to ever go unarmed, anywhere with his grandchildren in the car again he casually instruct me on what the term “pistol wipped” means.
The Hi-power has been relegated to the gun safe as a family heirloom (sp) but his words I take with me everywhere. And I bought a new 45 (S&W 4506)
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