Remember the ads that were in the back of comic books? You know the ones that promised X-Ray vision glasses or pet Sea Monkeys (just add water). I don’t know anybody who ordered anything. But somebody must have responded, the advertisers kept advertising. Sixty years later those gullible purchasers from yesteryear are still making bad purchasing decisions. This time they are using other people’s money.
The scammers have moved from comic books to the MSM. PT Barnum has been proven right once again. These days we don’t call them suckers, but liberals.
Houston’s Democrat Mayor Sylvester Turner held a gun buyback event in a church parking lot where residents could turn in their firearms and receive a gift card ranging from $50 to $200 with no questions asked. According to the Mayor’s announcement, the funds provided to those turning in firearms came from the American Rescue Plan — aka American taxpayers — and the amount-per-firearm was $50.00 for a non-functioning firearm, $100.00 for a rifle or shotgun, $150.00 for a handgun, and $200.00 for a fully automatic rifle.
Moonbattery blog
One man showed up to the buyback with dozens of 3D-printed firearms, and Houston authorities had no choice but to accept them and hand over gift cards in return. The real kicker: it only cost the man $3 to print each firearm, of which he made 62, and received $50 per 3D-printed gun for a total of nearly $3,000 in gift cards.
The reality is that gun buybacks don’t work. Many of the guns that get turned in are not functional. Secondly, the people turning them in are unlikely to populate the class of felons that shoot up neighborhoods. If some con artist wants to do a buyback in your town demand an accounting. Demand that a gunsmith inspect each weapon and render an opinion that the gun is functional and meets the criteria for a firearm as determined by ATF rules. If it doesn’t no cash.
I sure hope word of this snafu doesn’t get back to Washington D.C. I can see the democrats going on a submarine buying spree.
