Edhat Staff
(Photo: Coalition Against Gun Violence, A Santa Barbara County Coalition)
Source: Santa Barbara Police Department
The Santa Barbara Police Department & Coalition Against Gun Violence hosted an Anonymous Gun Buyback on Saturday May 12, 2018 from 8:00 a.m. to noon in the parking lot of the Earl Warren Showgrounds. $100.00 Smart & Final Supermarket gift cards were given to people turning in functioning handguns, shotguns, and rifles and $200.00 Smart & Final Supermarket gift cards were given to people turning in functioning California classified assault weapons.
This was our most successful buyback to date with over $23,000.00 worth of gift cards distributed. Free gun locks were also given away.
In total, 260 firearms were collected consisting of 99 handguns, 107 rifles, 49 shotguns, and 5 assault weapons.
Since 2014 SBPD and CAGV have collected 885 unwanted guns during buyback events.
Past Articles
- April 27, 2018: SBPD Host Anonymous Gun Buyback
Good riddance! A small step toward becoming a civilized society.
A society remains civil only when the desires of tyranny are tempered. That veneer of civilization is very thin…
It’s only thin on the troglodytes.
We’d remind you of that after the Big One hits, but the electricity will be down for weeks so it will have to wait. Good luck protecting you and your loved ones with big words like “troglodyte”.
While the bean-buriers are cowering in their bunkers caressing their assault weapons in fear, the rest of us will be helping each other and working to improve the situation.
Come on now, it sounds grand but you’re being silly. Even the government in the UK reported last month that after missing just four meals due to electrical outages, anarchy will make most cities uninhabitable. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/03/17/britain-four-meals-away-anarchy-cyber-attack-takes-power-grid/
All I need is brussel sprouts and a bic lighter.
The “Daily Torygraph”, definitely an authoritative source for opinions of civilization.
I sure hope the buyback people check these guns against their stolen guns lists. What a racket. Steal someone’s gun. Use it to commit crimes. Turn it in anonymously at a ‘gun buyback’ event. Get paid for the stolen gun. And some folks wonder why crime keeps increasing.
A fool and his firearm are soon parted…
One can only hope. As it is now, too many fools with firearms.
That’s a great debate technique: Make something up, like they might not be checked, and then trash the event based on your imagination.