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DOJ: Philly Gun Buyback Program Misused over $450,000



by AWR Hawkins 22 Jan 2014


The Department of Justice (DOJ) says a Philadelphia gun buyback program misused more than $450,000 provided for the program. The buyback program was administered by the Police Safety Net (PSN).

According to NBC Philadelphia, the DOJ's inspector general found that "62 percent" of the total grant money allotted to the PSN was used for "unallowable, unsupported, and/or unreasonable" expenses.

For example, PSN's executive director Raymond Jones used some of the money to give "himself an $85,065 pay increase" over a period of two years. This brought his annual pay to $287,565.

Moreover, PSN spent "$29,750 in rent on a building that was used once a month" and did not properly account for utility bills totaling $13,947.

PSN was supposed to use the money to buy gift cards to be given to citizens who brought guns into the buyback program. However, the DOJ also discovered there were 280 gift cards which had not been traded for a firearm yet could not be accounted for.

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Not to mention the fact that if a fool did dare "sell back" his firearm they give him pennies on the dollar for the sold firearm.

If folks were to set up an "information booth" and give the true "Blue Book Value" of every firearm that came through before the progressives could get their slimy hands on them, Im quite sure the sellers would think twice.

Firearms appreciate in value just like precious metals..

Yet they're giving uninformed folks $25 gift cards to Fudruckers.
 

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