If you're unfamiliar with it ,the donation game works like any other emotional addiction ( think gambling).
As idiotic as the BATFs 'take' on this is they are referencing functional, ammo firing guns - not hand tools made from salvaged gun parts, which I am sure none were, or ever will be made.
It was a joke.
I was surprised to see a chapter in Sandy Utah. Where I grew up, our house on a through street, was in Midvale. Across the street was Sandy. I presume all the Mormon churches, in that semi rural area at the time, are still there? I think those Mormon's believe in the second amendment. Whatever church gets involved would have to to be one of them "likes to get in everybody's business" kind of churches. That wasn't what I remembered of The Mormons. Well, unless your a member and get caught living in sin.
It was mentioned a Lutheran church was the helper.
what bothers me the most about all of this is the blatant disregard and ignorance of pre-existing gun laws that these people supported and pushed for. No comprehension of bgc or transfer laws, no intent to acknowledge or even research the laws that apply to sales and transfers. They are blatantly trying to obtain firearms in a criminal manner (albeit, the guns they're obtaining are essentially useless for the purpose of common criminal activity) but they think it's ok because of their "purpose"? These people are a shining example of deaf, blind, and dumb.
You forgot to mention, willfully. As in willfully being deaf, blind and dumb.
That's pretty bad bubblegum.
No doubt part of it however I suspect there is a lot of 'genuine' ignorance about the laws as well.
My problem is, how long can one be ignorant? These people have been spreading the same lies and falsehoods for decades in some instances. Theatrics on mainstream news with so called "experts". So, Mary down the street may be in the dark on guns but these law makers 30-40 years in, cannot, not know what they tell people is incorrect.
How ironic. 'Those who pound their muskets into plows will plow for those who didn't.'What even is this?
Blasphemy...
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Just saw this on the news, chopping up guns into pieces to be melted down and remade into gardening tools.
I know some people want to get rid of old guns that might be roughed up, broken or salvage, but perfectly fine, functional guns with actual value? How do I get people to stop this insanity and donate them to me? Can we start a shelter for unloved and unwanted guns? It'll be a rehabilitation and fostering center to find them new caring and SAFE homes.
I've lived in cities most of my life and almost no one who is law-abiding knows anything at all about guns, or gun laws except criminals and the occasional war history buff or under the radar vet. The only small town I lived in the only gun most people knew about was a pin-tail big wave surfboard. The criminals most people encounter engaged in property crimes and they don't have guns either, because they would have sold them for a fix. Most gun owning criminals were typically in the drug trade or organized crime and not targeting normal people. City folks don't hunt and even though they eat animals they would would find hunting distasteful. Until recently most were never more than a 3 to five minute response time from a 911 call, and serious to deadly assaults rare enough to consider that the victim hit the anti-lottery and were just exceptionally unlucky. Contrary to the idea that cities are a hotbed of crime, most of the time most violent crime is limited to pretty small geographic areas and that crime doesn't impact most people with any sort of opinion that matters or political power. For most people who live in cities, guns are a problem not a solution. They view guns as things that make dangerous people more dangerous, not tools that can make them safer from dangerous people. They have good intentions and have trouble grasping that firearm ownership has been ruled a constitutional right and only see that firearms are only good for killing people. The aren't necessarily wrong in their circumstance, but they have trouble grasping everybody else's circumstances.
I think it may be a little less severe than you seem to be painting it. I've lived in cities most of my life and met a lot of gun owners. I live in a liberal area now, and routinely strike up conversations with neighbors, people in stores and so forth. Guns come up most of the time when people ask what I've be up to because that's a lot of what I do. I get a positive reaction most of the time, and most of them know at least a little. This is not to say that there are not a lot of people like you describe, but in my experience, it's nowhere near all of them.
Their problem is that they don't have common sense. They are not able to analyze a situation and understand how something works. They believe everyone should live as they do. They are democrats. They hate the freedoms that made America the best country in the world. They should get the hell out.
Ditto this.
I don't get what I vote for. I get what the woke idiots in multnomah county vote for. And I don't like it one bit.
I voted for Obama, the first time. It was for sure, partly, because he was black. If I had known what a racist lying dog he would turn out to be?
