{"id":1760,"date":"2014-03-25T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/03\/25\/the-anti-gun-buyback\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:23:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:23:51","slug":"the-anti-gun-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1760","title":{"rendered":"The Anti-Anti-Gun Buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12051,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.katv.com\\\/story\\\/25049692\\\/jefferson-county-sheriffs-public-gun-auction-breaks-previous-record&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.katv.com\\\/story\\\/25049692\\\/jefferson-county-sheriffs-public-gun-auction-breaks-previous-record&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:12052,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.jeffcoso.org\\\/press_view.php?id=921&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.jeffcoso.org\\\/press_view.php?id=921&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nIn some areas of the country, police departments conduct gun buybacks in the mistaken belief that it will &#8220;take guns off the streets&#8221;. The reality is that it allows people to dump old clunkers as well as allow criminals to ditch hot guns without a question.<\/p>\n<p>In a refreshing turn of events, the Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department in Pine Bluff, Arkansas just had a gun auction that raised over $125,000 for the Sheriff&#8217;s Department and the Tri-County Drug Task Force. The auction was held in accordance with Arkansas law (A.C.A. \u00a7 5-5-101) that mandates the public auction of seized weapons and contraband by the law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" class=\"tr-caption-container\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/jcsD-IMG_0977.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/jcsD-IMG_0977.jpg\" height=\"265\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"tr-caption\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Courtesy of the Jefferson County Sheriff&#8217;s Department<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This was the first auction that the Sheriff&#8217;s Department held since 2005 when they only netted about $15,000 in proceeds. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katv.com\/story\/25049692\/jefferson-county-sheriffs-public-gun-auction-breaks-previous-record\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This auction was the largest auction in the county&#8217;s history.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>Approximately 600 people from across the state attended the auction with 380 registered bidders. Approximately 204 checks were processed through the NICS. However, 6 individuals hoping to leave with a firearm were disappointed after receiving 3-day delayed notices and one (1) individual was denied approval to purchase firearms by the ATF. <\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Each gun auctioned went to the highest bidder. The highest bid at of $2,375.00 was for a Winchester .38 WCF L.A. Rifle and the lowest bid was $5.00 for a Marksman 177 Caliber BB Pistol.  <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I like this quote from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeffcoso.org\/press_view.php?id=921\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JCSD&#8217;s press release:<\/a> &#8220;Today\u2019s auction provided citizens an informative, secure, and safe way to buy firearms at a bargain.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I think this is a sheriff that get&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some areas of the country, police departments conduct gun buybacks in the mistaken belief that it will &#8220;take&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2625,1264],"class_list":["post-1760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-arkansas","tag-gun-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9787,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1760\/revisions\/9787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}