New phrase: Recovering firearms

[Library Guy]

“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means”

“In the future, in place of ‘search and destroy,’ substitute the phrase ‘sweep and clear’."​

If you liked gun buybacks then you’ll love “Firearm Recovery”

I came across this citation whilst traipsing about PubMed:

Identifying Armed Respondents to Domestic Violence Restraining Orders and Recovering Their Firearms: Process Evaluation of an Initiative in California. Am J Public Health. 2013 Dec 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24328660.​

The abstract outlines the California initiative to recover (i.e. take, remove, confiscate) firearms from those slapped with a domestic violence restraining order. I’m not arguing the legal niceties of the program simply the semantics. The word recovery, like buyback, suggests that the government is taking what was once theirs. It sounds so agreeable, reasonable, and helpful...

“Nonrecovery occurred when respondents informed authorities they lost their firearms in boating accidents.” Okay, I made up that last bit.

 

[Doctor_M]

Newspeak... George Orwell would be proud.

 

[Scratch]

http://www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/publish/news/newsroom/8529

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2013.301484

I'm sure MRAP's will come in handy...

 

[Docster]

Newspeak... George Orwell would be proud.

Unfortunately

 

[FoxFirearms]

You gotta love the "Play On Words".

 

[Half-cocked]

Yep.

Just like they were benevolently called "relocation camps" under Nazi Germany.

 

[Benanov]

Newspeak... George Orwell would be proud.

Two minutes' hate has been increased to 1 minute and 30 seconds. The mandatory company party will follow with refreshments provided.

 

[Brooklyn]

And what the f..k does this have to do with public health?

Tell you what if you are willing to send Drs to do the recovery its public health.. if swat teams then I am guessing its still law enforcement...

 

[pcfixer]

“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means”

“In the future, in place of ‘search and destroy,’ substitute the phrase ‘sweep and clear’."​

If you liked gun buybacks then you’ll love “Firearm Recovery”

I came across this citation whilst traipsing about PubMed:

Identifying Armed Respondents to Domestic Violence Restraining Orders and Recovering Their Firearms: Process Evaluation of an Initiative in California. Am J Public Health. 2013 Dec 12. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 24328660.​

The abstract outlines the California initiative to recover (i.e. take, remove, confiscate) firearms from those slapped with a domestic violence restraining order. I’m not arguing the legal niceties of the program simply the semantics. The word recovery, like buyback, suggests that the government is taking what was once theirs. It sounds so agreeable, reasonable, and helpful...

“Nonrecovery occurred when respondents informed authorities they lost their firearms in boating accidents.” Okay, I made up that last bit.

NO More Mr Nice Guy, NO Play on Words.

 

[Streetgang]

I love gun buy-backs. Have attended many and saved many firearms from destruction and either gifted them to friends or placed them in my personal museum

King Ranch, type 7 FFL

Not to derail the thread, but how do you accomplish that? I'd like to help with the cause.

 

[Benanov]

Not to derail the thread, but how do you accomplish that? I'd like to help with the cause.

Short version. I do not have an FFL. Corrections invited.

Show up; set up a table/chair in a public spot where you have a right to be. Bring sign if allowed. Have disposable income, make offers that beat the buyback prices. Spend money, receive firearms.

HQL or FFL optional (as you can still purchase Cash & Carry weapons without them) but strongly encouraged so you can pick up handguns and the like.

You're not breaking any laws by offering to purchase a firearm in a private sale if you're a legal recipient. You might need to go to the MSP barracks for regulated firearms; I am fuzzy on this.

I'm fuzzy on whether you need a NICS check for a private sale for cash & carry weapon (e.g., shotgun). To the best of my knowledge the answer is no, even here, amazingly.

 

[etc]

The public debate, as on every other point, is cloaked in euphemisms. Nothing really means what it says. Double-talk everywhere. You have to decode it.