By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
Got an old gun laying around you’d like to get rid of?
The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office will take it off your hands, if you like.
Their first ever public event to give citizens the opportunity to dispose of unwanted firearms or ammunition is set for next month.
While they won’t pay you for it, they will have free gun locks to give away. And their SWAT and dive teams will put some of their equipment on display.
It happens on Jan. 19, a Saturday, from 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the McLane Fire Department at 125 Delphi Road NW, Olympia.
Sheriff’s Lt. Greg Elwin says the gun givers can choose if their donated weapon gets traded for ammunition for deputies to use in training or gets destroyed.
“If you want it ground up, we’ll do that,” Elwin said.
If it’s traded, it will go to a vendor who will resell it, he said.
Also on hand the same day will be a collection bin for unwanted or old prescription drugs as well as a child identification program provided by Olympia-Thurston County Crime Stoppers.
Tags: By Sharyn L. Decker, news reporter
Lmao i wish i could stand there and tell the people turning in there guns how stupid they are..
i hope no one turns in shit.
Freakin’ Greeners!
Old Loong Johhnsoon: “Keep it up Lewis County…” Uh the buy back is being offered by Thurston County not Lewis.
This is just as dumb as adding the Sheriff’s Department to your Face Book. Each year the American Government kills thosands of innocent people with guns. Oh lets not Forget how many people are saved by Guns each year. The Government wants to disarm the American people so they can finish with their master plan. Socialism controled by the Dictator Obama the Kenyan, whom ships guns in to Mexico to blame the Second Amendment. Fast and Furious ring a bell anyone, oh that’s right Obama signed an exeuctive order that allows him to not testify against himself.
Thanks, but I think I’ll keep my gun. It’ll be safer. Who knows who the cops would sell it to?
Oh, another cop/donut joke… how original.
True, gun buyback programs do little to reduce violent crime. In fact its most often the guns that have been sitting in closets collecting dust that get turned in. But if gun owners, or inheriters arent willing to take responsibility for the gun in the home, then this is a good avenue to get rid of them.
The programs usually offer something in return, such as a recent program near Los Angeles that gave away over $100k in grocery gift cards. I cant imagine much success though in just asking for them. It will be interesting to see how successful it is.
“What did they give you, nothing”
That’s not entirely accurate. If there was no crime to pursue and they had the pleasure to sit around eating donuts, you would be 100% correct.
But, there was all kinds of crime (especially homocide by police officers) that was just swept under the rug to make what they gave the community to be LESS than nothing.
Yeah, the cops want free handouts when they performed negatively in the crime-stopping business.
The jokes just keep coming! Keep it up Lewis County.
Plus why turn your gun in for the police to sell and make a profit on? What did they give you, nothing!
Dumb indeed.
“The continuation of buyback programs is a triumph of wishful thinking over all the available evidence,” said Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California at Davis – Chicago Tribune 9/6/2000
At a U.S. National Institute of Justice lecture delivered just weeks before Clinton’s grant announcement, University of Pennsylvania professor Lawrence Sherman, who headed a wide-ranging assessment of crime prevention programs, called gun buybacks “the program that is best-known to be ineffective” in reducing firearms violence. – Chicago Tribune 9/6/2000
While LAPD Chief Charlie Beck has called gun buybacks one tool among many to prevent gun violence, their value was questioned by a 2004 report by the National Academy of Sciences. “Firearms and Violence: A Critical Review,” found that “the theory underlying gun buyback programs is badly flawed, and the empirical evidence demonstrates the ineffectiveness of these programs.” The report found that guns that are typically surrendered in buyback programs are those that are least likely to be used in criminal activities… — Daily News Los Angeles 12/26/12
Why turn in your gun when it may be re sold to someone else? Kinda defeats the purpose! Dumb!!!