And yet ... these deadly cities are still ... deadly. Funny how that happens.

Thugs steal guns, get money for them, then steal more guns. They aren´t giving up their favorites, that´s for sure.

If I lived in ´´America´s deadliest city´´ the last thing in the world I would consider is to turn in my personal firearm.

And the first consideration - I would move out of Camden...

Seems there are a lot of fools in Camden.

Look at the photo. Looks like a pile of old, broken junk. Most are not worth the cash paid for them by the fascists... Oh, I mean "government."

One seriously wonders where AP and their UK counterpart get their facts...

According to US News - Camden NJ doesn´t make the top 10 list of ´dangerous cities´ in the US.

According to Yahoo News - it doesn´t even come in the top 25 in that category.

But hey - sure did sound nifty in the fairy tale version...

Well I´m sure this will result in the violent crime rate in Camden taking a BIG drop. Right? Right?

Photo caption quote, "It wasn´t just criminals who handed back their rifles and firearms to the police on Friday and Saturday - law abiding citizens did too" I highly doubt criminals stood in line and sold their weapons; the caption is a misleading lie.

$250.00 each for these old junkers ?

This is another ´cash for clunkers´ deal that helps thugs trade up to better and newer models.

Sorry I missed it.

I´m saving up for the new Barrett 50.

My wife will be thrilled when she finds it under the tree !

Now for the "acid test".......How many of these deadly weapons were surrendered by "The Bloods," "The Sons of Malcolm X," "The Perez Organization" and "The Middle of the Block Boys."?

Study the picture in the article closely. This is what communism and group-think look like.

Sorry, folks. I saw some good firearms there. Right in the middle of the pile is a Henry (gold receiver) and even as a reproduction, worth about 1000 dollars. As an authentic Henry, worth more than a new car.
Buybacks accomplish nothing, however, than a false sense of accomplishment.

I wonder how many of these guns have the serial number grinded off.

Holder could make a fortune in Camden.

From what I could see, not all were junk---far from it. If they sorted thru they´d likely find many fully serviceable and collectible pieces.

Many of the arms there are not all that "pretty" but there was at least one each: M1891 Mosin-Nagant, SKS, M-1 carbine, Ruger 10-22, Winchester M-94 or Henry lever-action with brass plated or all brass receiver, to name only a few. These are not junk, but fun shooters and plinkers. My screen is small, so I could not identify many of the arms in the pile.

Took another, closer look. Also a US M-1898 Krag, and a WW-1 vintage German M-1898 Mauser, a Browning BAR semi-automatic rifle NOT to be confused with the BAR selective fire weapon used by the military from the ´30´s to the 60´s.

Saw that too, #12.......was looking at one 2 weeks ago at a show. Darn nice piece of equipment.

Hey crooks , here´s another good place to terroroize - look at that pile of stuff that will no longer threaten you.

Boy, I wish that program would get started where I live. I´d like to sell some inoperable $50 clunkers that aren´t worth anything, and make some money for my next purchase.

That Henry caught my eye as well. Was pricing one of those in .45 long colt the other day; very nice piece of gear. I would submit that either most of weapons were stolen, or there are some mighty delusional folks in Camden, NJ

The predator element has to be licking their chops, they have just been given a wonderful Christmas present, hundreds more unarmed victims in waiting.

FTA: "´The more we unarm ourselves then maybe we can stop some of the violence that´s going on. If we don´t have the firearm then we can´t use the firearm,´ said James Green, who turned over his firearm."

"Stop violence by unarming ourselves"! I hereby nominate Mr. Green as idiot of the year

I wonder what Mr. Green will do if he should happen to cross paths with any of the bad guys who didn´t turn in their weapons. I´m sure once he explains his progressive stance on gun control to them they will let him pass on his way unmolested...

How many federal laws and ATF regs were violated by those doing the purchases?

Old, broken and rusty guns turned in, i.e. overpriced scrap metal. If they were still functioning, they´d have been sold in the booming gun market. Feel good (for liberals) programs like this are always failures and a waste of money.

There were a few nice ones in the picture, but also some Jennings, Raven and at least one Mitchell. None are even suitable to hammer a nail. cash value new of those is about $60 each.

That´s easy to answer. Those old guns had serial numbers which could be traced back to them. Now they can get street guns with the serial numbers obliterated.

This reminds me of all the craziness after "Jaws" came out. I wonder if people will come to realize, just like sharks, firearms while dangerous have an important role to play. Sharks in the ecosystem of the oceans, firearms in the shaping and protection of liberty.