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<blockquote data-quote="HiredHand" data-source="post: 1877750" data-attributes="member: 2469"><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/gun-buying_enthusiasts_crash_f.html" target="_blank">http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/gun-buying_enthusiasts_crash_f.html</a>Excerpt from the article: Portland police officers assisted with paperwork and processing the guns turned in to the foundation. Central Precinct Sgt. Tim Sessions said the police did not have a problem with the buyers on the sidewalk. &quot;They have a right to buy guns,&quot; Sessions said. &quot;That&#039;s in the Constitution. So that doesn&#039;t bother me a bit.&quot; Sessions dismissed the possibility that the sidewalk buyers would then sell to &quot;undesirables. That&#039;s not the case. These people know what they&#039;re doing, They know the laws. They know they&#039;d lose that right if they did sell to the undesirables.&quot; Equally unlikely, said Sessions, who assisted the foundation with its guns buyback for nine years, is the notion that gang members would be among those turning in guns. &quot;They really would like to see the gangs turn in the guns,&quot; Sessions said. &quot;And I tell them, &#039;Keep wishing that.&#039; But it&#039;s not going to happen.&quot; Gang members, first of all, want to hold onto their guns because &quot;a gun means power. And two, they see us, the police, and they say &#039;We don&#039;t want to be caught with a gun.&#039;&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HiredHand, post: 1877750, member: 2469"] [url]http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2012/08/gun-buying_enthusiasts_crash_f.html[/url] Excerpt from the article: Portland police officers assisted with paperwork and processing the guns turned in to the foundation. Central Precinct Sgt. Tim Sessions said the police did not have a problem with the buyers on the sidewalk. "They have a right to buy guns," Sessions said. "That's in the Constitution. So that doesn't bother me a bit." Sessions dismissed the possibility that the sidewalk buyers would then sell to "undesirables. That's not the case. These people know what they're doing, They know the laws. They know they'd lose that right if they did sell to the undesirables." Equally unlikely, said Sessions, who assisted the foundation with its guns buyback for nine years, is the notion that gang members would be among those turning in guns. "They really would like to see the gangs turn in the guns," Sessions said. "And I tell them, 'Keep wishing that.' But it's not going to happen." Gang members, first of all, want to hold onto their guns because "a gun means power. And two, they see us, the police, and they say 'We don't want to be caught with a gun.'" [/QUOTE]

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