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Gun Owners, Activists Counter WV ‘Buyback’ by Shepherdstown Church
By Dave Workman
When the Presbyterian church in Shepherdstown, West Virginia staged a “gun buyback” event over the weekend at a local fire station, a group of Second Amendment activists organized by Chris Anders, chairman of the West Virginia Freedom Caucus and a state delegate representing the 97th District, countered with cash.The church group was offering gift cards–$50 for handguns, $100 for rifles and shotguns, and $200 for “certain semi-automatic rifles”—but the Anders group was offering cash. Anders, speaking to TGM via telephone Monday, said his group “saved several guns; gave them good homes.”
Anders had coordinated with the owner of DS Gunworks and local volunteers. He estimated about 40 people showed up to save guns from destruction. It apparently upset someone on the church group, because local law enforcement was called.
However, according to Lootpress, it was quickly determined that what the gun group was doing was perfectly legal in West Virginia.
In a prepared statement about the event, Anders explained, “While anti-gun activists were trading property for gift cards and cutting up firearms on site, we stood right beside them and offered something better… freedom and fair value…In West Virginia, we stand with the 2nd Amendment, and gun grabbers can take their antics elsewhere.”
He told TGM that “cutting up guns is not a West Virginia thing.”
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Nearly as much fun as cashing in on an empty olive-drab tube with scary yellow alpha-numerics printed on it.
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—JAMES MADISON
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First of all, how does one “buy back” what one never owned? And second, BZ to Anders, DS Gunworks and all of the volunteers who orchestrated the WV “Fuck You!” to the Presbyterian Hoplophobes.
A church that much under the thumb of the gun control cartel, is NOT a church that I want to be a member of.
I have to wonder, how many active members does that church have?
I used to be a member of the Presbyterian Church (PCUSA). I left that church…oh…20 some years ago now. It was already becoming a cesspit of leftist ideology even back then. Anti-gun policies of a PCUSA church don’t surprise me at all.
The catalyst for me was when “leadership” from the national organization started making the rounds of the more conservative congregations trying to convince us to support changing the book of order (the Presbyterian rule book) to allow openly gay people to hold positions of leadership including youth leaders.
It didn’t go well at our church but the national organization still won the fight and changed the book of order. Even though my church’s congregation was pretty much aligned with my beliefs, I couldn’t abide a portion of my tithes going to a national organization so at odds with Christian tenets, so I resigned my membership and left.
They hadn’t turned anti-gun yet at that point, but the writing was on the wall so to speak.
At it’s peak the PCUSA had over 4 million members. It’s been dropping steadily for decades and I believe is below a million now.
Back in the ’70’s a group of conservative PCUSA churches split off from the national organization and formed Presbyterian Church in America (PCA). It was tiny in comparison but unlike PCUSA, PCA has been steadily growing since its inception. If trends continue, within the next decade, PCA will be bigger than PCUSA.
BTW: There wasn’t a PCA church in my local area at the time so when I left PCUSA, I joined the Nazarene Church.
You want radical left try a Universalist Unitarian church…. Openly ghey trans rainbow 🌈 etc. bleh.
We belonged to what became a fairly liberal Presbyterian church… stopped going there in about 1970. Haven’t been in one since.
The Cumberland variation is a little more the “way things used to be”.
As a child, my family was Presbyterian. But as an adult, I watched that religion become more “progressive.” It has now become almost indistinguishable from the Universal Church. I guess that is why my last set of dogtags after Vietnam said “no preferance.”
The church that we used to go to had about 12-15 firearms in there every Sunday morning. I always had one of them and my wife had another one. The pastor was the chaplain in the unit that I was the S6 of, so he knew about mine and he was the one that told me about the others. His flock was fairly safe.
I always thought that all West Virginia residents were gun savvy and owned more guns than all the residents in Florida.
There is a liberal arts college located there, a sister in law went there in the mid-70s. OTOH, W Va is wild and wonderful and people hunt for table food. Deer are in abundance. Presbyterians have been on the wrong track for many decades but no worse than the Methodists. Episcopalians are still a step above Unitarian Universalists. And for the really special there is Scientology.
As child and teenager I was raised in the Southern Baptist tradition… everything was a fucking sin. Drink a beer, you’re going to Hell. Dance with a girl? Yep, going to Hell. Eat too much at Golden Corral, damn right you’re going to Hell, for gluttony. While that all seemed pretty harsh it was nothing compared with the Westboro Baptists!
David Koresh had congregation in Waco. The FBI and ATF killed them and burned their home to the ground.
“… the Southern Baptist tradition… everything was a fucking sin. Drink a beer, you’re going to Hell.”
Considering that Jesus Christ’s 1st miracle was changing water into wine, the SBC would’ve had a humongous stroke…
Semi off topic: Heritage Rough Rider:
I bought one several years ago for my BAG day gun. One thing to be aware of that’s a known issue and Heritage has done nothing to fix it that I’m aware of:
The mainspring that comes on the gun from the factory is too weak. I thought mine was just faulty as I started having light strikes constantly. I started doing a little research and found out that when you order a replacement mainspring from Heritage, it isn’t the same as the one that comes on the gun from the factory. It’s thicker and stronger. In fact, you have to order a new pin because the metal of the new spring is so much thicker and the OD has to stay the same, the ID of the loop the pin goes through is smaller than the original and the original pin won’t fit.
They don’t bother to tell you that on the website so you just have to know already, or find out the hard way.
As far as I know Heritage has never acknowledged this issue, they just keep selling guns with weak mainsprings and then selling the stronger replacement on their website.
The spring and pin aren’t expensive, and the gun’s original price is so low (I’ve recently seen them for about $90), it’s still probably the least expensive option in SA .22 revolvers; and other than that one issue, mine’s been great; just be aware of the issue and be prepared for it…or just skip it and buy a Ruger Wrangler for another $50 or $75.
They’d probably replace it for free within the one year warranty period…mine was out of warranty before I realized the problem…but the shipping costs would be way more than just buying a new spring and pin and replacing them yourself.
I owned one decades ago and it was garbage then too. At 20′ the sights were 5′ off target. It was new but there were all kind of issues with the rifling at the muzzle. It did go bang 95% of the time, which is ok for rimfire I guess. I traded it in for a Mark IV a while back and that thing has been great.
For $100 or so you have to manage expectations.
I have always considered them a border-line junk gun. One is better off buying a Uberti .22 SAA. I have one that only cost about $250 thirty years ago. It came with the .22 mag extra cylinder, and it shoots dead on with an adjustable rear sight. With .22 snake shot, it is deadly on rats. Gotta get within ten to fifteen feet, though.
I recall reading an article about some guy with a 3D printer that made up a bunch of plastic shaped into guns and took them to the local “gun buy back”, cleaning them out with non functioning plastic replicas to “melt down”.
I’d read that too.
Gave me both a belly laugh, and an excellent case of schadenfreude at all the money that the gun grabbers spent for…..nothing.
Now look at them yo-yos,
that’s the way you do it
You print your gun on the printer 3D
That ain’t workin’, that’s the way you do it
Money for nothing print your guns for free ….
He bankrupted them. I thought it was as funny as hell.
Whose idea was this anyway?
I’m sorry what?
Oh, ok got it. Just not sure which faith she is following. Probably whatever they followed in Sodom.
I can tell you she doesn’t look anything like her picture compared to the church videos:
https://shepherdstownpresbyterian.org/team-member/rev-gusti-linnea-newquist/
She is way more cat lady in her videos.
Former Coast Guard Reservist and former media mogul Ted Turner is having a busy day at the pearly gates offering his explanations.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ted-turner-dies-age-87-cnn/
Every so called “gun buyback” program I have seen or read about resulted in nothing but mostly junk guns worth next to nothing. I recall one story where the media was crowing about one where the program had purchased a dangerous “rocket launcher.” I was expecting maybe an RPG-7, but in the photo of the rocket launcher, I saw an expended (empty) M-72 LAW tube, a worthless piece of plastic and fiberglass that could never be fired again. Although, in the Viet of the Nam, about half the time they wouldn’t fire ever because they weren’t designed to function after constant exposure to that SE Asia rain, moisture, heat and humidity. But we always carried a three or four of them in each rifle company.