Heh - hoist with his own petard

From The Volokh Conspiracy:

Group Turns in Broken Guns to �Gun Buyback� Program, Raises Money for NRA Youth Shooting Camp
The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The city collected 5,500 guns last Saturday in the annual buyback. The city gave out $100 MasterCard gift cards for each gun and $10 cards for BB guns and replicas.

Sixty of the guns and several BB guns were turned in by the Champaign-based Guns Save Life [yielding $6,240]�. Most of the money will go toward buying ammunition for an NRA youth camp in Bloomington. The rest will pay for four bolt-action rifles that will be given away to campers.

�This was rusty, non-firing junk that we turned in,� Boch said. �We are redirecting funds from people who would work against the private ownership of firearms to help introduce the next generation to shooting safely and responsibly.�

A police spokeswoman disapproved: �We host the gun turn-in event on an annual basis to encourage residents to turn in their guns so we can take guns off the street and it�s unfortunate that this group is abusing a program intended to increase the safety of our communities[.]� I should think that using the money for lawful training � including important safety training � is hard to describe as �abuse.� And if the police department�s objection is that it wanted to pay $100 for valuable working weapons that were worth more than $100, rather than for rusty junk that is worth less than $100, I think the department needs a bit of economics training.

This is exactly what I meant yesterday when I wrote about throwing the progressive's tactics back at them. Excellent hack of the system! Post title? Here. (scroll down)