Canadians Trade Guns for Cameras in Creative Anti-Violence Program

[SecularMotion]

In addition to universal healthcare, Mounties and Rush, Canada can now add swapping guns for cameras to their list of wholesome bragging rights.

The program to reduce gun violence by promoting photography is called “Pixels for Pistols” and it aims to take guns off the streets by issuing a free Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH8 point-and-shoot camera to anyone who turns in a working firearm to the Winnipeg Police Service. Since the start of the month-long program on November 1, the department has already collected several hundred weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

“We’re recovering firearms by the hour,” says Jason Michalyshen, the spokesman for Winnipeg Police Service.

While Winnipeg is not known to be a particularly violent city (an average of 30 homicides a year), Michalyshen says the department wanted to provide an incentive for people to get rid of guns they no longer wanted or needed. Too often, he says, un-used guns are robbed from homes and end up in the wrong hands.

http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2012/11/trading-guns-for-cameras/

[GreenStormCloud]

1. Good deal if the gun is cheap enough.

That camera sells for $133.39 on Amazon. One can buy old Ravens for less than that. I have an old gun that I would trade if they did that down here.

Unfortunately, Dallas had a gun buy-back a few years ago. $50 Kroger's gift card for any working firearm. They got in a lot of junk guns that weren't worth even $50 apiece.

[Eleanors38]

2. Rats. My H&R won't work anymore.nt

[Remmah2]

3. And what will they do with these cameras?

Extortion, blackmail, porn production?

Every inanimate object has the potential to be used for good or evil.

[Decoy of Fenris]

4. Just wanna say, I agree with this.

What people do with their produces is up to them, and if folks want cameras? More power to 'em.

[ileus]

5. I have a 15mp Fuji that I'd swap for something nice.

The cheapest pistol I'd agree to is a LCP or PF9.....maybe a P3AT.

[Atypical Liberal]

6. Not many guns worth that little

The Panasonic Lumix DMC-FH8 is worth about $150 tops.

While there are a few firearms that you can buy that cheaply, most modern handguns start at $500.