I've heard repeated several times today, a news report on KTLK / 1130 AM, (most recently @ 1900hrs) about the success of the gun buyback. According to the reporter, the highly successful event had to shut down early because they ran out of funds after 3 hours. According to the report, they doled out $250,000; that's right- a quarter mil, in 3 hours... (the strib is reporting 1/10 that amount...)
Using both hands and 10 toes, and assuming there were 2 sites, I calculate that to be approx $41, 667 per hour / $694 a minute/ $11.57 a second, non-stop @ at each location..
That's the equivalent of 833 ARs/ AKs at the advertised rate of $300 per, at the rate of one every 26 seconds.
Could that be true, or is this another example of the media doing what the media often does: read whatever they're handed with little or no critical examination?..
This stations's news has never impressed me with being current- even the weather reports are sometimes the day after, so not too much would truly surprise me...