David Spade

[jbirds1210]

David Spade donates 100K to purchase patrol rifles for the Phoenix Police Department. Pretty neat stuff.

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Jason

[flintknapper]

Excellent!

I am sure the dept. will be better off for it...and it is a wonderful gesture on Spade's part.

Hat off to you David Spade.

[atxgun]

I reposted this on another internet forum and found one of the responses amusing

Where the hell did David Spade get $100,000?

But in all seriousness, kudos to Spade.

[Skipper5]

What a great gesture of good citizenery.

[nitrogen]

Isn't that technically a straw purchase?

[HKUSP45C]

No, Nitrogen, it isn't even a "pretend technically" straw purchase.

A straw purchase is not defined as one person buying a gun for another person. That is perfectly legal (federally, local laws may differ) in just about every circumstance.

A straw purchase occurs when a person buys a gun for someone whom they know is denied possession or purchase by law. I doubt anyone on the Phoenix Police Department fits that description.

Further, he donated money to the department to purchase equipment, he didn't go out and buy 50 AR-15 and then distribute them personally to the officers, though doing so would also have been perfectly legal.

[WillieD]

That is awesome to hear. It is good to see that some celebrities support this kind of cause.

[DoubleJ]

The one-time Phoenix resident donated $100,000 so that the department can buy approximately 50 AR-15 rifles.

uh, what kind of crap deal did they get that AR's cost $2000 a piece???? you know they ain't comin' with flashlights and red dots!

[agbullet2k1]

The one-time Phoenix resident donated $100,000 so that the department can buy approximately 50 AR-15 rifles.

uh, what kind of crap deal did they get that AR's cost $2000 a piece???? you know they ain't comin' with flashlights and red dots!

They're on the aisle next to the $200 hammers.

[Liberty]

The one-time Phoenix resident donated $100,000 so that the department can buy approximately 50 AR-15 rifles.

uh, what kind of crap deal did they get that AR's cost $2000 a piece???? you know they ain't comin' with flashlights and red dots!

There will be ammo, and cases or mounts for the patrol units. maybe some optics. spare parts for the armory. A lot more goes to outfitting a rifle in a major Police Dept. than just the cost of the rifle. Sometimes even training costs gets put into the budget for a purchase like this.

[WarHawk-AVG]

$100 grand for him is like you giving a $20 to a meter maid to watch your car

Good gesture..cool of a Hollywierd actor to step up and assist the police..but far cry from curtailing the anti gun agenda of Hollywierd

[Captain Matt]

They're on the aisle next to the $200 hammers.

It's not a $200 hammer. It's a $200 tax.

[kitty]

I am actually on another message board talking to people who don't think he should have done this. They honestly do not think the police should need AR's, and this is a conservative board. Unbelievable.

[flintknapper]

I am actually on another message board talking to people who don't think he should have done this. They honestly do not think the police should need AR's, and this is a conservative board. Unbelievable.

Hi Kitty,

Most of us here don't think the police "SHOULD need AR's" either. But as the complexion of crimes has changed, so have tactics and weapons for LEO.

"Should" they "need" high powered weaponry? Not in the society we lived in 30 yrs.> ago, but these are not those times (unfortunately).

I would wager...if you asked the average patrolman if he/she is happy about needing increasingly powerful/tactical weaponry...they would say no. Everyone would love to go back to the days where police mostly wrote speeding tickets, cleared the way for parades and funerals, and occasionally ran into a bonified bad guy. Times have changed, and not for the better.

[The Annoyed Man]

You mean like Barney Fife - with an unloaded .38 Spcl revolver and a single boolit in his shirt pocket?