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Title: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on December 13, 2011, 12:56:50 PM
What are your thoughts about gun buybacks (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program)?  For them, against them?  Do they do any good?  Do they do any harm?  Thoughts on buyback money coming from private sources versus public tax dollars?


Deleware cops (http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20111213/NEWS/112130329/State-police-Gun-buyback-s-aim-goes-beyond-disarming-criminals) make no bones about it:  They don't expect crime guns to be turned in.  "We're not naive in thinking crime weapons are going be turned in," said Wilmington Police Chief Michael Szczerba. "There will be very few crime guns turned in, if any at all."  Instead, they say that paying people up to $200 is simply to get guns out of circulation that might, sometime in the future be stolen, used in a crime or used during a domestic dispute. 

The Delaware program, widely promoted by local clergy, law enforcement and even the governor, offers $100 for hunting rifles and shotguns, $150 for handguns and $200 for so-called "assault rifles," payable in the form of a pre-paid debit card.  They are also accepting ammunition, but will not pay for it. 

An article out of Florida (http://www.newstalkflorida.com/police-collect-1000-guns-at-gun-buyback-event/) describes a recent gun buyback that netted over 1000 guns, each of which was turned in ("no questions asked") in exchange for $50.  The buyback was a part of Tampa Police Department’s “Save our sons, turn in your guns” event.


Discuss your thoughts about gun buyback programs in this thread.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: masfonos on December 13, 2011, 06:44:26 PM
Buybacks are total bunk. 

The only thing it does is give criminals an easy way to ditch their crime guns (you don't get paid $200 for chucking it in the river, after all), gives other criminals a reason to steal any guns they see when they're committing their crimes, gives broke angry-at-their-parents kids a reason to trade daddy's gun for Xbox money and convinces old widows to send their hubby's war relics to the incinerator.

Next to no good comes from these programs.  Just more useless fear mongering by antis.  "Guns are so horrible that we'll pay you $200 a pop to get them off the street"



They always say "no questions asked."  I wonder if ATF ever sets up camp at these things and grabs up the people bringing in unregistered machine guns, SBRs, AOWs, etc.  They take such elaborate steps to rig guns to fire more than once per trigger pull (Olaffson) or entrap somebody to chop off a shotgun barrel (Weaver) so they can send them to prison or raid their house.  Seems like a buyback would be like shooting fish in a barrel.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on December 19, 2011, 10:47:54 AM
Successful gun buyback in Brooklyn (http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20111219-6.html)
Empire State News


“In just the first two hours, over 70 handguns were relinquished to authorities. It is essential to have such events to bolster safer streets in our communities. By removing as many guns from our streets as possible through this Gun Buy Back Program, we are taking a step in the right direction,” said Senator Martin Malave Dilan (D-Bushwick).
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Each year the buyback program offers individuals the opportunity to turn in any type of gun for cash.  Those turning in handguns in operable condition received a $200 bankcard, while operable rifles or shotguns received a $20 bankcard. By the conclusion of yesterday's event, 180 guns were collected. The weapons will be destroyed.
(read entire story here (http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20111219-6.html))
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: ThatGuy762x51 on December 19, 2011, 11:01:39 AM
Buybacks are total bunk. 

The only thing it does is give criminals an easy way to ditch their crime guns (you don't get paid $200 for chucking it in the river, after all), gives other criminals a reason to steal any guns they see when they're committing their crimes, gives broke angry-at-their-parents kids a reason to trade daddy's gun for Xbox money and convinces old widows to send their hubby's war relics to the incinerator.

Next to no good comes from these programs.  Just more useless fear mongering by antis.  "Guns are so horrible that we'll pay you $200 a pop to get them off the street"


this post hits the nail on the head.  what do these things accomplish?  bad guys use a gun until they're done with it and then get to have it professionally disposed of?  good guys trade their safety for a 200 dollar gift card?  bad guys get an incentive to steal something guns they might not have otherwise?  in some places the gun owner can get charged with a crime for not reporting their gun stolen within a certain time like a day or something.  giving bad guys an incentive to steal guns is a lose-lose-lose: more theft, guns in bad guys hands, potential problems for gun owner, an extra wad of cash in bad guy's pocket.

not to mention that they admit that most guns aren't crime guns and probably wouldn't ever be used in crimes.  they're just guns that they want to get off the street that arent and probably wouldn't ever hurt anyone or anything.  think what this does to the used gun market - it's like the cash for clunkers only for guns.  not that the people in charge of these things care about taking perfectly good working condition guns off the street or destroying C&R pieces of history.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Hill_William on December 25, 2011, 09:21:37 PM
I have never seen a guy buyback around here.  why not hang out nearby and out bid the buyback price by a little on the nicer guns?   ;D
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on December 29, 2011, 11:47:59 AM
Camden collects 57 guns in exchange for grocery vouchers (http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-28/news/30565520_1_buyback-program-guns-camden)
December 28, 2011
By Darran Simon, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER

Organizers doled out $5,700 worth of Pathmark gift cards - a $100 gift card for each weapon - in the first city-sponsored gun buyback program since 1993, a city spokesman said. Pathmark is the only major grocery store in the city.
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"We want to get as many guns off the street as possible," Mayor Dana L. Redd said Wednesday during a visit to Higher Ground Temple Church of God in Christ, one of five church drop-off locations. "We want to make Camden a safer city. . . . We need the residents' participation."
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Among the weapons turned in were a sniper rifle with scope, sawed-off shotguns, .38-caliber handguns, .22-caliber revolvers, and a .40-caliber semiautomatic. Most were operable; a handful were old and rusty, though officials couldn't immediately tell how old.
(READ MORE (http://articles.philly.com/2011-12-28/news/30565520_1_buyback-program-guns-camden))
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Ryan_Random on December 29, 2011, 11:23:56 PM
Successful gun buyback in Brooklyn (http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20111219-6.html)
Empire State News


“In just the first two hours, over 70 handguns were relinquished to authorities. It is essential to have such events to bolster safer streets in our communities. By removing as many guns from our streets as possible through this Gun Buy Back Program, we are taking a step in the right direction,” said Senator Martin Malave Dilan (D-Bushwick).
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Each year the buyback program offers individuals the opportunity to turn in any type of gun for cash.  Those turning in handguns in operable condition received a $200 bankcard, while operable rifles or shotguns received a $20 bankcard. By the conclusion of yesterday's event, 180 guns were collected. The weapons will be destroyed.
(read entire story here (http://www.empirestatenews.net/News/20111219-6.html))

The weapons will be destroyed? This is gunocide. Where is the outrage?
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: ChampKind on January 04, 2012, 10:42:06 AM
It is a crying shame, right?  It reminds me of this picture:

(http://www.michigansnewsandviews.com/Australian%20guns.jpg)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: AmericanIcon on June 08, 2012, 01:49:53 AM
Buyback?  How can you buy something you never owned 'back', using other people's money?

Aside from the obvious fact that it's just another bastardization of the language (like 'assault weapon' - more on that later - or 'n*gg*rtown Saturday night special - yeah, that's the original terminology), it's nothing more than a 'feel-good' dog and pony show hatched by politicians who want to show the feebs they misrepresent that they're 'doing something'.  If they wanted to 'do' something constructive, they'd find a way to segregate violent criminals from the rest of society - oh, wait...aren't those things called 'prisons' supposed to be used for that? - and have them joined by judges and parole boards who toss them back among us with little or no time in 'country clubs', where they learn to be better criminals.  Of course, that might also mean more cops have to do real police work, rather than sitting by the roadside with radar guns, harassing people for littering (that should be up to us) or jaywalking, or doing union organizing on our dime.

That said, back to the topic at hand:  Part of the 'deal' in a so-called 'buyback' is 'no questions asked' - as mentioned, you have a 'hot piece', what better way to dispose of it?  You have a rusted-out frame you found the last time there was actually water in the San Pedro?  Not worth $5 as scrap, but they'll buy it 'back' for a healthy multiple of that.  The next time one is announced, denounce it for the sham it is.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: masfonos on June 13, 2012, 09:14:32 PM
We know they're bogus; we know they demonize guns; we know they don't make any sense; we know they're a waste of money and a waste of (usually) perfectly good guns.  What can we do, though?  I mean from a pro-gun standpoint. 


Show up at the buyback and try to educate someone?  Who?  The thug trying to get some money out of a stolen and/or crime-used gun?  The granny who can get a little extra money for meds from her late hubby's war relics?  The soccer mom who wants that "icky dangerous" gun out from under the same roof as her kid?  If they already packed it up and are in line to get the money, what would you say to them to change their mind?


Write letters to someone and give them facts?  Cops?  City officials?  "Parents against guns?"  Politicians spending other people's money buy anonymous guns?  If they're putting on a gun "buy back" then they're probably either close minded enough, under enough political pressure or have enough of their own agenda that they're going to put it on one way or the other.  Giving them facts, common sense, etc isn't going to change their minds.  It will likely just get you the same tired old rhetoric from them that they always give - lies about how this type of thing reduces crime, keeps so-and-so safe, etc.


Try to get museums or historical organizations on board to at least save valuable artifacts like war bring-backs?  Think there's any chance of anyone in charge letting a transfer like that go through, no matter how noble the cause?


I'm not just ranting, either.  I am really asking what we can do.  It seems like someone ought to be educated somewhere about this.  Educate enough and maybe enough people might see how ridiculous these things are </pipedream>
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on June 18, 2012, 09:58:12 PM
Gun "Buy Back" Programs Continue, Despite Being Ineffective
June 18, 2012
GunLinkBlog (http://blog.gunlink.info/2012/06/18/gun-buy-back-programs-continue-despite-being-ineffective/)

Plenty of politicians and anti-gunners love gun turn-ins, often incorrectly called “buy backs.”  (As one GunLink Forum user says, “How can you buy something you never owned ‘back’, using other people’s money?”)  Misnomer or otherwise, the facts point to these programs being largely ineffective wastes of money, often at the expense of taxpayers.

For example, a recent Chicago Tribune OpEd  states that six such events conducted over the past six years have yielded over 23,000 weapons turned in.  One highly touted event alone claimed to remove over 4,000 weapons from the streets, (despite nearly all of them not being “on the streets” in the first place and nearly 700 being fakes or replicas anyway).  For some, this makes little difference.  As New Haven, Connecticuit, Assistant Police Chief Tobin Hensgen says READ MORE... (http://blog.gunlink.info/2012/06/18/gun-buy-back-programs-continue-despite-being-ineffective/)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on June 18, 2012, 09:59:07 PM
Check out the thread about a Toy Gun Buy Back in NY (http://gunlink.info/forums/index.php?topic=482)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on June 19, 2012, 07:48:41 AM
From this perspective only, I like them. A local organization (GSL) collects unuseable guns (real junk) turns them in, then takes the money and donates it to local NRA kids safety camp. In my mind that is the only thing they are good for.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Sluggo on June 20, 2012, 02:51:36 PM
From this perspective only, I like them. A local organization (GSL) collects unuseable guns (real junk) turns them in, then takes the money and donates it to local NRA kids safety camp. In my mind that is the only thing they are good for.

What is GSL?  I like that they roll the reward back into something like the Eddie Eagle program.  I pretty much completely disagree with buy back programs, but something like that I might get behind.

To answer the poster above you, maybe this is something that we can organize to make these programs somewhat useful.  But at what point does it become something where you would need an FFL because you are taking in the guns that aren't really for yourself with the intention of getting rid of them?
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on June 21, 2012, 06:29:54 AM
GSL is Guns Save Life. I would give you a link to the web but they are currently updating their web page. Local organization in central Illinois. Chicago's buy back is, no questions asked. They have several collection points. My understanding is they spread out the take so it isn't all at one. They donate to the NRA Shooting Sports Camp. A locally run kids camp. Longest running in the nation I believe, at Bloomington, IL. It does turn a negative into a positive.  ::)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on June 24, 2012, 07:08:31 PM
Got those 'killers' off the streets. What can you tell from the picture?
http://www.suntimes.com/news/crime/13370035-418/gunowners-flock-to-turn-in-weapons-at-city-buy-back-program.html
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on July 02, 2012, 07:26:20 AM
Pro-Gun Group Turns Tables on City

http://www.cltv.com/news/wgntv-progun-group-turns-table-on-city-20120701,0,3962180.story

http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/01/12510938-chicago-gun-buyback-unknowingly-raises-money-for-nra-kids-gun-camp?lite

Best known as GSL: http://www.gunssavelife.com/

Meeting 2nd Tuesday of the month, come check it out.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on September 17, 2012, 10:42:39 AM
85 Weapons Collected in NY "Buy Back" (http://www.myfoxny.com/story/19554439/85-weapons-collected-in-brooklyn-gun-buyback)

Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap For a Tidy Profit

A recent gun roundup in NY collected 40 revolvers, 28 semi-automatic handguns, nine rifles two shotguns and what the story calls an "assault rifle" but, in all likelihood, is not.  Given the no-questions-asked policy and the bounty of $200 for handguns and $20 for rifles and shotguns, the program provides the perfect opportunity for criminals to make some quick cash by ditching stolen firearms or other crime-used guns.

Our math might be a little rusty, but the numbers in the story don't quite add up to the numbers in the headline, but that's neither here nor there.  Let's say that 5 of the weapons weren't eligible for the cash prize.  The prize money doled out for the 68 handguns would be $13,600 and the 12 long guns would have netted another $240.  Nearly $14,000 doled out in this particular charade and we have yet to see a single study that says these programs are anything but useless.

Way to go, Brooklyn.


Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on September 17, 2012, 06:49:57 PM
We thought that this article was worth cross-posting here:

Examiner-Gun buy backs and using the enemies own resources (http://gunlink.info/forums/index.php?topic=749)
...While for the most part it would seem that such fuzzy, feel-good efforts are fairly harmless to gun rights (not to mention harmless to violent criminals' plans), and indeed represent a waste of the other side's funds that could otherwise finance more effective attacks on gun ownership, there could be more to such events than meets the eye...




Thanks, jonbouy00
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on October 07, 2012, 04:24:41 PM
New website: http://www.gunssavelife.com
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: jonbouy00 on December 01, 2012, 07:38:06 PM
The Gun Buyback Conspiracy/Bounty Hunters Are After Your Guns via AmericanSurvivor.org

Actually, I don’t believe in “conspiracies” because the world and life is just too complex and unpredictable for any complex “plan” to workout as the conspirators intended.  I do believe in things working out in intended or unintended ways that look like conspiracies.  The case in point here is the so-called gun buy back programs.  The advertised intent of these programs is to get “guns off the streets”.   This program is a result of what I call “the do something syndrome”.  This syndrome takes effect when politicians and community activists are beset by a problem that they cannot actually fix or to which a true solution would be politically incorrect.  They then enact laws and initiate programs that look good but have no actual effect on the problem.  In this case; marches, demonstrations at gun shops and gun by backs that have had zero effect on the murder rates.  The true effect of gun buy back may be an intended conspiracy or just an unintended result of stupid people.

The rest of the story at: http://www.americansurvivor.org/component/content/article/36/115
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on December 15, 2012, 01:06:49 PM
Brooklyn churches invite gun owners to trade in weapons for $200 bank cards (http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn_churches_invite_gun_owners_3FOWqAMSxfyDWWSx0HjeIM)
NY Post

A day after 26 people were shot to death in a Connecticut school, two New York churches have invited gun owners to hand in their weapons — no questions asked.

Two Brooklyn pastors opened their churches Saturday to the city's Gun Buyback program. Anyone can trade in their weapon for a $200 bank card. The transactions are anonymous.
... Read more at link above.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on May 21, 2013, 06:56:45 PM
Wonder how they define "success"



Cumberland Co. to host gun buyback (http://www.nbc40.net/story/22309779/cumberland-co-to-host-gun-buyback)

Following the success of several gun buybacks in the state, including one in Atlantic County this March, officials are announcing that Cumberland County will host a gun buyback.
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The buybacks are part of a statewide effort to reduce gun violence by taking deadly firearms out of circulation.
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turn in as many as three firearms of any type "no questions asked" and receive up to $250 per weapon
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: ThatGuy762x51 on June 06, 2013, 10:25:18 PM
I am glad to see that they are out there keeping us safe.  I wonder if there are any stats on how many guns they buy that are used in crimes or stolen and how many are just somebody that doesn't want it any more.  It would also be interesting to see stats on what they pay vs the value of the guns.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LivingDeadGirl on June 11, 2013, 10:19:05 PM
Out of curiousity, how did buybacks get started and when/where was the first one?
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: crsmithart on June 19, 2013, 08:06:29 AM
I have never seen a gun buyback around here.  Why not hang out nearby and out bid the buyback price by a little on the nicer guns?   ;D

Not sure where Hill_William is from, but you don't see these in Texas, either ... I would love the opportunity to stand outside and pick up a few bargains ... In contrast, Gov. Perry just signed a bill into law in Texas that allows Law Enforcement agencies to sell confiscated guns to FFL holders and put the profits back into their agency
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Hill_William on June 19, 2013, 09:20:37 AM
We actually had one here in my area and there was one about 2 hours away from me.  They put both of them on the news and made a big deal about both of them, they had a reporter there ALL DAY checking in every so often.  I dont know what they thought would be worth reporting on but every time it was just like "look at these people lined up.  hey bubba, why are you trading in that evil gun?"  At least I think it was some group that put it on and not paid for with taxes.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Lebowski on July 01, 2013, 08:57:49 PM
I don't know how they get away with those things.  Is everyone (anyone) working at them subject to a BG check? Do they have a dealer license?  Do they run the guns to see if they're stolen so they can be returned to the owner?  There isn't one ounce of good that comes from these things.

The libtards running the show act like guns carry some kind of disease and they're offering a cure by taking them off your hands.
Title: New Colorado Gun Laws Scuttle Gun Buy Back
Post by: GunLink on July 24, 2013, 02:14:10 PM
Organizers cancel Boulder gun buyback at request of sheriff
Strict new gun law would make event logistically problematic (http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_23717880/organizers-cancel-boulder-gun-buyback-at-request-sheriff)
Brittany Anas
07/24/2013
A stricter law that went into effect July 1 requires buyers to go to a licensed firearms dealer and undergo a background check. The InstaCheck systems used in the checks are not mobile, which means they couldn't be used at the sheriff's compound where the buyback was planned.
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Essentially, for the event to work, Pelle said the group would have to find a licensed firearms dealer to host the event and then pay the dealer per transaction.
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"Sheriff Pelle has stood strong for this event, has done tremendous work to make it happen and he is as disappointed as we are."
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The idea was to collect guns and then immediately hand them over to the Sheriff's Office for destruction. Some of the remnants of the destroyed firearms would then be passed along to Boulder-area metalworking artist Jessica Adams to use for a sculpture aimed at creating gun violence awareness...
(continue reading (http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_23717880/organizers-cancel-boulder-gun-buyback-at-request-sheriff))



Gun buyback canceled over new Colorado gun laws
10:13 AM, Jul 24, 2013
AP
http://www.9news.com/news/article/346749/188/Gun-buyback-canceled-over-new-Colorado-gun-laws



Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: GunLink on February 12, 2014, 06:37:37 PM
Graham: Gun buyback lacks aim (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/02/graham_gun_buyback_lacks_aim)
2/12/2014
Michael Graham


Do you want to solve problems, or do you want to be a Boston liberal?

Mayor Marty Walsh has made his choice: “Liberal Uber Alles.”

And so we get another whack at the insane “gun buyback program” in response to the shooting death of a 9-year-old in Mattapan, allegedly at the hands of his apparently violent, previously-arrested 14-year-old brother.

Why do I say insane? Because one definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different result.” (No, Einstein didn’t say this as far as we know, but he should have.)

Here’s the National Academy of Sciences on gun buyback programs, circa 2004: “[T]he theory underlying gun buybacks is badly flawed and the empirical evidence demonstrates the ineffectiveness of these programs.”

Here is my favorite gun buyback story: When Oakland tried it in 2008
continue reading... (http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/opinion/op_ed/2014/02/graham_gun_buyback_lacks_aim)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: PorkyPascal on January 29, 2015, 07:13:48 PM
(http://i58.tinypic.com/2di0rxx.jpg)
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LivingDeadGirl on February 02, 2015, 08:32:29 PM
Be sure to check out the PopVox thread. There's a piece of legislation proposed for gun buybacks
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: masfonos on February 03, 2015, 07:00:59 PM
https://popvox.com/bills/us/114/hr307


6% of POPVOX users are blubbering idiots.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LivingDeadGirl on February 03, 2015, 11:26:11 PM
what percentage of congress is blubbering idiots?
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Lebowski on August 17, 2015, 04:56:43 PM
good job keeping the streets safe with that buyback!

Boston’s Prided Gun Buyback Program Takes One Whole Entire Gun Off The Street This Year (http://defendandcarry.com/bostons-prided-gun-buyback-program-takes-one-whole-entire-gun-off-the-street-this-year/)



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The Walsh administration’s much-touted gun buyback program has taken in just one firearm so far this year — a stunning drop from the more than 400 that came in last year, putting police woefully behind last year’s pace in the overall number of guns they’re removing from the street, a Herald review found

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The buyback program started last year after a surge of violence in Boston, and violence continues this year mostly with illegal gun owners. Buyback programs have considerable criticism with people arguing that criminals would rather keep their guns and the intimidation, fear, and street cred they get to push on others than the 100$-200$ they would get from turning them in.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: masfonos on August 19, 2015, 07:27:07 PM
Knocked it right out of the park with that one.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: DrFootball on August 21, 2015, 03:44:25 PM
I guess Chicago and Detroit couldn't bother to tell Boston that those buy backs don't work.......
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LoneStarTx on December 26, 2015, 11:32:56 PM
Gun buybacks.....huh the police never owned them how could they buy back?
 
If gun buybacks work to get guns of the street why don't they buyback heroin, meth and cocaine?

Just like all the other crime fighting gun laws they are all not serious about actually arresting criminals and reducing crime.
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LivingDeadGirl on December 30, 2015, 09:06:45 PM
That's an excellent question. They did a "no questions asked" drug drop off in my area last month...there hasn't been anything in the news about how successful it was. At least, nothing I saw or heard.

maybe because guns aren't illegal and drugs are?  or we choose to own guns and addicts "cant" so there's a better possibility we would spend the money on something other than guns vs an addict spending the money on something other than more drugs?
Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: LivingDeadGirl on June 19, 2016, 06:09:23 PM
NYPD has just completed a gun buyback in Harlem, collected 61 guns. People were given a $200 prepaid bank card for operable handguns and assault rifles and $25 for rifles, shotguns and BB guns. If you look at the picture at the top of the article, it appears there is a Hi-Point handgun, which sell for ~$170 and next to it looks a like Jennings or Lorcin, which sell for ~$80.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nypd-collects-61-guns-harlem-buyback-article-1.2679113

They also did two more earlier in the year.
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/manhattan/nypd-purchases-81-guns-harlem-gun-buyback-article
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/queens/nypd-buys-89-guns-queens-buyback-event-article-1.2604118-1.2628902



Title: Re: Gun Buybacks
Post by: Free-Fall on June 20, 2016, 09:48:46 AM
If the NYPD didn't want the guns on the street then they shouldn't have put them there in the first place then they wouldn't have to buy them BACK.  Since if they're buying them BACK then that means that they were theirs to begin with right?  Where does they money come from and where do the guns go?  I wonder how hard they try to get them back to the owners if they come up stolen if they even check to see if they're stolen.