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Originally Posted by Brando
These gun buybacks are predatory in nature. The idea is to disarm the public without knocking door-to-door "You have any firearms in the house?". As stated above, it really only "helps" the criminals who need to dispose of a murder weapon.
How does disarming you make you safer? If you've got a junk gun that's broken and not worth fixing, this may be a good idea. Otherwise, keep your working firearms and buy more bullets.
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I don't know about that. It's strictly voluntary and 99.9% of the guns turned in are barely workable and usually rusted heaps of junk. Obviously, no one who values their gun gives it up for $100 or basketball tix. My only problem with it is the part that lets criminals dispose of crime weapons and the politicians then claiming they've done something about gun violence.
When I went to the Phoenix gun buyback, I watched a cop car pull up with a back seat full of guns in plastic evidence bags. It was a sight to behold. I don't know that I buy the bit about their not checking those guns out. They probably don't check out the rusted Turkish Mauser. But if it's a Glock or a SIG or a Tec-9, yeah, I'm pretty sure they look into those. At the very least, such in-demand guns are likely to be stolen, if not crime weapons.