Opinions on Gun Buy-Back Programs ??

[Magnum]

Well, It seems that the opinions I see so far are on line with my thoughts going into this subject. I think that these programs that run about twice a year in the Akron, OH area are a waste of time because they do nothing to stop the criminals from committing crimes, and may actually ADD to crimes because some of these guns are stolen!! I hope the stolen ones are being returned to their rightful owners, but I have reason to doubt that is the case......I have read that if you go to this sort of program, there are "no questions asked" and you just get your gift card or whatever with no names given or anything, so whats to stop the criminal from trading in a hot gun??  I think this sort of program just feeds the Anti's crazy idea that if no one had any guns, and the gov't "bought-back" all of them, then the world would be a safe place.
And yes, it actually bothered me to think about what COULD be going to be destroyed.......Maybe some really fine firearms or a lot of junk, you just never know.

[MikeBjerum]

So how do you "buy-back" something the city never owned in the first place?

My thoughts exactly!  I have never seen a gun dealer participating in this. 

I always hear that these programs are a huge success because of all the guns that are off the streets (has anyone here ever seen a gun just lying on the street?).  However, the headline in the paper the next day is that someone has been shot.  What do they call a success anyway?  Oh that's right ... They got an old rusted, busted piece of shit for the price of a debit card that will be spend on crack ... Job well done!

[fullautovalmet76]

Great place to get rid of busted old worthless crap that you can't even sell for parts. otherwise a waste of time and money that has been proven ,even to the HUD bureaucrats, to NEVER work. (That's why HUD defunded their buy back program years ago.)

Spot-On!

I participated in a buyback a few years ago and I will tell my story. Many years ago, I was very broke and very ignorant of quality firearms so I bought a Bryco 9mm for $94. This gun was so bad that I had to rack the slide several times to get it to fire once. When one looks up "POS" in the gun dictionary, this gun is recommended as a synonym. It was truly a gun that I should have given to my enemies.

The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, along with some "community organizers", sponsored a gun buy-up; $50 and no questions asked. When I arrived with the Bryco, there were many people there like me selling guns that did not work. I took the $50 dollars and never looked back. The media covered the event as if the streets of Jacksonville were safer because of this.

Since that time, the murder rate has gone up!

[runstowin]

4800 accidental shootings (not all deaths, mind you) divided by 250,000,000 million firearms (probably more than than that by now) x 100 = 0.00192%

Along that line:


   
   

Why Doctors Are 9,000 Times More Likely to Accidentally Kill You Than Gun Owners

 

A widely publicized report saying that as many as 98,000 people die each year in the United States from medical errors is conservative, and the number is probably much larger than that. The estimate by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) is low because it looked only at deaths of patients at hospitals. The Institute is a private, nonprofit organization that provides health policy advice under a congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences.

Janet M. Corrigan is the IOM's director of health care services. The Institute is a private, nonprofit organization that provides health policy advice under a congressional charter to the National Academy of Sciences. She told reporters at a Capitol Hill briefing May 8 that the study did not look at medical-error deaths at nursing homes, emergency rooms or in doctors' offices. The mortality estimates are low also because most of the information was based on medical record reviews. Medical errors are a problem that has been hidden from the public for far to long.

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2000/05/14/doctor-accidents.aspx