Gun Buybacks are Pointless

[RicInOR]

Shock Study: Voluntary Gun Buybacks Are Pointless

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[Capn Jack]

Yeah, but it makes the libs feel good and all it costs
them is our money...

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

If they paid x3 the market value for firearms and mags.. it would work.. a $50 gift card to amazon just doesnt cut it. Shoot, if they traded weed for firearms in crime ridden cities all sorts of folks would come out of the woodwork.. luckily these anti gun folks are cheap as hell and immensely ignorant not only to market value but human nature.

 

[Capn Jack]

The sad thing about those, "Buy Backs" is the little old lady who brings in her dead husband's WWII souvenirs for melting into scrap.

 

[CountryGent]

Not quite as stupid as "gun free zones", but pretty damn close.

 

[Kruel J]

I've always wondered how they define it as a "buy back" when I didn't buy it from them in the first place.

 

[CountryGent]

I've always wondered how they define it as a "buy back" when I didn't buy it from them in the first place.

That's always annoyed me. It suggests all arms belong to .gov and they are buying them back from the serfs.

 

[Xaevian]

If they called it a buyoff, Iran would want in.

 

[Jason999]

They're not completely useless, they give us the excuse to build a pipe shotgun!

Then the joy of taking money, or a gift card..., from their program.

 

[GrayGoose]

Are they going to fill out a 4473 and wait 2 weeks for their BGC to clear for each 'buyback'?

 

[Soli]

From the comments sums it up:

RailRoad22 11 hours ago

I happily will let the Government buy back any gun I ever bought from the Government.

 

[Ura-Ki]

They Cannot buy back what I didn't purchase from them, nor will I accept their cash offer of what they "Think" my stuff might be worth! Nope, sorry, not sorry, but they don't get to set the price on my property, PERIOD, HARD STOP!
Some one wants to offer me a couple million dollars worth of gold, we might talk, till then, NOPE!

 

[Ruger Rich]

What is really being bought is votes.

 

[Dinglenutz]

For what it's worth, the government is welcome to buy back every single gun they ever sold to me.

 

[Xaevian]

What's even funnier is not only did they never sell it to you, they will comp you for it WITH YOUR OWN MONEY.

 

[SFischer22]

If they paid x3 the market value for firearms and mags.. it would work.. a $50 gift card to amazon just doesnt cut it. Shoot, if they traded weed for firearms in crime ridden cities all sorts of folks would come out of the woodwork.. luckily these anti gun folks are cheap as hell and immensely ignorant not only to market value but human nature.

How much weed we talkin' about?

 

[raftman]

If they paid x3 the market value for firearms and mags.. it would work.. a $50 gift card to amazon just doesnt cut it. Shoot, if they traded weed for firearms in crime ridden cities all sorts of folks would come out of the woodwork.. luckily these anti gun folks are cheap as hell and immensely ignorant not only to market value but human nature.

From what I'd read, even if they could offer fair market value or more, the outcome wouldn't really be much different. To a criminal, even a ratty jam-o-matic Raven .25 acp pays for itself many times over. Even if one could be offered $200 for it (i.e. well over market), between all the convenience stores they could hold up, drug dealers they could rip off, etc... the gun ends up being worth more to them.

 

[P7M13]

It's not pointless if there's a bayonet still attached.

If they called it a buyoff, Iran would want in.

As well as "4473 Lies" Hunter and Creepy Joe.

 

[ZA_Survivalist]

How much weed we talkin' about?

Im thinking the comical zip-lock gallon freezer bags full of ganj would entice many to turn in the cheap pistols often used in petty street crimes.

 

[jbett98]

Some of the best deals I ever got buying a gun was at a couple of these events. It was a madhouse at the SE 182nd Portland buyback years ago.