Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:02 AM
fescuerescue (4,166 posts)
How about a -real- buyback. Mandatory, say $10,000 per AR-15
Make it a carrot and stick.
$10,000 cash, tax free per weapon if you turn it in. If caught with it, 10 years in jail. While this would be expensive, this would be a MASSIVE economic boost and solve the gun problem at the same time. Those kinda of numbers - would get the gunners attention and cooperation (for the most part)
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fescuerescue | Feb 2018 | OP |
Hoyt | Feb 2018 | #1 | |
samir.g | Feb 2018 | #3 | |
EX500rider | Feb 2018 | #19 | |
fescuerescue | Feb 2018 | #8 | |
TeamPooka | Feb 2018 | #12 | |
TeamPooka | Feb 2018 | #11 | |
Girard442 | Feb 2018 | #2 | |
Wiseman32218 | Feb 2018 | #21 | |
GP6971 | Feb 2018 | #4 | |
chumpchange | Feb 2018 | #5 | |
PoindexterOglethorpe | Feb 2018 | #6 | |
fescuerescue | Feb 2018 | #14 | |
PoindexterOglethorpe | Feb 2018 | #16 | |
MichMan | Feb 2018 | #17 | |
fescuerescue | Feb 2018 | #20 | |
Phoenix61 | Feb 2018 | #7 | |
Retrotech | Feb 2018 | #9 | |
Canoe52 | Feb 2018 | #15 | |
EX500rider | Feb 2018 | #10 | |
fescuerescue | Feb 2018 | #13 | |
NickB79 | Feb 2018 | #18 |
Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:11 AM
Hoyt (54,770 posts)
1. Why? Gun-humpers invested in these rifles, and their investment goes bad. A big ZERO
and thought and prayers is all they deserve.
Seriously, I do get what you are saying. But why reward depravity? |
Response to Hoyt (Reply #1)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:14 AM
samir.g (826 posts)
3. This. Fuck them.
No reward for being murderous fools.
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Response to samir.g (Reply #3)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:13 PM
EX500rider (8,118 posts)
19. Just how many of the 80 million gun owners are "murderous fools"?
Less then car owners are "murderous DWI fools" I'd say.
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Response to Hoyt (Reply #1)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:22 AM
fescuerescue (4,166 posts)
8. It's not about reward. It's about practicality
From a constitutional standpoint, we probably have to pay something anyway.
It's about getting something passed that maybe we can't pass otherwise. Carrot and stick. |
Response to fescuerescue (Reply #8)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:34 AM
TeamPooka (21,007 posts)
12. When they "privatized" gold they paid people market value and confiscated what people tried to hide
from them.
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Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:13 AM
Girard442 (5,591 posts)
2. Make it illegal to transport them on any public property.
Have a short amnesty period where they could be transported to buy-back centers. After that, the only legal alternative would be to call law enforcement officers for a pickup. They can rust in your basement, but you can't sell them or take them to a firing range, a gun show, or for maintenance. Get caught with them in your car, you're screwed.
Not a perfect plan, but doable. |
Response to Girard442 (Reply #2)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 08:47 PM
Wiseman32218 (291 posts)
21. Guns are already illegal on school property, won't help this case at all.
I am waiting to see the rest of the profile on this deranged idiot and whether he purchased everything legally. Until then, I am at a loss for a plan to prevent these tragedies.
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Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:15 AM
GP6971 (23,211 posts)
4. Nice idea
but I don't think you'd get many takers from the serious gunners.
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Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:19 AM
chumpchange (48 posts)
5. Costly
I'd guess there are upwards of 10 million in civilian hands, and I assure you they are being actively bought every day now with the media drumbeat. So I can see two problems:
- Expen$ive! You are talking about $100 billion. Even for the bloated budgets we have these days that is a spicy meatball. - I suspect the mandatory part of that would be heavily litigated and it is likely anything mandatory would go down in flames. I'd also hazard a guess that compliance would be surprisingly low. Personally, the opportunity to turn a $400 firearm into 10 grand of tax free cash would have me leaping to do so. Heck, I'd go buy one of the things just to get the 10 grand. |
Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:31 AM
PoindexterOglethorpe (23,025 posts)
6. How much do they cost in the first place?
Unless it's at least $9,999, hell no! Why should they profit obscenely on a murder weapon?
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Response to PoindexterOglethorpe (Reply #6)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 02:10 AM
fescuerescue (4,166 posts)
14. The money isn't the point.
And it's temporary. It gets spent and its gone.
But the weapon is gone forever. |
Response to fescuerescue (Reply #14)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 02:59 AM
PoindexterOglethorpe (23,025 posts)
16. Unfortunately, the money is the point.
Hell, I'd buy up several of those, given what I've seen of the prices with a quick on-line check. Buy six or seven of them for under a thousand bucks apiece and sell for $10k? What a sweet deal.
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Response to fescuerescue (Reply #14)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:00 AM
MichMan (7,251 posts)
17. Are you going to personally buy them up and destroy them ?
Why wait for any official buyback plan?
You could personally buy them back for $10K each and melt them down. If the money isn't the point...... why not? |
Response to MichMan (Reply #17)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 07:38 PM
fescuerescue (4,166 posts)
20. Well I have a hard time finding a sitter for the kids
and my HOA is real strict on running a smelter in my backyard.
So that's why I rely on government to provide government services. |
Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:12 AM
Phoenix61 (13,736 posts)
7. How did Australia manage to unarm their citizens
As someone else posted, we don't have to reinvent the wheel. Just about everything we, as a country are struggling with, some other country has figured out. Imagine what we could be if we picked the best of those.
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Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:28 AM
Retrotech (38 posts)
9. Fuck those micro-cocked losers
Turn them in, $10,000 fine, and permanent felon status.
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Response to Retrotech (Reply #9)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 02:38 AM
Canoe52 (2,867 posts)
15. I assume you mean $10,000 fine if you dont turn them in? Totally agree!
And a felony charge also...hmmm, kinda kinky but I like where you’re going with this.
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Response to fescuerescue (Original post)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 01:32 AM
EX500rider (8,118 posts)
10. What good would that do?
There are literally hundreds of other models and makes of rifles that work exactly the same way as a AR-15.
Not a AR-15: ![]() ![]() Etc |
Response to EX500rider (Reply #10)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 02:09 AM
fescuerescue (4,166 posts)
13. Include those two
I'm not trying to get caught up in terminology. Save the definitions for another day.
We are talking about AR15, AK47 and similar weapons of that class. |
Response to fescuerescue (Reply #13)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 10:25 AM
NickB79 (17,172 posts)
18. Terminology is what screwed the 1994 AWB
And let people buy millions of AK and AR variants while in effect.
To this day, we have yet to come up with a definition of an assault rifle that either a) the gun makers can't circmvent legally, or b) doesn't inadvertently include millions of guns used for generations by hunters. |