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Dial H For Hero

(2,971 posts)
Wed May 12, 2021, 09:16 AM May 2021

Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired?

https://www.nber.org/papers/w28763

Gun buyback programs (GBPs), which use public funds to purchase civilians' privately-owned firearms, aim to reduce gun violence. However, little is known about their effects on firearm-related crime or deaths. Using data from the National Incident Based Reporting System, we find no evidence that GBPs reduce gun crime.

Given our estimated null findings, with 95 percent confidence, we can rule out decreases in firearm-related crime of greater than 1.3 percent during the year following a buyback. Using data from the National Vital Statistics System, we also find no evidence that GBPs reduce suicides or homicides where a firearm was involved.

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Have U.S. Gun Buyback Programs Misfired? (Original Post) Dial H For Hero May 2021 OP
Unless other systems are in place YMB May 2021 #1
The noncompliance rate of Australia's 1996 gun confiscation is estimated to be 80%. Dial H For Hero May 2021 #2
 

YMB

(63 posts)
1. Unless other systems are in place
Wed May 12, 2021, 03:08 PM
May 2021

to make it mandatory, Buybacks will rarely ever work. And even then with the gun culture the way it is even if it was mandatory you still wouldn't see the response you did in say, Australia.

 

Dial H For Hero

(2,971 posts)
2. The noncompliance rate of Australia's 1996 gun confiscation is estimated to be 80%.
Wed May 12, 2021, 08:46 PM
May 2021

Even there, such laws are ineffective.

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