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petronius

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4. Good, that's exactly what should happen

Reply to SkeleTim1968 (Original post)

Mon Jul 11, 2016, 02:24 PM

Jul 2016

The only real benefit from 'buy backs' is the removal of a firearm from a place where it is unwanted and/or can't be stored properly. Once the gun is handed in, that benefit has fully accrued.

Firearms are worth money, and it's a very appropriate use of this resource to convert them into funds for public services. Destroying them provides no public benefit (and may even have a cost); firearms are fungible, and destroying the tiny number of them passing through buy-backs does nothing at all to deny a firearm to anyone who might want one...

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Guns from buy backs are resold by police departments [View all] SkeleTim1968 Jul 2016 OP

Why am I NOT suprised that police are also taking part in gun laundering? Lancero Jul 2016 #1

I wonder how many of these have been used to plant on people? SkeleTim1968 Jul 2016 #2

Disgusting. So buy backs are just a scam run by the biggest armed gang around. brush Jul 2016 #3

Wrong. Straw Man Jul 2016 #8

Buy back at a "nominal" fee or, the gun amnesty programs where guns are turned in for . . . brush Jul 2016 #12

Tell me ... Straw Man Jul 2016 #22

Not rocket science. If cops complain about too many guns . . . brush Jul 2016 #23

Rocket science? Straw Man Jul 2016 #25

Sounds like double talk to me. They should take the opportunity to destroy the guns . . . brush Jul 2016 #28

Promised? Straw Man Jul 2016 #30

Good, that's exactly what should happen petronius Jul 2016 #4

It puts them back on the street under the false pretense that they are being taken off of the street SkeleTim1968 Jul 2016 #5

The only real benefit from drug busts... Jerry442 Jul 2016 #7

Your analogy would hold up ... Straw Man Jul 2016 #10

See post #7 updated. Jerry442 Jul 2016 #15

Allow me to retort. Straw Man Jul 2016 #21

When drugs become legal, I expect that may happen. Why throw away a good commodity? jmg257 Jul 2016 #11

See post #7 updated Jerry442 Jul 2016 #16

Ah - thanks - now that makes much more sense. If people turning in guns really are concerned jmg257 Jul 2016 #18

Your editorial analogy is flawed to the point of failure, in several ways: petronius Jul 2016 #14

See post #7 updated Jerry442 Jul 2016 #17

They should be removed from circulation entirely, melted down and recycled... Humanist_Activist Jul 2016 #6

Too bad I don't own a welding shop near one of these places. Jerry442 Jul 2016 #13

Yeah, too bad. Straw Man Jul 2016 #31

So the gun makers can make a replacement? krispos42 Jul 2016 #20

Its nothing like burning a "satanic" album or book, do those albums or books increase the... Humanist_Activist Jul 2016 #32

Yeah it is krispos42 Jul 2016 #33

You do bring up a good point, I would also advocate for an elimination in the production of... Humanist_Activist Jul 2016 #34

Did you hear about this? HockeyMom Jul 2016 #29

Since a "buy BACK" suggests a former owner, turn them over to the manufacturer.... Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #9

I think it's the law in Georgia. Police must sell confiscated guns to FFLs. aikoaiko Jul 2016 #19

So damned discouraging. Sooner or later the people who need their lives sane will win. n/t Judi Lynn Jul 2016 #24

Buy backs are just publicity stunts that rip off inner city residents anyway Lee-Lee Jul 2016 #26

I love gun buybacks Travis_0004 Jul 2016 #27

wonder if this tune would change if the dallas shooter used a buy back resold gun to shoot the cops dembotoz Jul 2016 #35