Gun buyback programs are a bust.

[KG1]

Studies show that gun buyback programs have no effect on reducing violence. Well duh. The people that use guns to commit crimes aren't typically inclined to turn them in.

MSN

 

[jwleeper]

My guess most of the turn ins are junk and the money will be used for drugs. It is an inter city thing that does not work like most inter city programs. Just my thoughts.
Have a great day.
Jim

 

[Farmerjon]

My neighbor has an FFL and would set up a table near buyback sites. He was offering 50 or a 100 bucks depending on what the buyback was offering. He got to cherry pick quite a few really nice guns that family was turning in due to being suckers. He at least paid more. People don't use their god given brains much.

 

[bgcatty]

Gun buy backs are a political stunt by local idiot politicians who think such a program helps curb “gun violence” when in fact there is no such thing as “gun violence” rather it IS criminal violence! Period!

 

[Tyler-The-Piker]

 

[92FSTech]

Thankfully, we live in a state where it's illegal to use public funds to facilitate this stupidity.

IC 35-47-3.5-3:

"A unit, including a law enforcement agency of a unit, may not conduct a firearm buyback program unless the firearm buyback program is financed or funded with private funds or grants, and not public funds."

 

[DadSmith]

So if they are paying $200 for a gun. Can we buy 100 Phoenix Arns for $125 and profit from the gun buy back or would the BATF find a reason to arrest you?

Or Rossi RS22's

 

[HHollow]

So if they are paying $200 for a gun. Can we buy 100 Phoenix Arns for $125 and profit from the gun buy back or would the BATF find a reason to arrest you?

Or Rossi RS22's

Normally an FFL would be required to legally flip a gun for profit. But then again they are "buying them back".

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

When the demand that “something must be done!” goes out it doesn’t seem to matter if the results are measureable, much less helpful, as long as the intentions are correct.

 

[indykid]

“Buy back” from honest people really makes sense. Just steal from your local police and if you can’t sell them on the street just take them to a buy back which usually is a no questions asked program.

200+ firearms stolen from Indianapolis area warehouses

https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/200-firearms-stolen-from-indianapolis-area-warehouses/

www.indianagunowners.com

 

[Peacekeeper3073]

A “gun buyback” is just ridiculous. Can’t buy back something you never owned.

 

[Ingomike]

“Buy back” from honest people really makes sense. Just steal from your local police and if you can’t sell them on the street just take them to a buy back which usually is a no questions asked program.

200+ firearms stolen from Indianapolis area warehouses

https://www.wishtv.com/news/i-team-8/200-firearms-stolen-from-indianapolis-area-warehouses/

www.indianagunowners.com

FYI. This was reported incorrect by our local police members. They were not police owned guns.

 

[indykid]

FYI. This was reported incorrect by our local police members. They were not police owned guns.

Thanks for the update!

 

[ed1838]

I heard the buy back in other states made you sign something that said you was not going to buy another guy with the money

 

[DadSmith]

I have a question. Are these guns tested and a sample saved to see if it was used to shoot someone? Or is this a place where a murderer can drop his/her gun off and it gets destroyed and evidence is completely lost forever?

 

[MrSmitty]

I once sold a single shot shot gun for $25, at a buy back in Louisville,the firing pin was an old nail, my dad gave me the gun as a junker

 

[DadSmith]

if the upper and lower get serialized can i sell them both seperate at a gun buyback for double the price?

I like your thinking.
With new atf rules you can take the insides out of a drill and turn it in as a pistol lower

 

[DadSmith]

i want to go to one of these events and offer a few bucks more out in the parkinglot and then hit up the indy 1500 lol

That might be illegal.... I may be wrong though.

 

[04FXSTS]

CHICAGO GUN BUYBACK: Guns Save Life Nets $2420 For NRA Youth Shooting Programs | GunsSaveLife.com

Guns Save Life members netted our second biggest haul ever as we once again turned in broken-down, often rust-laden junk for perfectly good cash at a Jul...

www.gunssavelife.com

As some here know I am a long time member of "Guns Save Life" a gun rights org based in Illinois. Those of you that have had the misfortune to drive into that horrible state have probably seen our "Burma Shave Signs" promoting gun ownership.

 

[cosermann]

No one should be surprised. Tools are not violent. People are violent. Ergo, eliminating certain tools (as if that could be done) would have no effect on violence. The violent are going to be violent.

But, but, but - as we all know, it's NOT about the violence, or about the crime, or about the children, or whatever plausible political cover the spout for the day - it's about control, pure and simple.