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Originally Posted by ctshooter
Funny how they call it a " buy back " I didn't know the government ever owned my guns !? How can they buy something back that never belonged to them??
What ever they want to call it..... Not for sale!!!
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You stole my answer...
ya bastid!!!
Myth: Gun “buy back” programs get guns off the
streets
Fact: According to the federal government, gun ‘buybacks’ have “no effect”.264
Fact: “Buy backs” remove no more than 2% of the firearms within a community. And
the firearms that are removed do not resemble guns used in crimes. “There has never
been any effect on crime results seen”.265
Fact: Up to 62% of people trading in a firearm still have another at home, and 27% said
they would or might buy another within a year.266
Fact: More than 50% of the weapons bought via a gun buy-back program were over 15
years old, whereas almost half of firearms seized from juveniles are less than three years
old.267
Fact: According to a variety of sources, the actual effect is that gun buy-back programs:
• Disarm future crime victims, creating new social costs
• Give criminals an easy way to dispose of evidence
• Are turned in by those least likely to commit crimes (the elderly, women, etc.)
• Cheap guns are bought and sold back to the government for a profit
• Cause guns to be stolen and sold to the police, creating more crime
• Seldom return stolen guns to their rightful owners
Fact: "They do very little good. Guns arriving at buy backs are simply not the same guns
that would otherwise have been used in crime. If you look at the people who are turning
Source...
http://jpfo.org/pdf03/gun-facts-v6.0-screen.pdf
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