thanks for posting it.

The guns we should be concerned about, the ones in the hands of gangbangers and other violent criminals, or paranoid nutcases won't be affected.

Several of the people interviewed in San Francisco said they were getting rid of their guns because they didn't want a family member to have access to them. For example, in one case a guy got rid of his gun because of an uncle with dementia. So if people who are not inclined to be violent give up their guns and keep them from falling into the wrong hands, that's a good thing.

No, this program has the right sentiments behind it.

But the devil is in the details.

When people like "The Distinguished Gentleman" Congressman Louie Gohmert from Texas says the whole thing could have been stopped if the Principal had an M4 military assault rifle we never will have sane gun control.

It's always all or nothing.

if the Newtown gunman's mom had turned her guns in. it would have been silly and pointless.

The point is she didn't.

And no doubt wouldn't, because it sounds more and more like she was one of those "I gots to have these guns to per-tect me!" types.

for the type of gun owner negligence she appears to have indulged in. If she had known that the law called for negligent owners to suffer the death penalty if their guns were left unsecured and used to commit mass murder, she might have behaved like any RESPONSIBLE ADULT would have and kept the damned things properly locked up.

These programs have great promise if we could properly fund them. And they could be funded with taxes on guns and ammunition plus the registration fees. Couple it with mandatory mental health screenings for anyone who wants to own a firearm and incentives for those who turn in their arms and incentives for those who provide information on people with unlicensed weapons, and we can start making progress.

It won't happen overnight, but we must begin to enact programs to disarm this country. Limit the number and type of firearms people can possess, offer opportunities, grace periods and incentives to turn them in. Anyone after that point is in violation of the law and subject to persecution. And if you know of someone in violation and you turn them in, you get rewarded.

It can be done.

I went to a gun buyback last year. Got rid of an old rusted handgun that didn't work, and got 150.00 for it.

It's a good start...

shooter's mom to get rid of her guns, either.



We will never know how many lives have been saved by turning in and destroying those 600 guns. But go ahead and live in your fantasy world where normal, squeaky clean white suburban dwellers don't have anything to do with gun violence.

Or maybe it was Delaware. That area. FB friend posted.

My brother had been sent to prison and had left a gun at my mom's house in Texas. She asked me to get rid of it. It was a cheap gun that was worth virtually nothing, but I certainly wasn't going to throw it in the trash. I took it to the police station, left it locked in my trunk and reported it to the cop at the front desk. I got the impression nobody had ever done that before. They treated me like a criminal until they figured out I legitimately wanted to get rid of it. They finally did take it after lengthy questioning. I got kinda soured by the whole thing and decided if anything like that ever happened again I would just throw it off a bridge into a big lake.

n/t

They recognized you ARE crazy. Not because you turned in the gun...

just sayin'.

I don't know how many of those were resales, but I'm sure a crap load were new weapons. These buy-backs look good on the news or in the papers, but they don't do anything to reduce the number of guns in the big scheme of things. In the U.S. right now, there are 90 guns for every 100 people. Do the math and that's over 280 million guns out there.

300 million guns.. I read that on a link today on DU

And the link I had challenges the data supply by the gun industry on gun sales. They don't provide their own data but try to use background checks as an indicator.

the 300 million is that amount of guns...maybe owned by 100 million? don't know...just that there are 300 million guns in America.

Did you read the article or the excerpts. About 21% appear to own guns as of 2010. I wouldn't think that would include youngsters. But if it did that would mean just over 66 million own guns. If just adults it would be about 50 million. When it is based on households the number is about 32%.

Do they destroy them somehow?

My husband has an old pistol that his father traded for cattle 50 yrs ago.
It has never been fired, we have no ammo & it's locked in a safe.
Frankly, I'd love to just get rid of it, thought about taking it to the police, but always kind of worried about what actually happens to it.

Does anyone know?

They are rendered unuseable for anything but melting down.

...and that's what's needed. Now we need to build on it.

...to the point that they have stood outside them and tried to buy guns from people turning them in. Scum.

That just goes to show you the weakest link is the private gun sales. STOP THE IRON PIPELINE NOW ! (I live in the NE).

http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Big-Response-to-Bay-Area-Gun-Buyback-183653391.html

The taxpayers are just paying over market prices for cheap guns. $200 cash for a firearm? Sounds like a great way for anyone knowledgeable about gun values to make a ton of money. Turn a rusted non-firing paperweight into cash. Or double your money on a military surplus rifle that hasn't seen sunlight in 60 years. Glad that makes you feel safer, but this is a huge waste of time and money.

While its still on peoples minds.

Don't take the guns to the local police or sheriff office, as they will have a gun sale (auction) later and there you go...some nut will buy the one that were turned in.

How much buyback money is used to subsidize upgrades to more LETHAL,
newer firearms? Gun buyback money is completely fungible, unless people who get gun buyback money agree, under penalty of law, they will no longer own firearms for, say, the niext five years.

If they subsequently undergo new background checks for new firearms, I'd advocate that they be prosecuted for attempted felony weapons possession.

Are there any data on the age, condition, and firepower of bought-back guns? At least two there posts in this thread (numbers 6 and 20) mention turning in guns that do not work anymore.

at 200 per weapon I have several I would turn in. However, it would be a rip off to the taxpayer since they are not worth half that . I recent local program offered 25 dollar gift cards to the dollar store. For these to be effective and affordable they are going to have to hit some type of median ground in what they are offering.