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Gun Control & RKBA

HeartachesNhangovers

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1. If you are an active career criminal with a gun, I doubt you'd give it up for a $100 gift card.

Reply to Dial H For Hero (Original post)

Tue Apr 19, 2022, 05:59 PM

Apr 2022

On the other hand, if you are a non-career criminal who has an old, beat up gun in a drawer that you inherited somehow, but you've never shot it and are never going to shoot it, why not turn it in for the cash or gift card? To me that seems like the most likely source of guns that are turned in, and of course, since they weren't being used at all (and possibly not in working condition), taking them "off the street" wouldn't do much to reduce crime.

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Gun buybacks take weapons out of circulation, no evidence it reduces violence, experts say [View all] Dial H For Hero Apr 2022 OP

If you are an active career criminal with a gun, I doubt you'd give it up for a $100 gift card. HeartachesNhangovers Apr 2022 #1

Gun buybacks don't necessarily take weapons out of circulation ... Straw Man Apr 2022 #2