The guns will be held for a short time by the police before they are melted...except for the valuable or unique ones, which will magically disappear before the rest of them go to the smelter.
Such a scam, these buybacks. Do they really think some punk gangbanger is going to turn in that .25 he’s got stuck in his waistband? He can get a hell of a lot more than $50 with it, depending on who he uses it to rob.
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I think if you ever had some research group look at each weapon bought via a program in any city....it typically all lines up to be guns that are of a cheap nature...bought twenty to thirty years ago, and left in a garage or basement. Or you have weapons which are in disrepair and the repair costs are such that you just don’t want to mess with it. A gang-banger giving up his weapon? Never...in a thousand years.
You know the Police well. Of course the good guns either go in the department lockers or go home with the officers with new serial numbers. The same thing happens when Police do liquor and drug raids.
The punk will turn in the rusty old revolver or the single shot shotgun with a 36” barrel that he stole from some old white couple. He’ll keep the ‘special’ and any other Ghetto Gun he steals.