Justice Dept. Internal Memo Admits Gun Buybacks, ‘Assault Weapons’ Bans, ... Don't Work

theblaze.com ^ | 19 February, 2013 | Mytheos Holt

[marktwain]

Gun control may still be very much a topic for national conversation, and the prospects of some variety of gun control legislation may look better for anti-gun forces than they have in nearly 20 years, but a Justice Department internal memo from early in the year that just got leaked to the public may scuttle all of that. The memo comes from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), a subgroup within the Justice Department, which defines itself this way:

The National Institute of Justice — the research, development and evaluation agency of the U.S. Department of Justice — is dedicated to improving knowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJ provides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime and promote justice, particularly at the state and local levels.

In other words, when a policy is proposed that the department has to enforce, they go to this group with questions. No partisan agenda can be reasonably inferred, and if there were one, it would likely incline toward the administration’s preferred policy.

Not that you’d know it from reading the memo itself, which takes aim at nearly every form of gun control proposed by the Obama administration and its allies in Congress, and systematically shoots it all down (no pun intended), or argues for proposals that are completely politically untenable. Making matters worse for the administration, the memo wasn’t drafted by some low level flunky in the NIJ, but rather from Greg Ridgeway, its Deputy Director. Moreover, Ridgeway is not a Bush administration holdover, but was, in fact, hired last year right in the thick of President Obama’s reelection campaign.

[marktwain]

The policies will only "work" if there is universal registration and massive confiscation. Even that is very questionable.

[elkfersupper]

I find it refreshing that people with a FFL (and some maybe without) are setting up shop outside these “events” and buying firearms that should not be destroyed or confiscated by the enemy for their own purposes before the “confiscators” can get to them.

[TaMoDee]

In many states you don’t need an FFL to buy firearms from the people in line. A free person can sell to another free person, such as it should be!

[itsahoot]

“Participating in a gun buy back because you believe that criminals have too many guns is like getting yourself a vasectomy because you believe that the neighbors have too many kids.”

[FreedomPoster]

Bfl