Posted on 12/22/2021 3:44:04 AM PST by marktwain
Gun turn-in events, labeled with the Orwellian term “buyback” are making a small comeback in the United States. Most of them are occurring in states where private sales are not allowed by law. They are not occurring in states which require the valuable property to be sold for the public’s benefit.
Illinois has a version of the law that requires private sales to go through the state website, identify the purchaser of the firearms with a Firearms Owner Identification (FOID), and be assigned an approval number. This eliminates privacy from private sales. It becomes unworkable for private purchasers to buy guns legally at gun turn-in events.
At the Evanston, Illinois event, 53 guns were turned in on December 4, 2021. From wgntv.com:
EVANSTON, Ill. — Evanston police held a gun buyback event on Saturday, just days after a shooting left four people wounded and one dead.
“It gets the guns off the street. Whether it’s one gun or five, today we had 53. It gets the guns off the street,” interim police chief Aretha Barnes said.
Today, citizens were given $100 for each gun and $25 for ammunition. The gun buyback began nine years ago.
“I’m a lifetime 5th Ward Evanston resident and I was concerned about the gun violence I was experiencing in the neighborhood, so I was planning to do a gun buyback,” organizer Carolyn Murray said.
The best academic study of these events shows they do not reduce homicide, gun crimes, or suicide. There is a small but statistically significant increase in crimes committed with guns in the two months after the event.
These events are propaganda, street theater, virtue signaling; they are symbolic, not pragmatic.
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They are meant to send a message: Guns are bad. Turn them in to the police.
Not that so called buy backs are right.
But Ruger, S@W and a lot others produce even more every day.
Yes, indeed. When the people at a “buyback” destroy old guns, they increase the demand for new guns.
How much will they pay me if I promise not to point my imaginary hand gun at people?
I would set set up a table at these ‘buy-back’ events.
I’d offer top dollar for any collectibles that showed up for turn in, and let the scrap go to the program.
LOL, I remember years ago when Buffalo, NY first started these. They were giving $50 for any firearm. Some people cleaned out the local K-Marts of a spring type BB gun that they were buying for about $20 each. The Buff PD bragged about how many pistols they got, but they never listed what kind they were. In subsequent years, they got smart and only gave $20 for BB guns.
These events are mostly happening in states where private sales are outlawed, such as in Illinois.
The reason: people doing what you suggest destroys the propaganda value of the event.
I am a little surprised there is not a commercial enterprise doing something similar. Any “gun shop”, from mom and pop to Cabelas/Bass Pro in PA will buy used guns, provided they are legal and worth something. They just don’t really publicly promote the part of the business very much.
“ Yes, indeed. When the people at a “buyback” destroy old guns, they increase the demand for new guns.”
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Yup, just a way to clear out old unwanted inventory and make a little money on the side.
$100 for an old broken pellet gun?? Might have had to take them up on that..
“$100 for an old broken pellet gun?? Might have had to take them up on that..”
I have a couple of old busted junkers that I would love to turn in for $100.
OR MY POP-TART????
“ These events are mostly happening in states where private sales are outlawed, such as in Illinois.”
Private sales are not illegal in Illinois.
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Can you legally sell a firearm in Illinois without getting permission from the state?
If you cannot, private sales are illegal.
They are no longer private.
They are state approved, state monitored sales.
“Can you legally sell a firearm in Illinois without getting permission from the state?”
What Illinois does regarding private sales is no different than what’s required when buying from Bass Pro Shops. And I can tell you that with regard to private sales it’s being universally ignored.
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Exactly my point.
Interesting that it is being generally ignored, but hard to do at a public event where local politicians would love an excuse to arrest Second Amendment supporters.
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