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ReturnOfFa posted...

most countries have had relatively successful buyback programs. they're complex, but the solution you proposed is not the solution that has been implemented in Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The countries that have had buybacks were made mandatory and had a host of other laws implemented to force people to sell their own property (which the government never owned) against their will in most cases. It doesnt work like that in the US where theres already a massive amount of them out there and readily attainable. All the buyback programs that have been tried in various states have largely failed. what you tend to get is a bunch of grandpas old hunting rifles, a bunch of saterday night specials people bought for $100 and then turned in for $200 (which they can then go and buy 2 burner guns) or made their own stuff for $30 and turned them in for a huge profit. they had a similar problem with magazine buybacks and ended up stopping those since people would buy a shit ton of them for $10/ea online and end up turning them in for $25 a piece. based on what california has done, statistically the type of guns one would actually want off the street acounted for like 5% of the guns they turned in and even then theres no way of knowing if those specific guns would have ever wined up in an incident.