Gun "buybacks" ineffective - Who'd a thunk it?

[AlanM]

13News Now Investigates: How effective are gun buybacks?

A study from the National Bureau of Economic Research found gun buybacks are "ineffective at deterring gun crime."

Researchers offered several reasons that gun buybacks could fail to reduce gun violence, including:

The gift cards aren't priced high enough to incentivize donations
Most participants come from low-crime areas
The firearms exchanged "tend to be older and less well-functioning than the average firearm."

[Javelin Man]

#4. Criminals don't turn in their guns.

[3FULLMAGS+1]

Geeee Whizzzz
I'm completely shocked ! ! !

[docachna]

I missed the last gun buyback in Nashville. I was going to show up with a sign on the sidewalk and tell them I would offer more than the buyback if I liked the gun. Knowing Metro Nashville PD, that probably would have lasted about ten minutes before they tried to run me off for conducting a business without a city license. At which point, it would have gotten interesting.

[drc]

There was a guy in the greater Akron area (since naturally deceased due to age) that would buy box fulls of el-cheapo handguns. He would then go trade them for good guns. The people got their money and he got inventory of really good stuff to sell.

When I first met my wife, there was a Luger that had been taken off a dead SS officer by one of the uncles. One of the other uncles turned it in for a $50.00 food
coupon in Cleveland. She wouldn't let me tell him that he p*ssed away over a grand.

[High Power]

There was a guy in the greater Akron area (since naturally deceased due to age) that would buy box fulls of el-cheapo handguns. He would then go trade them for good guns. The people got their money and he got inventory of really good stuff to sell.

When I first met my wife, there was a Luger that had been taken off a dead SS officer by one of the uncles. One of the other uncles turned it in for a $50.00 food
coupon in Cleveland. She wouldn't let me tell him that he p*ssed away over a grand.

...and that some LEO got a really nice Luger for his collection.

A friend of mine came home from a deployment in Afghanistan to discover that his wife sold all of his firearms in a gun "buyback" scheme. That was about a dozen guns that she threw away. That's one of the reasons she is now his EX-wife.

[JEaton]

The only 'buy-back' I have seen that provides any benefit besides grandstanding for the mayor/chief/leo are the ones ran in Cincinnati by https://street-rescue.org/

They focus on having people turn in 'community guns'. We mainly see guns turned in by (ex)-girlfriends which were given to them by prohibited owners or from homeless community who find them stashed in hide-holes and are afraid they may be used against them. Also lots of mothers bring in realistic BB-guns they find with their kids thinking they are real.

The guns turned in go to a local FFL who buys them for resale.
The money Street Rescue gets from the FFL funds future events.
And the legal gun owners in the community have more affordable guns available to buy from the FFL.

It is also ran with a partnership of liberal Dem politicians and gun loving Republicans so that plays well in the local media

PS: They are a non-profit with no government support so if you want to make a small donation you can get info here : https://street-rescue.org/Donation_Information.htm

JLE