Buy back programs seem like the perfect solution. Who could argue? No coersion; if you want to have/keep a gun you can. But still lots of incentive to turn them in. Seems like the best of both worlds. Now all we have to do is get the cash payments up. What if it was $100 a gun? $500? $1000? Could you hit a price point where you would get almost all the guns? (Obviously there is a point, for example, $50,000 a gun would surely get almost every gun out there, although that may no be a reasonable number.) Even if it cost a few billion dollars, wouldn't it be worth it? Rather than passing laws, I think people should pony up the dough into a central fund to be used for a nation wide, no questions asked, buy back program.
i think you lost me there jim, if not yourself. no amount of money is worthwhile if guns are not outlawed which you yourself are opposed to. ill buy a gun and turn it in if someone will give me $50000. and then ill go out and buy another 1000 and turn them in. i doubt that gun buybacks are very effective when there are 250000000 gun in america and counting.
long guns si ! pistols no ! No automatics either. All trasactions registered like cars with proper age and legal history req's and no just outside city limits unregistered gunfairs. Buy backs help a little and at least dont hurt as long as Jim doesn't drive gun sales up with his out of balance buy back plan as df points out. On the other hand, hold your ground dude.
long guns si ! pistols no ! No (semi)automatics either. All trasactions registered like cars with proper age and legal history checks and no just outside city limits unregistered gunfair loopholes. Buy backs help a little and at least dont hurt as long as Jim doesn't drive gun up sales with his out of balance buy back plan (as df points out). Other than that, hold your ground dude.
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- jim 5-30-2000 11:20 pm
i think you lost me there jim, if not yourself. no amount of money is worthwhile if guns are not outlawed which you yourself are opposed to. ill buy a gun and turn it in if someone will give me $50000. and then ill go out and buy another 1000 and turn them in. i doubt that gun buybacks are very effective when there are 250000000 gun in america and counting.
- dave 5-31-2000 4:09 am [add a comment]
long guns si ! pistols no ! No automatics either. All trasactions registered like cars with proper age and legal history req's and no just outside city limits unregistered gunfairs. Buy backs help a little and at least dont hurt as long as Jim doesn't drive gun sales up with his out of balance buy back plan as df points out. On the other hand, hold your ground dude.
- bill 6-05-2000 10:16 pm [add a comment]
long guns si ! pistols no ! No (semi)automatics either. All trasactions registered like cars with proper age and legal history checks and no just outside city limits unregistered gunfair loopholes. Buy backs help a little and at least dont hurt as long as Jim doesn't drive gun up sales with his out of balance buy back plan (as df points out). Other than that, hold your ground dude.
- bill 6-05-2000 10:21 pm [add a comment]