How many Jennings and Lorcins were there? $50million gun buyback

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Dang that's a lot of Lorcins huh?

Just struck me as funny, 50 million dollars.. Come on.

D.C. Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton has a great idea. She wants to spend $50 million of taxpayer money... your money... to fund "gun buybacks" nationwide.

But there's a big problem with that old idea: The federal government already tried subsidizing gun buybacks during the Clinton administration. And in 2001, they stopped funding gun buybacks because "the results of gun buybacks are minimal." That's what the Department of Housing and Urban Development said, not me. They don't work.

Now Norton wants to more than triple the funding, from $15 million to $50 million. It was a waste of time and money before... so tripling the waste of taxpayer dollars will only make it a three-times-more-expensive failure.

If Delegate Eleanor Norton is really serious about reducing violent crime, I can think of a lot of cops, investigators, prosecutors and prisons that could use the money. Even if she doesn't want your money to go where it could help, you shouldn't let her waste it where everyone knows it won't.

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There is always a part of me that wants to drive around town buying up all of the $50 pawn shop .25 autos and waiting for a $200 no questions asked buyback. I wouldn't mourn the loss of the cheap guns because the profits would fund several new guns for the old collection.
 
Dayam, dayam, dayam, dayam. When air they goin' to have one uh them "buybacks" in Denver?

Dayam!
 
I know there's one still out there...

Bought a Lorcin .380 new for $130 about 7 years ago from a pawnshop before I knew better.

Sold it a few months ago for $120 to fund a Ruger P97 acquisition. My Lorcin was the "1 in 1000" exception. It didn't jam or misfire unless very dirty.
 
I'm all for this gun buy back....I've got some crap broken pistols and rifles that I can sell back.
 
I keep a few parts guns around for projects etc. I think I would gladly sell them for $200 each.
 
No its not a good way to fund new guns.
I'm already sick and tired of my tax dollars going to people who can't afford to buy their own crap. That goes for gun owners also.
 
I've always wondered what their faces would look like when I showed up with a sackful of "zip-guns" (rifled barrels of course ;)).

However, there have been no buy-backs in my area, not that I'm unhappy with that. :D
 
Methinks the money is better spent on Planned Parenthood or workforce development.

There's a guy that does the local gun shows around here with a pile of "as-is" pieces for $75 each. If it's $200 per turn-in... hmmmm.
 
I don't like the idea of turning in anything to "buybacks". It'll only increase their numbers of "evil guns taken off the streets" and justify their spending more of OUR money for these rediculous programs. They'll never hear about your new acquisition from "buyback" funds.
Weapons are one of the tools of the trade for criminals. If they have a "car buyback" they can't expect cab drivers to turn in their cabs. They can't expect carpenters to turn in their tool belts at the next tool buyback. If people want to sell an inherited collection of guns, fine. Give them fair market value and keep them in circulation instead of pennies on the dollar in some cases, then melting down the ones they don't want after the LE agency picks out the guns they want to keep for themselves.
 
We had a biiiig loooong thread about buybacks recently.

I think the upshot was that it didn't matter how much the antis crowed about getting guns off the street --they were going to crow about it anyhow, even if it were only one POS turned in. It would be a "success" in their minds.

For me, I'd turn in a water pistol if they'd take it.

Just to drain their resources to that extent.
 
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