No matter how much I stood to profit, I absolutely could not, and would not -- out of principle --, participate in one of these events.
1. It (the "gun buy-back") is a big lie. Too few fully functional weapons are turned in, and the functional types turned in are often old, obsolete, revolvers or single shot guns. No Daniel Defense ARs or SIG P-226 Legions. So the lie is that "killing weapons" are being "taken off the streets."
2. It takes advantage of old people (and poor people) on fixed incomes, i.e., a widow on Social Security who turns in her late husband's firearms for 200 bucks a pop, when she has no clue of actual value or how to properly sell them, and could possibly stand to make hundreds, if not thousands of dollars for often what turn out to be collector's items or classics.
3. It provides a media circus for the anti-gun crowd, to "prove" how willing many impoverished people are to turn in their firearms, and to feed the big lie, that a gun buy-back is saving lives in the community.
4. Benefits of gun buyback programs are absolutely not measurable in any standardized scientific method.
5. It's an inefficient use of taxpayer resources. These programs cost more money to execute than is made up for in results.
6. “Handguns recovered in buyback programs are not the types most commonly linked to firearm homicides and suicides,” (this from a peer-reviewed study of gun buyback programs since the 1970s).
The programs are propaganda for the people who do NOT want firearms in the hands of citizens and do not believe in the RKBA.
You want to participate in one of these programs for personal gain, just don't try to spin it to make us understand.
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