Buybacks are a touchy subject in the Second Amendment community. In part, because no one is really buying anything back. The government didn’t own the guns in the first place, so how can they buy them back? The same is true of non-profits that hold such events.
Of course, that’s only part of the problem.
The other part is that they simply don’t work. Time after time, we see that buybacks accomplish less than nothing.
But one such event in New York illustrates just part of why they don’t work.
On Saturday, 60 firearms were turned in to law enforcement at a gun buyback program hosted by the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) in partnership with the Kingston Police Department, and the Ulster County Sheriff’s Office. OAG accepts working and non-working unloaded firearms with no questions asked in exchange for compensation on site.
Now, Kingston, New York is a city of around 23,000 people.
They got 60 guns from a city of around 23,000 people.
Somehow, I don’t think that even touches on the total number of firearms in the city, even in anti-gun New York. And here’s the funny thing. This is actually a good amount of guns for a buyback.
I’ve seen some where they crow about incredibly small numbers of firearms being taken in.
Further, we know that they don’t do anything. Studies have shown they don’t actually do anything. They don’t take guns from criminals, they generally take them from law-abiding citizens who just want the thing gone.
When they do get guns from criminals, it’s likely a gun they want dumped so it can’t be linked back to them.
After all, “no questions asked” means no questions, so they can dispose of evidence in a way that not only doesn’t come back on them but puts a bit of money in their pockets.
Better sell them back to the public since they need them !!!
They would. Damn yankees.
Apparently Kingston NY needs to have a refresher on Ukraine and how they were handing out guns like candy, to save their country. Or, maybe the liberals plan is to let our country be destroyed and taken over by communism.