I turned in my Glock 17, a Colt M1911, a Smith & Wesson Model 686 and an Sig Sauer P320, and I received a library card, a voucher for a florist and a handshake. The Colt was later used in a bank robbery, I got interviewed by the police four times.
Just another day in America
You don’t specify where in the world you mean. I’ve got 15 minutes to spare on the toilet so I’ll just answer for some place:
In Sweden they proposed recovation of granted licenses and a forced buyback of AR-15. They had to change it to a voluntary buyback. I belive the justice department said it would most likely be found unconstitutional.
Generally civilian legal weapons are not used in crime, organised or not. They are also not stolen and then used in any significant numbers. It’s simply easier and cheaper to buy already illegal guns (or bombs, they are the latest fashion in the current gang wars).
Over all it turned out as political showing of “we do something about the problem” that did nothing about the problem and would not have done anything about the problem.
The only thing any of the gun buybacks I’ve been to in the Northeast ever accomplished was letting collector’s know where they could buy guns for cheap. The state never offers full value, it’s always like, $100 and a gift card, so collectors would just go up and down the line offering more than the government. I picked up my shotgun and Remington 700 cheap as hell out of a gun buyback line.
Given that a lot of guns turned in to buyback programs have been inoperable… No. Also, there was at least once case of a guy printing a lot of pistol frames–and for most pistols, the frame is legally the firearm–and then turning them in for cash. The filament for the printer cost far less than the cash he received for each one, so he made a pretty significant profit.
Horribly in wny. More guns got stolen but even the ones stolen didnt offset the amount of useless antique guns that got traded in for the same cash as an AR. There is a reason you can not get any statistics from NY on the SAFE act even with FOIL requests.