First US Gun Buyback Program - 1974

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    adit

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    MDS Supporter
    Feb 20, 2013
    19,698
    DE
    I was doing a little buyback research and came across this gem.

    Supposedly the first ever in the US was held in Balto City. I had never heard this before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_buyback_program#Maryland

    I guess the same shenanigans we pull today were done at the very first one.

    Searched the forum on this and didn't come up with anything.
     
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    ras_oscar

    Ultimate Member
    Apr 23, 2014
    1,667
    Interesting lesson "and crime went up" IMHO, the fallacy of these programs is the turn-ins are by people that probably never took the firearms out of their home in the first place. I have not seen a correlation made between the number of guns in the state and levels of violence. Any time someone says " common sense measures" it means they have no facts to back up their assertions. Anybody research what happens to these " turned in" firearms? I suspect the police sell them to the second hand market and pocket the profit.

    http://www.infowars.com/gun-buyback...epartments-actually-sell-the-guns-for-profit/
     
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    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn

    I stand with John Locke.
    Jan 20, 2013
    13,095
    Plan D? Not worth the hassle.
    Stupid is strongly self replicating and grows exponentially in non hostile media. Lacking natural preditors, being devoid of value as prey, it will expand until its food supply is exhausted.

    At which point, baring outside influence, its host will expire, leaving only idiot spores behind in the form of " scholarship ".

    Humans being resilient and yet subsepable hosts, the cycle soon repeats.

    Aka :: You can't fix stupid, other than by extinction of the host race..

    And even then all that will survive is the stupid left behind ...
     
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    Bald Fat Guy

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    Oct 7, 2014
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    But they weren't failures. They generated positive media attention for the LE brass, and antigun media spin generally. Crime reduction had nothing to do with it.
     
    possumman

    possumman

    Ultimate Member
    Jan 13, 2011
    3,250
    Pikesville Md
    A friend of mine had been a cop in the 60s and early 70s untill he was injured- he a had a bushel basket full of junk guns he had taken off of people over the years - suddenly they were worth something.
     
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    Reptile

    Ultimate Member
    Sep 29, 2014
    7,282
    Columbia MD
    Bald Fat Guy said:
    But they weren't failures. They generated positive media attention for the LE brass, and antigun media spin generally. Crime reduction had nothing to do with it.
    Click to expand...

    They were only failures by the standards sane people set. For the rest of the world it only matters that the buy back was intended to reduce crime. :sad20:
     
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