Gun 'buyback' Transfers Guns to Legal Market, uses Funds to get more Guns 'off the streets'

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2016/02/gun-buyback-transfers-guns-to-legal.html ^ | 2 February, 2016 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

Photo courtesy of Charles Tassell

I have often written that gun turn in programs, also known by the propaganda term 'gun buy back' (you cannot 'buy back' a gun you never owned), would benefit by including private buyers so that more guns could be purchased from people who do not want them, and the proceeds recycled into more gun turn ins.

The program would then be self sustaining and perpetual, serving to give people who do not want guns an easy way to legally dispose of them, while saving valuable resources and directing the guns into the legal market.  Resources that would have gone to manufacture more guns will then go to more productive purposes.

It appears that Charles Tassell, who is a Deer Park City Councilperson has had parallel thoughts.  He has put his thoughts into practice, in a market based gun turn in system that gets high marks for innovation, responsibility, and good management.  From cincinnati.com:

Deer Park City Councilperson Charles Tassell, who is pro-gun and holds a concealed-carry permit, didn't think that was the best way to run "Street Rescue," his gun buyback program.

Instead, he turns in the collected guns to federally licensed firearms dealers to be sold to the right hands.

"It's not my determination of the 'right hands,'" Tassell said. "It's the federal government's decision."

Buckeye Firearms explains why the system works so well:

 "Allowing the guns to go back into the secondary markets is a much better solution than simply destroying the firearms," said Joe Eaton, treasurer of the Buckeye Firearms Association. "It protects the historical and collectible guns and makes families safer by making less expensive firearms available to them."

 Gun turn in events have declined in many states.  A number of them, such as Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky and others have made it illegal to conduct such events unless the guns are sold, to prevent destruction of valuable assets.  Charles Tassell's approach takes the best of both worlds and combines them into a well thought out program that allows people to easily get rid of guns that they are uncomfortable with. 

Then those guns are placed in the legal market where they go to responsible gun owners.  Valuable guns are turned into more funds to continue the program; stolen guns are returned to owners.  Historical artifacts are preserved and cherished.

It is a win - win for all concerned.

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[marktwain]

This is the way gun 'buy backs' should be done. It probably should be called Gun Recycling.

[Celtic Conservative]

I’ll take the colt detective special in the middle of the pic.

CC

[showme_the_Glory]

Is the bottom row left a Browning Hi Power?

[showme_the_Glory]

Is the bottom row left right a Browning Hi Power?

[mad_as_he$$]

How many “gun buy back” events actually follow federal law regarding the transfer of weapons? Do they all have a licensed dealer present to conduct the transaction?

[NorthMountain]

No.

[tumblindice]

Nope.

[Tupelo]

I seriously doubt they have or need an FFL. After all they
always have a government official and usually a political cop (as opposed to a street cop) on scene.

[Fry]

Pretty sure it is a Browning 1922. They made them in .380 and .32 ACP. FN made a ton of them pre-WW2 and then some more after the war.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Nice post war M&P

[envisio]

Not sure but I see two shitbox(probably Jimenez) .380 hand grenades... the ones in the boxes.

[tumblindice]

Jennings pot-metal blowbacks? Those will fire most of the time.

[envisio]

They will load and extract most of the time also.
Lord help the one who accidentally loads a +p in those things.

[mad_as_he$$]

There is no exemption for transfers because you are a local government official.

[massgopguy]

and if that gun is used for protection and a ballistics test showed it was used in a previous murder?.....

[mad_as_he$$]

Many of these events are “amnesty” from prosecution. That doesn’t work for me in homicide cases.

[Tupelo]

Do you seriously believe the city of Chicago needs a FFL to purchase guns in a “buy back”?
Emmanuel’s Chicago?
Or Landrieu’s new Orleans?
Who is going to enforce that? Obama’s Just-us Dept’s BATFE?
Maybe in a nation of laws, but we are long past that..

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I’ll take the S&W revolvers and the Browning! You can keep the RG junk, Ravens, IMP junk and that Sterling .22 auto which probably jams on every shot!

[Ancesthntr]

“It is a win - win for all concerned.”

Yeah, except those who trade guns for a living - they’re being edged out of the business by yet more government interference.

That said, at least the guns don’t get melted down, someone who actually wants them can buy them. If they actually ever had a “buy-back” here in Texas (fat chance), I might go and offer the sellers more money than they’d get at the front of the line.

Of course, the big problem with these programs is that there MUST be a lot of guns that were stolen, or used in crimes, that are sold to the buy-back people, all on the promise of “no questions asked.” Real smart...for a rock.

[Ancesthntr]

“and if that gun is used for protection and a ballistics test showed it was used in a previous murder?.....”

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Which is why, if I ever bought one like that, I’d first keep all of the paperwork to PROVE when I obtained it and, second, I’d probably change the barrel or give it a serious polishing to change the ballistic signature.