A couple of years ago people were BUYING the guns before they got to the buy-back tables. Some pretty nice deals were made. Of course that was back when private sales without any paperwork were legal.
Now I can’t even let my 19 year-old son hold my shotgun at the range! Seriously. That constitutes a “transfer”. Although I CAN “transfer” it to someone 17 years old if it is for instructional purposes. And my wife can use it - but only at a regulated gun range. (So no plinking at the gravel pit with her. Well, not legally anyway.)
I remember the expended LAW tube that was pictured in every report about the “buyback”, both on TV and in the papers. The hyperventilating was pure comedy gold, although it also demonstrated the aggressive ignorance of both the media and the gun grabbing politicians.