[yarddog]

Actually the people turning in their guns in these programs are generally old people who inherited a gun and never even tried to use it.

About the only criminals who would turn in a gun are those who want to get rid of a broken or junky gun.

Also that phrase "get them off the street" is repeated so often that I finally thought about it. They think these guns are just lying around on the street, or maybe prowling around like stray cats trying to see who they can shoot.

[Atlas Sneezed]

"Actually the people turning in their guns in these programs are generally old people who inherited a gun and never even tried to use it."

I thank God that for 35+ years, my gun-fearing Mother let Grand-dad's Colt revolver hide in a paper bag in the back of her closet, and never heard of one of these buy-ups. I now give the Colt a safe, loving home.

The bizarre thing is that my Mother has for years occasionally felt fearful when she is staying alone in her remote vacation home. She would never consider learning to use a gun, but would get immense psychic benefit from it, instead of feeling mortal fear when a car mistakenly pulls into the drive in the middle of the night.