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Pay for Christmas: Peoria Church Paying $200+ For Unwanted Rifles, Shotguns and Pistols on Saturday, Nov. 19th

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A Peoria pastor has organized a gun “buyback” event on Saturday, November 19th at four locations in the city starting at 10a.m. Do-gooder organizers will trade $200 gift cards for any “functional” handguns, rifles or shotguns. They’ll pay twice that and more for other guns they perceive as extra-icky or particularly scary looking. Come early, … Read more

Illinois Rep. Sean Casten: We Need an Australia-Style Mandatory ‘Buyback’ Because America Has Too Many Guns

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Illinois Representative Sean Casten feels deeply that “we have too many guns.” His innovative solution to this pressing problem: a buyback. But not just any ol’ buyback. The Daily Herald reported on it, saying: Already an advocate of stricter gun control laws, U.S. Rep. Sean Casten of Downers Grove this week voiced support for a … Read more

New Zealand’s Failed ‘Buyback’: Don’t Believe All the Numbers You’re Seeing

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The final numbers for the New Zealand “buyback” confiscation are now available. We’ll begin by taking them at face value. As of December 21, 2019 (the day after the “buyback” ended), they claim: Collected: 51,342 newly banned firearms. Modified to comply: 2,717 Total: 54,059 That’s 22.5% compliance based on the previous estimate of 240,000 affected … Read more

Time’s Up! New Zealand’s Gun ‘Buyback’ Amnesty Ends…Poorly

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A few months ago, in face-to-face conversations, I made a little prediction. Sadly, if I ever put it in writing somewhere, I can’t find it now. (ETA: Ah ha! I did document that prediction.) As I watched and reported on the New Zealand firearm “buyback,” I noted the low rates of compliance, based on NZ … Read more

New Zealand Data Breach Reveals Extent of Gun ‘Buyback’ Non-Compliance

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I’ve been following the New Zealand firearm “buyback” with some amusement as I ran estimates on the compliance rate based on NZ Police turn-in reports and NZ government guesstimates of the number of affected firearms. (It’s a measly 16.5% as of November 24.) News of the “buyback” privacy breach has added extra humor value. Sorry, … Read more

Beto’s Big Buyback: Hyperbolic, Not Hyperbole

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Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke has a plan to get AR-15s and “AK-47s” off the street. Of course, you’ve heard all about his “buyback,” but now he’s explained how he’ll pay for it without costing taxpayers a cent. “I think a mandatory buyback can be financed with a surcharge that would be paid by gun manufacturers, … Read more

‘Guns Save Life’ Uses Chicago Gun Buyback Cash To Send Kids To NRA Gun Camp. Again.

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Guns Save Life loves Chicago’s gun buybacks. Three times in the past dozen years or so, the scrappy Illinois gun rights group has sold rusty junk to Chicago’s taxpayers, then used the proceeds to send young people to an NRA summer shooting camp. Saturday, Guns Save Life pulled it off again. Yes, we took our … Read more

Crowd-Funded Oakland Gun Buyback Falls Pitifully Short, Needs Public Bailout.

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Gun buybacks are sad affairs for most people. They’re sad for the bored police officers who have to staff them, unless they get to cherry-pick the guns they want to keep for themselves, and they’re sad for deluded utopians who have convinced themselves that melting down replica 2-band muskets will prevent gang-bangers from killing each other on Oakland’s mean streets. Now a Bay Area anti-gun group is the latest to join the pity party, because their crowdfunding outreach hasn’t even raised half they money they need for a December 14th buyback in San Jose . . .

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