MaterDei
Member
I've been thinking.
Every time I see news about a gun buy back program I'm tortured to see people turning in some pretty nice firearms for meager sums of money. In essence, I see a wasted opportunity.
In the limited research I've seen, it appears that, on average, people receive $40 - $100 worth of cash, goods or services for their weapons.
I propose we have our own program. We could call it The First Annual THR Gun Buy-Back Program. We could hold it the city of our choice, preferably one that hasn't had a buy-back program in place so that there are more available unwanted guns in circulation.
On a volunteer basis, THRers interested in participating could contribute $500 each to the 'buy-back pool'. The pool of money would be used in part to advertise the event, to rent a facility, and to have a few rent-a-cops for security. All the remaining cash would be used to help find unwanted and unloved guns a nice home. We would require that the guns be in serviceable condition but have no other requirements. I propose that we pay...err... buy-back each weapon for $50.
At the end of the event we could post pictures and info of the bought-back guns online somewhere. We could then have a 'draft'. Each THR buy-back participant would, via a lottery of some sort, have a draft position. When your position in the draft came up you would be allowed to select one weapon. We would have as many rounds as we had weapons available. Assuming that overhead expenses ran about 20%, that would leave enough cash to buy-back 8 guns each participant.
Some of my limited buy-back research:
http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/childinjury/topic/firearms/buyback.htm
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/public/releases/press0353.htm
http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/buy_back.htm
With a nice picture of the types of guns turned in at this event...
http://www.maricopa.gov/dist5/buyback.asp
Every time I see news about a gun buy back program I'm tortured to see people turning in some pretty nice firearms for meager sums of money. In essence, I see a wasted opportunity.
In the limited research I've seen, it appears that, on average, people receive $40 - $100 worth of cash, goods or services for their weapons.
I propose we have our own program. We could call it The First Annual THR Gun Buy-Back Program. We could hold it the city of our choice, preferably one that hasn't had a buy-back program in place so that there are more available unwanted guns in circulation.
On a volunteer basis, THRers interested in participating could contribute $500 each to the 'buy-back pool'. The pool of money would be used in part to advertise the event, to rent a facility, and to have a few rent-a-cops for security. All the remaining cash would be used to help find unwanted and unloved guns a nice home. We would require that the guns be in serviceable condition but have no other requirements. I propose that we pay...err... buy-back each weapon for $50.
At the end of the event we could post pictures and info of the bought-back guns online somewhere. We could then have a 'draft'. Each THR buy-back participant would, via a lottery of some sort, have a draft position. When your position in the draft came up you would be allowed to select one weapon. We would have as many rounds as we had weapons available. Assuming that overhead expenses ran about 20%, that would leave enough cash to buy-back 8 guns each participant.
Some of my limited buy-back research:
http://depts.washington.edu/hiprc/childinjury/topic/firearms/buyback.htm
http://www.ci.sf.ca.us/police/public/releases/press0353.htm
http://www.atf.gov/pub/fire-explo_pub/buy_back.htm
With a nice picture of the types of guns turned in at this event...
http://www.maricopa.gov/dist5/buyback.asp