Over 500 guns were surrendered to Baltimore police within the first hour and a half of a citywide gun buyback program this week. Participants received anywhere from $25 to $500 for their unwanted firearms. The program reportedly cost the city $250,000, but there is little evidence that buyback programs are effective in reducing violence, or even in reducing the number of firearms in circulation—as one woman ably demonstrated. Kathleen Cairns, a WBFF Baltimore journalist, tweeted a picture of a woman who was surrendering a 9mm. She hoped to use the money from the program to buy an even bigger gun. https://reason.com/blog/2018/12/19/baltimores-gun-buyback-program-is-insane She probably couldn't have gotten a bigger better deal from Eric Holder.
This is basically like treating the symptoms rather than the disease. There will be a continued demand for firearms, because there will still be those who wish to use firearms for illicit purposes.
I would hope that the city government would have been honest enough with its citizens to have an independent appraiser available to properly advise individuals who are surrendering extremely valuable firearms to find another buyer. It seems at least unethical to give someone even $500- for a WW 1 era .45 1911 or German Luger worth $10,000-. I remember reading about an elderly lady who turned in a $40,000- German StG 44 for a treacherous $100- at an earlier Buyback program. Whether it made it to a museum or the scrap pile, I don't remember. These Orwellian Buyback schemes are infamously dishonest & deserve independent supervision to protect citizens from being grossly defrauded.
The problem isn't the guns, it's the savages using them. Funny how white neighborhoods never need gun buyback programs.
hard to tell what 9mm that is looks like a low budget jamomatic jennings probably found it on her property tossed their
thiers a chrome potmetal jennings turn in, in one of the photos i see https://foxbaltimore.com/news/local...e-citys-gun-buyback-program-kicks-off#photo-5
