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it demonstrates that the program organizers either don't understand enough about firearms to realize they would be "overpaying", or they simply don't care about
by leetcrew 4y ago
it demonstrates that the program organizers either don't understand enough about firearms to realize they would be "overpaying", or they simply don't care about wasting public funds.
it also raises doubts about the number of guns/parts that were actually removed from circulation (vs purchased/manufactured only to turn in). I recall a similar story where a guy simply bought the entire stock of cheap shotguns from a local Walmart and turned them in for $80 profit each.
- pxmpxm 4y agoThose programs are universally designed to buy votes, rather than firearms. They are wasting public funds to further their narrative that gun violence is an entirely natural phenomenon - sort of like a hurricane - where people people involved in it are universally victims of the circumstance and have no agency in the matter. It's the only explanation why presumably rational people would set up asinine-economics schemes like these: Eg offering $400 for garbage hi-point 9mms pictured that change hands for $100-200 on the black market - essentially a wellfare subsidy program for gangbangers.
- LorenPechtel 4y agoIt's all about "doing something". Whether that something is useful or not is very much of secondary importance.