> If you want to stop that, pay fair market value for the guns. Homemade guns have essentially zero market value, so stop paying people to make them. this appr

> If you want to stop that, pay fair market value for the guns. Homemade guns have essentially zero market value, so stop paying people to make them. this approach also has issues. if someone wants to sell a gun for fair market value, they don't need the state as a counterparty. unless of course they don't legally own the gun, in which case the "fair market value" is zero. I guess you could appraise the gun as if it were legal, but then what if the person doesn't like the offer? are they expected to trust that there will be no repercussions for walking back out holding all the evidence needed to charge them with a felony? seems to me the best and simplest approach is an amnesty box. getting to walk away without risk of prosecution should be enough of a reward for turning in a hot gun. and if the gun is in fact legally owned, why does the state want to take it off their hands so badly?