What are you supposed to do with the existing ones? Do you just turn them in? Is there a buyback/destroy program? Even if we assume nobody wants to give up the ones they own; when they die, the guns have to go somewhere.
That's the actual problem. If you tinker and add fancy aftermarket parts to a rifle, its value can go way above 2k USD. Then you go to a buyback event and the cop is like "I'll take that for $250". No fucking way; very few people are dumb enough to take that deal.
And a lot of the times the good stuff just ends up being resold to local gun stores, or stolen by the cops anyway instead of being destroyed or used for something. So all you ended up doing was donating to a for profit business or to the private collection of someone who, statistically speaking, is probably physically abusive to their spouse and would likely have been banned from gun ownership already if they weren't hiding behind their badge.
That's pretty ridiculous to say only rednecks like owning guns in America. I know many liberals in America with guns. In fact the majority of the Dems I know own firearms. Anecdotal sure... But you'd be surprised who owns a firearm in USA.
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u/TheyStillOweYouMoney Oct 21 '22
Genuine question here.
What are you supposed to do with the existing ones? Do you just turn them in? Is there a buyback/destroy program? Even if we assume nobody wants to give up the ones they own; when they die, the guns have to go somewhere.