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BarryLee · January 17, 2014, 09:52 AM

Atlanta just conducted a gun buyback event spending over $40,000 in a few hours. I suspect these events involve such a small number of guns that they have no real impact on the overall crime rate in a given community, but never seen any real data either way. It looks to me like it’s simply folks cleaning out the closet and turning in Granny’s old single shot shotgun or Papa’s rusty old kit gun.

Anyway, I was just curious if anyone had ever seen and real data related to the specific types of guns that are turned in?

Also, on a side note a local gun enthusiast set up a few blocks away and offered a little competition often paying more for potentially collectable firearms.

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local...program/ncrBT/

January 17, 2014, 09:52 AM	#1
BarryLee Senior Member Join Date: July 29, 2010 Location: The ATL (OTP) Posts: 3,946	Atlanta Gun Buyback Atlanta just conducted a gun buyback event spending over $40,000 in a few hours. I suspect these events involve such a small number of guns that they have no real impact on the overall crime rate in a given community, but never seen any real data either way. It looks to me like it’s simply folks cleaning out the closet and turning in Granny’s old single shot shotgun or Papa’s rusty old kit gun. Anyway, I was just curious if anyone had ever seen and real data related to the specific types of guns that are turned in? Also, on a side note a local gun enthusiast set up a few blocks away and offered a little competition often paying more for potentially collectable firearms. http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local...program/ncrBT/ __________________ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman Last edited by BarryLee; January 17, 2014 at 11:27 AM.