Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Question: Are gun buyback programs like offering... [View all]deathrind
(1,786 posts)Such as a gun buy back program cause such consternation for gun activists?
If a group (private, commercial, government) has money to offer individuals for their firearms in order to reduce the amount in circulation it is really no ones business but the group offering the money and the individual selling the gun. Yet anytime a program like this is initiated invariably gun activists bemoan and deride the effort. The same with the gun activists who threaten to burn down the store of the firearm dealer back east who wanted to add "smart guns" to his inventory for sell. It lacks common sense.
I understand the push back on a ban like the AWB and new regulations such as expanding BG checks to all sales, even pushback on ammunition capacity limits. Misguided as those are the pushback makes sense when viewed thru the lens of a borderline paranoia that bbelieves the one ban will lead to another or one new regulation will lead to more even though data does not back up that view.
But what a gun dealer wants to offer his/her customers or what a community group want to do with their money is nobody's business but theirs.