Minnesota Gun Buyback Program Misfires

[jimnyc]

A Minnesota program to buy up guns in exchange for Visa gift cards has been less successful than anticipated. The guns collected were mostly homemade, unused or antiquated firearms rather than the street guns authorities had hoped to remove from the street.

Below, a picture of one of the guns "bought back" for $100. Photo from Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus.



There were two locations "buying back" the guns but both had to close down early when officials ran out of $25,000 in gift cards.

Apparently people participating in the buyback program were smarter than the officials running it.

One anonymous gun owner told WCCO he received $200 in gift cards that he planned to use to buy a new firearm. That man said he didn’t think the program was serving its intended purpose.

“I just don’t feel that a criminal is going to come up to a fire department with a bunch of police around it and turn in a gun,” he said.

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[Kathianne]

and those gift cards are taxpayer dollars. Genius.

[crin63]

What they do here is take in junk guns for exchange. Guys will start looking for broken and junk guns they can pick up for $25 so they can make enough money to go buy a new gun.

Some of my friends who have FFL's set up tables down the street from the event with signs paying more the guns. They typically pick up about 7 or 8 guns.