I turned in my Glock 17, a Colt M1911, a Smith & Wesson Model 686 and an Sig Sauer P320, and I received a library card, a voucher for a florist and a handshake. The Colt was later used in a bank robbery, I got interviewed by the police four times.
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I have to rewrite this because Lemmy tossed my comment, links are not accepted in my comments for some reason.
Australia implemented a gun ban and buyback program in 1996 which saw decreases in gun violence, suicides, and mass shootings. This was following a mass shooting in Tasmania.
Since these were already trending downward, some claim the program had no effect. But they collected over 650k guns and IMO this helped the stats fall further. https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/1996-national-firearms-agreement.html
Another buyback program started last year because of a terrorist attack on Bondi Beach. This program is off to a rocky start with a lot of resistance, but it's only been a few months since they started implementing it.
You don't specify where in the world you mean. I've got 15 minutes to spare on the toilet so I'll just answer for some place:
In Sweden they proposed recovation of granted licenses and a forced buyback of AR-15. They had to change it to a voluntary buyback. I belive the justice department said it would most likely be found unconstitutional.
Generally civilian legal weapons are not used in crime, organised or not. They are also not stolen and then used in any significant numbers. It's simply easier and cheaper to buy already illegal guns (or bombs, they are the latest fashion in the current gang wars).
Over all it turned out as political showing of "we do something about the problem" that did nothing about the problem and would not have done anything about the problem.
In Canada I believe you just get given cash but nearly all of our gun violence is done with illegally smuggled guns from the USA (maybe we need a border wall? 🙂) so it doesn't have a huge effect on it. We generally have sane laws regarding firearms so gun violence is relatively low already though.
In 2023, half (49%) of firearm-related violent crime involved the presence of a handgun, followed by a firearm-like weapon or an unknown type of firearm (31%), a rifle or shotgun (15%) and a fully automatic or sawed-off shotgun (4.7%). In the provinces, handguns were most common in urban areas while rifles or shotguns, and firearm-like weapons or unknown types of firearms, were more common in rural areas.
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2025001/article/00002-eng.htm
I wonder where all those hans guns keep coming from.
Horribly in wny. More guns got stolen but even the ones stolen didnt offset the amount of useless antique guns that got traded in for the same cash as an AR. There is a reason you can not get any statistics from NY on the SAFE act even with FOIL requests.
The only thing any of the gun buybacks I've been to in the Northeast ever accomplished was letting collector's know where they could buy guns for cheap. The state never offers full value, it's always like, $100 and a gift card, so collectors would just go up and down the line offering more than the government. I picked up my shotgun and Remington 700 cheap as hell out of a gun buyback line.
Given that a lot of guns turned in to buyback programs have been inoperable... No. Also, there was at least once case of a guy printing a lot of pistol frames--and for most pistols, the frame is legally the firearm--and then turning them in for cash. The filament for the printer cost far less than the cash he received for each one, so he made a pretty significant profit.
It made no positive change in the surplus of weapons on the street. The only people that turned them in were people that would have never used them in the first place and many people in the deep red areas, like where I lived actually went out and bought more guns because they saw it as the beginning of forcefully taking their guns from them.
I would suspect that the only people that benefited from the program was the weapon industry and might have even helped get the program in place.
In what country ?
USA did not know other countries tried it.