Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group

Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by semi-extrinsic on Monday October 19, 2015 @04:56PM (#10415678)

Your comment leads me to believe you're taking issue with the fact that weapons are made illegal, not with the actual buyback? If you agree that weapon category X (for argument's sake, let's say grenade launchers) should be made illegal, what reason would you have for opposing mandatory buyback of these now-illegal weapons? (The financial compensation in question was on average ~$550 per gun.)

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by hga on Monday October 19, 2015 @05:37PM (#10415967)

Yes, of course. If no coercion is involved and someone is stupid enough to exchange a valuable item for a pittance, who am I to stand in their way?

One reason for the general failure of gun buybacks in the US is two responses from the gun savvy:

1) Go back a bit from the front of the line, and if you see a valuable weapon held by a noob (vs. a likely crime weapon), buy it on the spot for a lot more than what's being offered.

2) Gather up clunker weapons with values much less than the $100 or whatever they're offering and make out like a bandit.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by forrestthewoods on Monday October 19, 2015 @08:07PM (#10416663)

Lots of good deal to be had at gun buy backs! Like you said. Either selling junkers for good cash or buying good guns at a good price. It's win/win!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/01/24/firearms-enthusia...

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by 15155 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @12:07AM (#10417377)

1) Unless you hold an FFL, this is unfortunately becoming illegal in some infringed-upon jurisdictions.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by hga on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:18AM (#10418496)

Bleah.

As far as the feds are concerned, as long as you're not "in the business", you're OK, and these buybacks tend to be rare and one offs. In practice and from their viewpoint, the first case of valuable guns is OK because there don't tend to be too many of them and there can be many different people doing this for any one buyback, in the latter case it tends to be FFLs who play that game since they can easily have a collection of junker guns they've bought but that didn't sell.

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Re:Prohibition was primarily the work of one pressure group by 15155 on Tuesday October 20, 2015 @07:47AM (#10418589)

I'm speaking specifically about states regulating private sales.

In some non-free states, you cannot legally transfer your property to another private individual.

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