What? $100??! That’s it? Since most handguns sell for much more than that, an enterprising FFL should set up shop right outside and offer $125 in cash to buy the guns – they’d make a killing!

You forgot the “up to” part of that phrase!

what a scam

In the histroy of gun buy backs no real criminal has ever turned in a gun. Old ladies turning in the trophy gun their now dead husbund brought home from WWII has no effect on crime. These guns are not off the street, they are out of some grandmothers attic. Many of them do not even work. This is another government scam. The purpose is to allow mayors and police chiefs to pretend that they are doing something about crime which they seem unable to control in any meaningful way. If this is about “saving even one life,” then ban cars. That would, with out question save 50,000 American lives a year. But cars have a legitimate use, so do guns and gun not car ownership is protected by the Constitution. The far left is laughing at those who would believe that these buy back programs will effect crime or criminals. The real goal here is to cause the public to associate gun ownership with crime and accidents and give government official a photo op.

Crime notwithstanding, we got $100 in Ralph’s gift cards for my mom-in-law’s 30 year old 22 handgun. So that’s cool. The thing probably was worth about $50.

Yes, but, as you know, for those of us, who might, ahem, prefer to keep the boom-stick concealed, as it were, if one has the preference, and might prefer (were one to carry such a thing, should one, uh, choose to) should one have the, uh, valid paper work and all, it’d be a great bargain.

If one were to choose to avail oneself of such a thing.

A gang banger can shoot up a schoolyard full of kids with his AK 47 and get a $200 Ralphs card, “No questions asked.” from the police. Stupid? Or really stupid.

quoting the LA Chief of Police: “The guns displayed today will never be stolen or used in a robbery, assault, or murder; the scope of that success can never be fully measured,”

They will also never be used to defend oneself against the criminals that still have guns! Which is going to stop an intruder faster, a 911 call to police, or a 9mm handgun?

Some enterprising criminals would do well do burgle a boatload of guns and turn them in under the “Gifts-for-Guns”, “no questions asked” program. So, instead of purportedly reducing crime (which there is and will be no proof that ever happens), we could actually see crime spike!

Good job Mayor Villaraigosa and Chief Beck.