Supporters of a “gun buyback” held over the weekend in Federal Way, Wash., were touting their success after spending $25,000 from the city police department’s budget to bring in guns for gift cards, and local media gave the event publicity. However, there is just one small problem nobody addressed. According to some experts, such events […]
OPINION: Time for ‘National Gun Buyback?’ Maybe Not
Writing at the Washington Monthly, Gregory Koger, a professor of political science at the University of Miami, suggests it may be time for a “national gun buyback program.” He offers a strategy, but leaves unanswered one very important question: How can the government “buy back” firearms it never owned in the first place. Koger advocates […]
Kirsten’s Coming for Your Guns…If She Gets the Chance
Democrat Presidential hopeful Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the full-flip career politician from New York who was pro-gun as a congresswoman from her district but went full throttle anti-gun when she was elected to the U.S. Senate, says she would push a “buy-back” program for so-called “assault weapons” and for felony charges against those who refused […]