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fescuerescue

(4,448 posts)
Sun Feb 18, 2018, 12:02 AM Feb 2018

How about a -real- buyback. Mandatory, say $10,000 per AR-15 [View all]

Make it a carrot and stick.

$10,000 cash, tax free per weapon if you turn it in.
If caught with it, 10 years in jail.

While this would be expensive, this would be a MASSIVE economic boost and solve the gun problem at the same time.

Those kinda of numbers - would get the gunners attention and cooperation (for the most part)

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Why? Gun-humpers invested in these rifles, and their investment goes bad. A big ZERO Hoyt Feb 2018 #1
This. Fuck them. samir.g Feb 2018 #3
Just how many of the 80 million gun owners are "murderous fools"? EX500rider Feb 2018 #19
It's not about reward. It's about practicality fescuerescue Feb 2018 #8
When they "privatized" gold they paid people market value and confiscated what people tried to hide TeamPooka Feb 2018 #12
this TeamPooka Feb 2018 #11
Make it illegal to transport them on any public property. Girard442 Feb 2018 #2
Guns are already illegal on school property, won't help this case at all. Wiseman32218 Feb 2018 #21
Nice idea GP6971 Feb 2018 #4
Costly chumpchange Feb 2018 #5
How much do they cost in the first place? PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #6
The money isn't the point. fescuerescue Feb 2018 #14
Unfortunately, the money is the point. PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #16
Are you going to personally buy them up and destroy them ? MichMan Feb 2018 #17
Well I have a hard time finding a sitter for the kids fescuerescue Feb 2018 #20
How did Australia manage to unarm their citizens Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #7
Fuck those micro-cocked losers Retrotech Feb 2018 #9
I assume you mean $10,000 fine if you dont turn them in? Totally agree! Canoe52 Feb 2018 #15
What good would that do? EX500rider Feb 2018 #10
Include those two fescuerescue Feb 2018 #13
Terminology is what screwed the 1994 AWB NickB79 Feb 2018 #18
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