Data Shows Gun ‘Buybacks’ Waste Tax Dollars, are Ineffective at Reducing Crime, Suicides…So Why Do So Many Cities Still Run Them?

By Salam Fatohi

Recently, Pew Charitable Trusts explored gun buyback programs and their ability to reduce crime. A “gun buyback program,” or GBP, is a local government program that purchases unwanted firearms. The premise that the government is purchasing “back” privately-owned firearms is nonsense because the government never owned them in the first place.

Firearm manufacturers and importers are the point of origin for the vast majority of firearms in the United States.

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