Economic Study Concludes There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Gun Buybacks Reduce ‘Gun Violence’

Economic Study Concludes There’s ‘No Evidence’ That Gun Buybacks Reduce ‘Gun Violence’

By John Miltimore

Shortly before Christmas in 2018, a woman named Darlene voluntarily turned in a 9mm pistol to the Baltimore Police Department. It was just one of about 500 firearms the department collected that day as part of the city’s gun buyback program, which paid citizens somewhere between $25 and $500 in exchange for their firearms and high-capacity magazines.

Darlene, however, had a confession. She was turning in her 9mm, she told a local news reporter, so she could “upgrade to a better weapon.”

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