Talk:Gun buyback program

message: The term Buyback is an insult to rational people.  Nothing is being "bought back" as it was never the government's property in the first place.  
Call it what it is: taxpayer-funded disarmament of the public for reasons of political theater.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.217.218.37 (talk) 09:07, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia Talk pages are not intended to be a forum for political grandstanding. Flanker235 (talk) 22:55, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Orwellian English

message: It's been under Wikipedia:WikiProject_Law_Enforcement/Requested_articles. It shall be improved as soon as possible. AgentFade2Black 01:21, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy delete

message: The article needs to include the UK handgun confiscation. ChrisPer (talk) 02:56, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? If it wasn't a buyback program, how is it relevant? Flanker235 (talk) 09:36, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  @ChrisPer is wrong to refer to the prohibition of handguns as a confiscation - the ban on handguns in the UK (in 1997) as well as (most) semi-auto rifles in 1988 and "rapid-firing rifles" in 2019/20 were all mandatory buybacks - the law changed, and the government paid market price for people's lawful property (unless you chose to export the firearms and sell them overseas) - because civil forfeiture isn't a thing in the UK (there is asset forfeiture, but that's for proceeds-of-crime and requires a court order - if the government wants to ban all Audi cars or all handguns, they have to pony up. They can't just arbitrarily confiscate them).Hemmers (talk) 11:47, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about the UK programs ? 

message: Evaluations of the US programs would be helpful. Are there public documents doing benefit-cost analysis?  ChrisPer (talk) 02:58, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The US gun lobby - mostly the NRA - had access to a lot of this information blocked by the Supreme Court in about 2006-2008. Flanker235 (talk) 09:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need some good references. 

message: Annual?  (per caption) Rich Farmbrough, 19:23, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: LA

message: How can you buy something back from someone if it wasn't sold by the buyer to begin with?Beancrisp (talk) 00:16, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, Wikipedia is not the place to parade a political agenda. The topic is buyback programs. Whether you agree with them or not is your perogative. Flanker235 (talk) 09:38, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The term buyback is incorrect English. 

message: In Denmark the state prosecution periodically guarantees freedom from prosecution ('frit lejde' i.e. safe passage or amnesty) for anyone to within a pre-announced period of time anonymously surrender a gun at a police station. The collected weapons are destroyed. Like other programs the motivation is that the destruction of an (illegal) weapon prevents that a crime can be committed with it. Within the month of June 2013 Danish police thus received 13481 guns, while the previous 'safe passage' action in 2009 collected 9589 guns. So maybe it could be relevant to mention that this type of program also can function with zero payment. If there is interest in this, I can add it to the article (citing sources, but maybe only in Danish). Lklundin (talk) 11:21, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buyback also works with zero payment 

message: There is no such thing as "buyback" by governments.
It is forced surrender of firearms, with some compensation for the value of the firearm.
The firearms are owned by individual citizens, not the government.
So the Government can not purchase back something it never owned in the first place. 120.159.179.136 (talk) 04:02, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Buyback"