New Zealand gun buyback

Look at the math in the US. 400-500 million firearms. $1K each. That is before the cost of setting up and administering the program, which could nearly double the cost.

You ready to pay that amount?

They have already passed the law making it illegal to own or sell one of these firearms.

Since you can't sell it, the (legal) market value is zero.

All (legal) gun owners have to register their firearms, so the government already knows if you have a newly illegal firearm or not. They have little choice other than to turn it over and take whatever the government gives them for it, or break the law.

In this case they declared a top line and set prices well below prior market value.

The left thinks it is just as easy as passing some new laws.

It isn't.

They left must know that there are a lot of firearms owners out there who have never broken the current firearms laws but who will never willingly give up their guns.

To put it bluntly, these currently law abiding citizens are willing to kill and die to maintain their 2A constitutional rights.
There are many, many, citizens who are now and will be willing to die to protect their constitutional rights.

SO,

The pertinent question is and has been,

How many on the left are willing to die for their political ideals that include depriving good citizens of their constitutional rights?

So, lefty, step right on up and be counted as willing to die for your ideals and beliefs.

Unlike the Lefty wishful view of gun owners ... most are not overweight slobs, living in Mom's basement (projection?)

Many of those gun owners are former military and know how to use the weapons they trained on and that many of us fought with.

I let a WW II Veteran use my Garand at the range earlier last summer. Hadn't touched one since 1946. In 3 or 4 shots he was smiling and reloading new clips like riding a bicycle.

I have no doubt he and many others like him would be "less than enthusiastic" about some government weasel demanding his personal property.

Well over a hundred million gun owners in our nation have never committed a dangerous or illegal act with their firearms. Not one of their firearms have killed as many people as ted kenndys car did.

Just pointing out the way they did it, they destroyed the market value first - then offered a buyback.

...then giving a pitiable amount for it is unconditional in the USA. And the owners in NZ could just hide some of their guns off property and say they were stolen the day before when they come to confiscate them. How will the government probe them wrong? Innocent until proven guilty.

Sure, someone could hide the firearms and lie about it. However that will make them a criminal - perhaps unproven, but a criminal none the less.

...if the government offers $200 for $1,000 guns or zero after a period of time, most won’t turn them in and then there will be a lot of dead cops and gun owners when the shoot outs begin over confiscation.

And a lot of sanctuaries, as red states will follow the blue state idea of ignoring laws they don’t like and legalize those guns in their state and refuse to allow cops to enforce it.

Different rules, different mentality.

Of course, if you read the rant there, you would be facing ten years in prison.

Hong Kong too

he'll just have to move to New Zealand!!!

LOL @ poor Lefty!!!

“Biden Calls For Federal Gun Buyback Program, Making Assault Weapons "Illegal, Period"
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2019/08/06/biden_calls_for_gun_buyback_program_making_assault_weapons_illegal_period.html
“2020 Dems embrace federal gun buyback program in wake of mass shootings“
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2020-dems-split-on-gun-buyback-idea-in-wake-of-mass-shootings

“San Diego gun buyback so popular, police ran out of money“
https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/public-safety/sd-me-gun-buyback-20171202-story.html

Scores of American cities have had gun buybacks.

and the locality couldnt do shit about it

He also made a few zip guns and turned them in for cash for ammo

I know, it was only 6 years ago, but those of us who own guns and believe in the provisions of the 2nd Amendment know that we've only grown in strength

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/two-colorado-lawmakers-who-backed-strict-gun-control-laws-ousted-flna8C11121858

And, if you truly believe that your message is a winner, don't get angry when you get laughed off the forum (again) after the 2020 elections.

Next week it's the NZ navy's turn.

“Nearly 300,000 licensed firearm owners own and use New Zealand's estimated 1.5 million firearms. Gun licenses are issued at the discretion of the police provided they consider the person to be of good standing, and without criminal, psychiatric or drug issues; as well as meeting other conditions such as having suitable storage facilities. Several different categories of license are permitted, with the most common, "A Category", permitting access to sporting configuration rifles and shotguns.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_New_Zealand#Arms_Amendment_Bills_2_and_3_(1999_to_2012)

New Zealand has same the population as the Phoenix, Arizona metropolitan area.

How many others are you willing to throw away on an emotional whim?

New Zealand never owned the guns to “buy them back”.

But “Buyback” sounds better than “take what we give you and shut up” peasant.

take this shit deal or we make you a felon , shoot your wife holding your kid. Funny how the anti folks will give up the 2nd and 4th.

They've made it very clear that they consider any speech that they don't like as "Hate speech" and want to shut it down ASAP.

Plus, they want to declare the NRA and any other groups they disapprove of as "Terrorists".

If Hillary would have gotten in, we'd already have two more RBGs on SCOTUS to rule that way.