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Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
14. Dealing in firearms without a license is a federal felony
Wed Aug 24, 2016, 11:04 PM
Aug 2016

And a business that is receiving firearms in exchange for money or goods- even pizza- is clearly doing that.

Gun buy backs are a collassal waste that generally only give criminals a way to ditch crime guns without them coming back to them, let people dump trash guns that don't work, or end up badly ripping off people who don't know better by giving them pennies on the dollar for guns worth far more if they took them to a legitimate dealer- usually ripping off poor people who really could have used the money.

Plus, give how few firearms are ever used in a crime the number of guns sheer number that would have to be bought back before you statistically prevent one crime would be a HUGE number, making the cost one of the worst possible ways to spend money to prevent crime.

All gun buy backs do is make people who can't do math or understand statistics wrongfully think they are doing accomplishing anything and give politicians meaningless photo ops to act like they are doing something.

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