Harris County will spend $1.1 million to hold eight gun buyback events, distributing up...
Police officers secure a gun during a gun buy-back, Saturday, July 30, 2022 at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church in Houston.distributing up to 4,000 gift cards to gun owners who voluntarily surrender their firearms.with a line of cars stretching two miles.
"If your objective is to take crime guns off the streets, they're not effective at all," Lawrence said."Criminals don't tend to sell the tools of their trade for a couple hundred bucks. If your objective is to take cheap, broken guns off the streets, then they're probably pretty effective. People will do that all day long."
The county will exclude ghost guns from its buyback, as well. County officials did not specify when the buyback events would be scheduled. "I'm not sure how you do an anonymous gun buyback when you're a governmental entity and you're supposed to be trying to trace the source of these guns,” he said. “But let's assume that they're telling the truth that they're anonymous. Criminals don't trust that."
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