Gun Buyback Program Runs Out of Money

Here is some irony, in New Jersey residents are only allowed to buy one handgun a month, but yet the Emanuel Christian Church in Newark was able to run a “cash for guns” program, and essentially ran out of $50,000 reports NJ.com. First, we need to ask how can a law be trusted if there are exceptions like this made?

Why should the church leaders be allowed to buy back so many guns, especially when law-abiding citizens are not allowed to do so? And second, and more importantly, isn’t this just another feel good story that will make no real difference? Again, we feel that old people turned in guns in need of money, and likely made far less than if they were able to sell those guns to collectors, dealers or hunters. But of course law-abiding citizens could only buy one gun a month, so that made that fact a moot point. And finally, we’ll ask again (and never will stop asking), does anyone really believe that this is getting guns out of criminals’ hands and off the street?