Daily Times Claims 200 Guns Off the Streets

We’ve asked the question before, but once again we’ll ask whether it is really fair for the media to report that “guns were removed from the streets” as part of a police buyback? The Daily Times of Delaware County, Penn., reported “Chester gets 290 guns off streets in exchange.” But how does anyone know if any of these guns were ever actually “on the streets?”

Even the actual reporting suggests otherwise.

One person was quoted as saying, “I had these guns for a long time,” and that these items belonged to his father, while another person handed in a gun saying, “it was my aunt’s gun. She’s 97.” In the latter case we don’t have reason to believe the 97-year old “aunt” had a gun that came from the mean streets.

The question is whether a single gun was even actually removed from the streets?