Last week I had three children - two boys and a girl. As of yesterday, I have a fourth child. At the Central Florida Gun Show, I bought a S&W M&P 40c. She comes home on Thursday. I am a proud pappa.

a little Rush Limbaugh. How can you honestly agree that by taking guns of the street won't save one life? Concerning your "Statistically" comment...as Mark Twain said, "There are three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." and, "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." If you are so smart why aren't you running the world?

I had a couple of guns that I couldn't even get $50 on trade in so I turned them in at one of these then used the money I got as a down payment on a really nice new gun. I say keep these things going!

"Has anyone ever done a scientific study to see just how effective these guy buy-back programs are?"

We aren't talking about slavery here are we Neal? If not please use spell check.

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...

Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides,

for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.”

Jefferson (Quoting Cesare Beccaria)

A couple of years ago we reported on Britain's draconian Firearms Act of 1997, which tightened that country's already-severe gun laws and virtually disarmed the population, making armed self-defense illegal.
Now the mainstream British media is reporting a massive new wave of crime, including gun crimes.

On January 18, BBC News Online reported "a huge surge in muggings": "The figures for recorded offenses, a blow to the government's anti-crime crusade, show the first rise in England and Wales for six years. The number of robberies - most of them muggings - increased by 19% in the year to September 1999 compared with a fall of nearly 6% over the previous 12 months."

The headline for a January 16 London Times article was: "Killings Rise As 3 Million Illegal Guns Flood Britain."

Total crime in London rose by 22% for the year September 1998-2006, and armed crime rose 10%. Gun prohibition has also created a massive new black market smuggling in powerful guns for criminals.

The January 14th Manchester Guardian reported that city is now being called "Gunchester."

Police -- who are usually unarmed -- report some gangs are now armed with fully automatic weapons and that guns are "almost a fashion accessory" among young street criminals.

The government's response? Plans being discussed include: further increasing penalties for gun possession; cracking down on drugs; creating a national DNA database of both innocent and convicted citizens;

and restricting knives and air guns.

And we seen the increase of knife fatalities among teens in Britain.

I participated in one of these programs once. Got $150 for a broken .25 and used the money to help buy a really nice S&W .357.

Hi Neal,

I just love the whole concept of "gun buy-backs." The term itself is fallacious. For the government to buy a gun back, they would have first had to sell the gun. Does this mean that the people behind these things are saying that it was the government that sold these guns in the first place? Does this constitute an "Oops!" where the government is admitting that it shouldn't have sold the guns to criminals in the first place?

Of course not. No government agency sold guns (for the most part), but I think that what they're trying to do with the language is impart to the fuzzy minded liberals that guns are like your money, and that ALL guns (like your money) really belong to the government, and they're just letting you keep some of it for a little while, until they decide that they could do better things with your guns (and your money) than you can.

Mark
Lee's Summit, MO