Maine Town Wants To Turn Guns Into Garden Tools

By Tom Knighton

NYPD via AP

Through the years, we’ve spent a lot of time blasting the concept of gun buyback programs. Why? Easy, because they’re stupid.

About all they do is remove used guns from circulation, attracting law-abiding citizens who somehow think it’s their civic duty to dispose of their guns in this manner rather than criminals who are the real problem. If a criminal does partake of this kind of thing, they do so in order to dispose of guns in a manner that they can’t be linked back to them.

In other words, it’s a way they can not just dump a gun but get a little something back for it. It sure beats throwing it in a river.

Now, it seems nine police departments in Maine are joining in the stupid.

Nine police departments in southern Maine will hold “gun give back” events next month during which residents can turn in unwanted firearms that will be used to make gardening tools.

Modeled after prescription drug disposal events that have become increasingly popular in Maine, the gun give back program will allow residents to anonymously hand over guns to police for safe disposal. The firearms will then be donated to an organization that …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms