Making Money on Gun Buyback



(St. Charles, Illinois) Personally, this sounds like a government fool-the-public, sleight-of-hand scheme.

A police department in the Chicago suburbs said some of the guns obtained from a buyback program will be sold to a pair of licensed dealers.

St. Charles Police Chief James Lamkin said about 20 firearms obtained through a gun buyback program and seized by courts will be sold to the dealers, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.

"There's value in these guns," Lamkin said. "They're not illegal guns. Quite honestly, it's a bottom line for us."

Frankly, I thought gun buyback programs were intended to get rid of guns in the general population and thereby provide imaginary safety to the public. In this case, gun buyback is a profit-motivated enterprise.