I love this (mild language warning at the link) for so many reasons:
Police
officers in Seattle, Washington held their first gun buyback
program in 20 years this weekend, underneath interstate 5, and soon found
that private gun collectors were working the large crowd as little makeshift gun
shows began dotting the parking lot and sidewalks. Some even had “cash for guns” signs prominently
displayed.
I love that an anti-gun plan did not work out quite as planned,
that it resulted in an impromptu GUN SHOW in Seattle of all places.
I like the demonstration of how the free markets work better for everyone than government substitutes. Gun collectors got
guns. Gun sellers got more
than $100 to $200 “chump cards” (or IOUs when those ran out) and got to get out
of a long buy-back line. As one
buyer said, “Why not offer them cash
versus a gift card? I’m still taking the guns off the streets; they’re
just going in my safe.”
Indeed.
(For those who are wondering, the
all caps “GUN SHOW” is a tip of the hat to those wonderful GUN SHOW billboards
we see sometimes. . . here in flyover country, not in Seattle.)
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