Keep in mind that the firearms turned in go towards some statistic of deadly weapons getting cleaned off the streets. That will surely be used agents us.
Yes they will in fact create favorable statistic's. But as the Police Sgt that was there said he's never seen a gun come to one of these events he thought was actually coming off the street. They came out of old ladies closets and the corner of the attic for the most part. or like 5 of the guns around me in line where damaged or unsafe and not worth fixing. Two Jennings .22 or .25 autos both with loose slides, A Lorcin .25 that had a cracked frame, A no name .32Long break top revolver that was rusty in the cyl and barrel, A T/C hawkin that had a rusted out barrel, A bolt action .22 the old woman said shot wildly so bad they were afraid it could hurt someone, I also saw two Cheap Saturday night special type revolvers the kind that you used to see for sale at gun shows in the 70's and 80's for under $30.00 unsafe to fire when new.
The Saturday night specials the old woman had looked similar to this fine POS
If CFO getting to tout that they got 500 (actually more like 485) dangerous weapons off the street in trade for Thousands of Dollars of gift cards so what.
So far this year The number of replacement firearms is so far past that 500 doesn't even become enough to show a percentage.
Between Jan and Nov of 2012 222,795 checks wear run through NCIS here in Oregon.
500 guns is .2% of that number. SO if we guess that half the 222,795 were new guns. We added 222,295 more then they got.
I call that a MONSTER MEGA BLOW OUT