Summary
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has launched the nationwide “Yes to Disarmament, Yes to Peace” program.
The program offers cash to citizens who anonymously surrender firearms, including $430 for revolvers, $1,200 for AK-47s, and $1,300 for machine guns.
The weapons will be destroyed.
The program, expanded from a 2019 Mexico City initiative, aims to combat violent crime, with firearms responsible for 70% of Mexico’s 31,062 homicides in 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive
This is the name for the concept which many commenters are describing
When my old man was little the local tobacco company would give you 50 penni for every rat tail you brought in.
It didn’t take long for some kid to realise the best source of rat tails was the dumpster behind the tobacco factory.
Turns in $400 AK
Buys $1,200 FN P-90
Where are you getting AKs that cheap?!
guns.com has one for $599 right now - it’s brand new.
https://www.guns.com/firearms/p/century-arms-vska-tactical-blem?i=469321
You can find these substantially cheaper used.
Yeah that’s a good deal in the US. Thanks
Mexico
The cheapest I’ve seen AK74/AK74Ms are around 14000 pesos($600), WASR and Milled AKs go for 20000($950) and up. That’s outside of a gunshop in Mexico which if you’re unfamiliar don’t carry AKs or really any semi auto rifles due to the gun control there. So those are open air grey market prices.
On the black market they’re even more expensive as they’re guaranteed to work.
Thanks for the help
Goodluck I guess?
Step 1. Buy ~$500 AR15
Step 2. Sell said AR15 for $1300 to the government
Step 3. Buy 2 ~$500 PSA AR15s
Step 4. Sell them to the government for $2600
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Step11. Buy 32 ~$500 AR15s
Step 12. Sell them to the government for $41600
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Step 25. Buy 16,384 ~$500 AR15s
Step 26. Sell them to the government for $21.3M
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Step 39. Buy 2,097,152 ~$500 AR15s
Step 40. Sell them to the government for $2.7B
…
Continue until Mexico has run out of money
You always hear about these programs creating the wrong incentives. Soon enough, it’s easier to set up an AR15 factory and just start producing them so you can sell them to the government.
Georgia had program to try to cut down on the number of wild hogs that were overpopulated. So, they paid people a price per tail. Soon enough, you had people breeding wild hogs, so they could kill them and get the bounty.
Calm down, Mr. Soros
I’ve never found a more intelligent loaf of bread
He’s certainly on the level of Bernd das brot
Step 1. Buy ~$500 AR15
From where?
If you’re in Mexico it would make more sense as the seller to sell it for the $1300.
If you’re in the states, are you going to travel to and smuggle to Mexico?
Unfortunately, you have to be a citizen to take advantage of the deal. That’s a huge paycheck for an AK though.
Unfortunately so long as they border the US guns will be widely available. One of many reasons concerns about guns entering the US from Mexico are silly
Just like with US buybacks, they will get guns that would never be used in a homicide, unless it were stolen.
What?!
You know guns last longer than people right?
Even if never sold and never stolen, they will eventually be inherited.
Like, you know great grandma didn’t really move to a farm upstate, right?
Are you saying that you believe that eventually the family heirloom gun will inevitably be passed down to a murderous Mexican?
That’s pretty racist.
Pretty much a lot of those guns are stolen.
And the same with other countries buybacks. The government gets sold a load of trashed/trashy guns, sellers get money for better guns.
I’ll pay $1400 for the machine gun. Let’s do this.
Fuck this autoplay video bullshit.
Surely they mean submachine gun? Or are there Brownings on the streets of Mexico?
what is a machine gun exactly
The term is generally considered a firearm that can fire more than one shot with a single trigger pull. Its complicated and there is more nuance, especially if you are going by ATF definitions. But overall, that’s typically what they mean.
What’s the legal difference in Mexico between an AK and a machine gun? If the $1200 is for a semi AK, it’s only an extra $100 for a select fire one?
Would be too bad if there was one or more organisations in Mexico with the means to import arms from abroad to make big bucks with this. Bonus for using the money to fund illegal operations.
Generally buyback programs are a success because they reduce the amount of guns.
Sorry you would rather pretend in some made up situation that there is an infinite amount of guns and nothing can be done to stop the unlimited flow of guns.
Gun violence in the USA increases every year. Buyback programs have been happening for how long, since the 60’s?
Tell me more about how effective they are.
Also, until the manufacturing of firearms is eliminated… yes, there is essentially an unlimited supply.
To further compound the issue; the programs we’ve had in the US are voluntary. In the USA, there are more guns than people and firearms ownership is both engrained into the culture and a part of the constitution. In the hypothetical scenario that firearms manufacture were to be ended, and buy back programs were to become mandatory; which group of people are you going to task with rounding up all of the guns?
It’s a complex problem; maybe you need a pedant to understand some of the complexities.
Aww! They’re so proud of those grandpa rifles and busted pistols!
https://www.thetrace.org/2015/07/gun-buyback-study-effectivness/
Buyback programs ended gun violence in Australia you bootlicker
Buyback programs were a piece of the Australian program; far from the whole thing. Requiring gun licenses and the creation of the firearms registry probably had more to do with it than the buyback programs.
I didn’t ask for a pedant.
Gun buyback programs remove guns from circulation which is inherently a good thing if you want gun violence to decrease.
Well you got one because the tone that you use to speak with people lets them infer that you’re a complete asshole.
Gun buyback programs on their own are incredibly expensive with almost no correlation to decreasing violence or gun crimes.
Buyback programs collect ancient, worthless and broken guns, funding people to buy better guns.
Pictured: A bunch of crappy guns. Probably a shitload of antiques getting trashed because idiots, “Less means good!”
Pro tip: Keep using “bootlicker”. It’s a simple burn that let’s everyone know you’re “right thinking” and the OP you replied to is a fascist. Gets lots up upvotes, makes you feel good.
Yeah because nobody would ever ever shoot someone with a stale gun.
You are a dumb bootlicker. It means you suck the cocks of authoritarian strong men in absence of a real ideology.
I hope one day you accidentally do mushrooms and discover self reflection.
