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.
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.