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Sir, why would selling LEGAL guns acquired through a buyback program to legitimate dealers be an EVIL move? It seems to me that this would be a most respectable way of funding these programs while still removing unwanted weapons. The only ILLEGAL guns most of these things draw are guns stolen simply to get the buy back money, or a wartime keepsake. Ask any of the buybacks how many machine guns or actual heavy weapons they have recovered, and I am betting those numbers will be very low. They do get a LOT of handguns that were legally acquired by a family member somewhere along the line, as well as the occasional very valuable antique. When they are required to destroy ALL seized weapons, that puts some keepsakes in the same category as a saturday night special.