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there are tons more but those four come to mind first
Like The Holy Bomb in Planet of the Apes:
ALL HAIL THE BOMB
Glory be to the Bomb, and to the Holy Fallout. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be. World without end. Amen.
I can see all it now...
Then they can submit a bill to ban inter-state commerce in guns 
or not. The number of guns collected at buybacks is infinitesimal compared to how many exist, so whether they're melted or sold is really irrelevant. The only meaningful benefit of a buyback is the opportunity for a person to remove a gun that they no longer want and perhaps are not able to store safely - that benefit occurs no matter what the ultimate disposition is. And there's certainly something to be said for a city making use of any available resources (i.e., surrendered or confiscated property) in the most efficient way possible.
People who are turning in firearms that they really really want destroyed will still have the option: they can take a hacksaw or a sledgehammer to the firearm, and forgo the gift certificate.
Of course, the donors for these events may really want the firearms destroyed, but I wonder if these donors can run the same sort of event without involving the police at all: collect the guns, and arrange privately to have them melted... 
is another's piece of art 
this is Jan Brewer's idea of destroyed. 
I'm sure we can accidentally lose some firing pins or bolt faces and turn them into something, though, hehe.
- And make them into office furniture!!!
K&R
The dumbest part to all this is, just about every time I see one of these buybacks when they show the pile of guns, it's always a pile of old rusted junk that nobody wants anyway. Ill maintained crap that I'd be scared to shoot, afraid they would blow up in my face. They never pay enough to get anything else so I don't know who the hell she thinks would buy all that old junk anyway? It's just typical RW posturing, another "solution in search of a problem" that these idiots are so adept at whipping up 
Most of the time, that's exactly what turns up,a bunch of old junk nobody wants anymore. Haven't been cleaned or oiled in years and half of them might not even shoot. The other half I'd be scared to shoot 
Every once in a while a valuable antique may find its way in from an unaware owner but that's the exception rather than the rule. Every time I see the "pile of guns" publicity pics from these things 90% of the guns on the table are just old crap people bring in because they are offering cash.
Arizona, Texas? 
What is wrong with 'leaders'? But the were voted in.??????
One of the most popular ways for criminals to dispose of firearms used in the commission of a crime, is community buy back programs. Not only do they get rid of incriminating evidence, but the state pays them for it. Such programs went out of style, in California, because police found that theyed been looking for 50% of the guns turned in.
If safeguards are kept in place, the state could profit from resales. Especially if some of the guns have historical or collector value.
