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by zanderz 1358 days ago
A shoulder mounted anti-tank rocket was once turned over at a gun buyback in San Francisco: https://abc7news.com/san-francisco-gun-buyback-bazooka-guns/... I think it is probably worth a lot of taxpayer money to get that off the streets. More broadly, without wading into 2nd amendment arguments and just viewed as a public health issue, it seems possible that fewer guns in the general population equals fewer gun deaths. Whether these buybacks make any dent at all is a different question - one that would likely be easier to answer if political pressure hadn't halted government studies of gun safety https://www.npr.org/2018/04/05/599773911/how-the-nra-worked-...
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> I think it is probably worth a lot of taxpayer money to get that off the streets.

That AT4 is a single-shot disposable weapon, cannot be reloaded, and is not reusable.