Police officers handed out $200 grocery store gift cards to people who turned in an automatic weapon, and $100 gift cards to those who provided a handgun, rifle or shotgun.<snip!>
At last count, the Los Angeles gun buyback had collected 1,366 firearms, including 477 handguns and 49 assault weapons, said Vicki Curry, a spokeswoman for the mayor.$200 for an "automatic" weapon? Somehow I have a hard time picturing an NFA licensee turning in a transferable $12,000 M-16 for 200 bucks at the local Ralph's. I think we can safely say that the author has no idea what they are talking about.
As to the lines stretching around the block at every location...1366 weapons in a combined statistical area of 17 million plus ain't too popular.
If you restrict your sample size to the 3.8 million residents of Los Angeles proper, it works out to about .000000028 (estimated, I'm a chef not a statistician) firearms per resident, none of which are likely to have been used in a crime.
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