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I have been listening with heightened interest about the idea from Kent County Commissioner Paul Mayhue about a gun buyback. In today's Grand Rapids Press there is a whole article about the proposed program debating whether or not it is a good idea. This got me interested in knowing what has been tried before and if the results have been positive or not.

I started with a Google News Search with just the keywords "gun buyback", this provided me with 162 news items about gun buyback programs.

Then I searched the librarys catalog and there was an item at the Grand Rapids Main Library called Evaluating gun policy : effects on crime and violence by the Brookings Institution from 2003 with a whole chapter on the effects of the gun buyback program in Australia.

I finally looked in the library database Infotrac and found numerous articles on similar programs. If you try this from home just make sure you have a library card and then go into the section called "General Reference Center". Once there just type in a search with the term "gun buyback".