Tokuda’s bill may actually have the opposite effect on “gun buy back programs” across the country. Law enforcement (LE) which run these programs, don’t destroy the firearms, LE procures businesses to do that. Tokuda’s bill targets those businesses (which are bonded by LE) that will specifically destroy the part that makes a firearm a firearm (usually the action/receiver) and then the business make a profit by selling the remaining parts, ie. triggers, firing pins, barrels, etc. (not the part that makes a firearm a firearm) on the secondary market. If these businesses can’t turn a profit, they won’t process the firearms from LE and thus LE now won’t have anywhere to turn over the firearms collected from these programs. And so these “gun buy back programs” then go bye-bye!