“I wish you guys would … have talked to us/CeaseFire about this before moving forward,” Fascitelli said in an email to King County Executive Dow Constantine and a Mayor’s Office staffer. “The overwhelming research shows that buybacks generally don’t work well and are a waste of resources and are mocked by the NRA.

“We will be lucky to get a few thousand or more guns back, … many of which don’t work too well in a country where there are almost 2 million guns,” Fascitelli continued in an email provided to seattlepi.com following a public records request. He went on to wonder why the buyback supporters “do kneejerk standalone stuff” instead of a coordinated campaign.

Responding to Fascitelli’s email – though not to the CeaseFire president directly – McGinn Chief of Staff Julie McCoy described Fascitelli’s concerns as “ridiculous” in an email to other Mayor’s Office staff.

via McGinn’s office ignored leading gun control group in buyback effort – seattlepi.com.

So you have a Gun Control group admitting that Gun Buybacks are a waste, the chief of staff for Seattle’s mayor calling them ridiculous…. and they actually have no idea how many guns are in this country.

Shall we tell Ceasefire that it is not 2 million guns but some 300+ millions in the hands of civilians in the US? You know, that is a boatload of Gift Cards right there. Make mine from Bownells or MidwayUSA.