I would say the success may be quantitative, in terms of the number of guns turned in. That may have made some tangible difference in collecting guns that otherwise were unsafely stored in attics or behind walls in the basement, but when it comes to the use of criminal handguns and the proliferation of handguns, that is not where the successes came from. It's not from that kind of buyback program.
The buyback program, frankly, was for the most part people turning in guns that were never going to be part of the criminal element to begin with.