streets too today a military shoulder fired rocket launcher was turned into a gun buyback in trent new jersey and yesterday at a buy back in seattle police acquired a surface to air missile launcher that first police noticed the owner was trying to sell it to somebody else for one hundred dollars they don't know how such weaponry was acquired in the first place. and a gun buyback program in los angeles last month nabbed anti-tank rocket launchers as well now of course this sort of weaponry is already illegal and the vast majority of guns turned into buyback programs are perfectly legal handguns perfectly legal handguns that are not the focus of any sort of gun control debate here in washington d.c. at all that debate is focused on assault weapons and high capacity magazines no one seems eager to talk about the real weapons behind most gun deaths in america handguns more than six thousand people are killed by handguns every single year and as data from the f.b.i. shows seventy two percent of all firearm related homicides were result of a handgun but the supreme court has ruled that handguns ar