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A bag of groceries or something as a sort of gun amnesty. so if you have a gun laying around, if there's some gun in your life that for some reason you do not want, at one of these buy backs, you can hand it over to is local authorities. maybe you get something in return, maybe you don't and they just agree to take it no questions asked. but it's a way for local law enforcement to get unwanted guns off the street. the new law that's about to go into effect in north dakota, blocks local law enforcement from taking guns off the street with these kinds of programs. they are no longer allowed to d...

You hand over the gun. usually in exchange you get a smallish amount of cash or a gift card. but the larger attraction here really is that the gun gets taken off your hands and safely destroyed. in political terms, buy-backs are attractive because they're not a new law. they're not a new regulation. there is no coercion involved. they're not really even an attempt at persuasion. they're just offering people a resource to rid themselves of guns they don't want without risk in a safe, orderly way. it's a totally voluntary thing. since the mass shooting in newtown, connecticut, a month ago, buy-b...

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Wasn't a weapon involved and the weapon wasn't available to them, they probably would both be alive. >> reporter: looking at these guns you can see support to critics of the buy backs. there are guns in working order but you look at this. this supports the argument that a lot of people take junk in their basement and turn it in to get their $75 gift card. this is not part of the problem of the violence in the city of chicago. >> gregg and you are chuckling, it was dug up from somebody's backyard, from the civil war. that is exactly the point. so they give you the $75 per gun. help me understan...

Overseas. apple, google microsoft alone cold billions in cash sitting overseas stashed there to avoid a high u.s. corporate tax rate. the new law will not only lower the rate but give companies a one-time tax break to bring a billion back home. but most of it will reward shareholders. analysts predict $450 billion will be spent on stock byebac buy-backs. >> there i there is -- not incl buy-backs from slashing the corporate rate. the looming buy-back bonanza is fuelling wall street. strongest first week in more than a decade. is that right?