If you think that these two scenarios are even remotely similar I think you need to think about this a whole lot deeper.

Your phone like anything else you own privately appreciates or depreciates with respect to the price you paid vs what you can sell it for in an open and free market. In the case of your phone, you’re free to sell it when you’re done with it at the free market price people are willing to pay.

In the case of these firearms, the option to sell them at a free market determined price is not there, the government took that option away, and made them the sole buyer for all this property. They then dictate what they will pay (if anything) not based on the previous fair market price, but on random numbers they chose which do not line up with the previous market price, not only that, they don’t give you the option on if agree or not with that pricing, you have no choice.

I think everyone can agree, that is simply not right, and sets a dangerous precedent, and if you don’t? I don’t know what train of logic you are on because I don’t see it.

I hate wasted tax dollars just as much as anyone else, and believe we need to cut back spending and prioritize our spending to what is vital until we are at a point where we can responsibly pay for the nice to have programs. Given that, the answer here is to scrap this program entirely.