Melting guns
What's the point why not sell them and gain a profit instead of paying to have them melted. I am aware that not all states do this but at least a few do.
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Its just a stupid publicity stunt to make the public think that the police are capable of taking weapons away from the bad guys.
But hey, if all they're melting down are guns like Raven, Davis, Jennings, etc. etc., more power to em. They're a waste of perfectly good zinc alloy [;)]0 -
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Actually, IIRC New Orleans did just that several years ago, sold them off to Century arms, Century then auctioned them off, I bought about a dozen ravens for $8-$9 ea. sold them for between $30-$40 ea.
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There is a steel mill west of here that has melted down some of the prettiest guns on this planet. The law enforcement agencies that bring them there wait untill they hit the kettle before leaving. If you think they are just melting Ravens and SKS's, your mistaken.
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I heard of a collection of guns that was melted down by a widow that could have sold for over a million dollars. German Lugers, Colts, Anshultz, hundreds of guns all collector grade....melted at ACIPCO (Alabama Cast Iron Pipe Co.) 0 -
The only melting I'll be doing is if I run too many magizines through my ARs and melt the barrell.[:D] 0 -
"But hey, if all they're melting down are guns like Raven, Davis, Jennings, etc. etc., more power to em. They're a waste of perfectly good zinc alloy "
So you think that poor people have no right to keep and bear arms?? They likely live in a neighborhood where self protection is a high priority[:(!]0 -
"But hey, if all they're melting down are guns like Raven, Davis, Jennings, etc. etc., more power to em. They're a waste of perfectly good zinc alloy "
So you think that poor people have no right to keep and bear arms?? They likely live in a neighborhood where self protection is a high priority[:(!]0 -
There was a buy back in a city near where I live a few years ago. They made a real big deal about it in the media. They showed the guns they were melting down. Mostly there were cheap junk handguns and rifles. But there were also some 1911's, Hi-Powers, S&W, Colt and other quality firearms.
The person that organized it was voted out of office the next election as I recall.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Locust Fork
I heard of a collection of guns that was melted down by a widow that could have sold for over a million dollars. German Lugers, Colts, Anshultz, hundreds of guns all collector grade....melted at ACIPCO (Alabama Cast Iron Pipe Co.)
I was listening to the G. Gordon Liddy Radio program a few years ago (Is he on anymore?) and the discussion was the Washington DC gun buyback program.
A caller who claimed to be a DC police officer said that many elderly DC rsidents had turned in highly valueable cap & ball Colts and other Civil War vintage guns. As well as Lugers etc. But these didn't get detroyed.They were picked thru, divided up and kept by the upper level police dept. officials.
I also used to work as "Carman" (Railroad car maintenence) for a midwest railroad. We had several hopper cars come in that had just been off loaded at the scrap depot of a local foundry, that contained shredded gunparts. THere were still many parts that the magnet cranes didn't pick up. And I would sort thru them and find useable parts that I sold to gunshow parts vendors by the box full.0 -
If it's worth saying...
It's worth saying twice.
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If it's worth saying...
It's worth saying twice.
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Large gunstores profit from turning in unsaleable junk firearms, for a profit, it's a huge unworkable joke. 0
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