Food for guns: It only takes one gun, one shot to destroy a family.
 

Looks like at least one party handed over a pretty nice S&W for a measly $50 in store credit.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcont....1130ece0.html

Re: Food for guns: It only takes one gun, one shot to destroy a family.
 

Pathetic. To read what these people say rationalizing their actions... just sickening.

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Officers tagged the guns and inspected them to make sure they were functioning. After putting the guns through a 20-minute inspection process, officers placed them in bins and gave the gift cards. The guns eventually will be smelted.
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Smelted, huh? Then why make sure they function?

EVENTUALLY smelted... I'll just bet they will be.

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Re: Food for guns: It only takes one gun, one shot to destroy a family.
 

Gun melting does occur. Sadly I have been a party to it. Several years ago, the local ATF office contacted the owner of my company to ask if he would allow the ATF to come in and have us melt some guns in our furnaces. He smelled some favorable publicity and agreed to it and then turned the odious task over to me (as he always does, grr!:36_1_28:)

I spoke with the ATF agent and asked a few questions about how many firearms would be involved and told him that I would personally inspect anything that went into the furnace. A day was picked and the ATF showed up with approximately 12 weapons. Most were handguns, there was 2 AK's, 1 bolt action rifle, 2 shotguns and a grenade launcher (no doubt seized from the local Hells Angels chapter! :wink:). I verified that the guns were unloaded and there was not an excess amount of oil on them. We took one of the induction furnaces up to the point where the charge was just beginning to melt and loaded them into the furnace. The ATF goons were up on the deck watching me and the furnace operator's every move. We allowed the guns to smoke off and the wood to burn and then applied more power until the guns lost shape and finally melted. When the furnace was tapped off, they were satisfied and left happy.

Just to repeat, I was an unwilling participant in this CF. I know it cost us money in lost productivity. There was no publicity, which did surprise me a bit. The ATF didn't bring in any media, which also surprised me.

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I have no doubt that guns are melted down.

I also suspect that municipalities nowadays are taking any opportunity they can to cheaply increase their resources.

The way the article was written, it gave the average reader the impression that these guns were to be taken immediately to be destroyed (thereby eliminating the "danger" for J6P). However, the use of the word "eventually" affords the collectors of these firearms a lot of leeway in regards to the future of said firearms.

I was just sayin'...

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I was thinking about having a program like that. I would just buy them cheap and keep em for myself though.

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Thats the reason I only shoot on my own property in the middle of nowhere. I'm sure a officer of some stripe would love to have my HK 91, AR or AK in his own little collection.
I would guess any real nice guns that get turned in at these things go into trunks, bags or pockets.

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That, I believe. The stuff I melted was in fairly rough shape, except for the grenade launcher, which looked OK to me, for what I know about them (next to nothing!).

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During WWII, the US destroyed more than 300,000 Japanese swords. Some of these swords were national treasures worth several million dollars in todays market.

Government makes it a point to destroy wealth.

My ancestors rode with Oliver Cromwell. They were good at it.

Sincerely,
Thomas

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I watched that video. The guy saying somthing about one gun being responsible for JFK, and one gun responsible for Reagan attempt...etc.
Why did they prosecute men for those crimes? It was obviously the guns fault.

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