Confiscated Firearms
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fatcat3
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I would buy a confiscated gun depending on why it was confiscated. Used in a crime, killed someone. yup. Taken because of "red flag" or a change in the law for certain people, not a snowballs chance in hell. Much like buying TSA confiscated knives, I don't buy stolen property.
1 million a day? Gotta take a breath here, we’re not losing 365 million people a year. Someone’s imagination got hyperactive on that one!!
'79 Magnum GT
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Nancy Pelosi said that, just repeating what she said. She also said that she has seen bullets implode. We all know who said taking out a lung.1 million a day? Gotta take a breath here, we’re not losing 365 million people a year. Someone’s imagination got hyperactive on that one!!
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The PD here puts seized guns in their "reference collection" presumably for the cops to study how to unload the next time they grab one. Uninteresting guns and duplicates are probably scrapped, definitely not sold to put their criminal habits back "on the street".
The outfit I worked for (TVA) had an amazing assortment of guns, some used for security back when it was a defense installation, others seized from hunters encroaching on the government reservation. They traded them all in on a uniform arsenal. Wish I had bought that $600 Reising Gun when it came on the retail market.
The outfit I worked for (TVA) had an amazing assortment of guns, some used for security back when it was a defense installation, others seized from hunters encroaching on the government reservation. They traded them all in on a uniform arsenal. Wish I had bought that $600 Reising Gun when it came on the retail market.
My all time favorite is CA state senator Kevin De Leon.
"This is a ghost gun. This right here has the ability with a 30-caliber clip to disperse with 30 bullets within half a second. 30 magazine clip within half a second,” he said.
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I am a retired cop from NC. I have struggled with this same topic my entire career. Here, what a depart does with "evidence guns" is subject to anyone in authority making the decision. Our SO has sold evidence guns or traded them as long as I can remember. My PD was a different story. We were selling them or trading them to FFL's when I started. Over the years it changed with the wind. The chief, major, city manager, city attorney, any judge, the governor, SBI Director..... could change it at any time. Our admin decided to destroy all of them. At one time we were the local ATF firearms test agency. We test fired and entered bullets and chasing into the ballistics computer. We asked if we could keep certain magazines like the S&W's we a mag safety. Our attorney said absolutely not. Long winded again but that's the whole 9 yards.
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In MS seized guns can not be destroyed. The only way for a dept. to get rid of them is to sell them to a FFL. I've bought quite a few guns from a local police supply store that bids on lots from various departments. In the lot there may be rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers. Some are nice guns and some are parts/junk guns.
New Mexico requires state museums to get a list in the event there is a firearm of historical value - the rest get destroyed.
target tech
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If anyone is from Pittsburgh, and remembers the PGCA shows in Monroeville back in the 80’s. There was a guy there that was from Michigan that sold gun parts, nice stuff, all from torn apart police confiscation guns. He was somehow involved with the disassembly and destruction of the S/N parts. He got busted by the Feds when they got a search warrant for his vacation place upstate. He was helping himself to a few really nice, rare examples. That is one of the reasons everything goes in the melting pot now.
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As ever, one idiot wrecks a working system for everyone.
I've watched numerous online sales performed by one auction house in AZ where hundreds of seized guns were sold along with PD surplus. Word got around too quick and pretty soon there were no bargains to be had, so I stopped looking for guns there. I have scored some cheap mags on occasion, though.
Why don't we demand that cars involved in Drunk driving go to the crusher?
It makes every bit as much sense as destroying a gun involved in an illegal ac
It makes every bit as much sense as destroying a gun involved in an illegal ac
Jim Watson
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Back when gun shows were worth the trip, there was a table of parts sets in baggies.
I see two scenarios.
You are willing to buy a whole set of parts to get one essential item.
You think you can find a frame to assemble them back into a gun.
I see two scenarios.
You are willing to buy a whole set of parts to get one essential item.
You think you can find a frame to assemble them back into a gun.
I have a fair collection of parts. I have bought them off Ebay, here and a few other spots. I have never bought one of the "parts kits", because for the price I might as well buy a junker off Center fire systems although right now they haven't got much inventory. But with some patience just about anything you want will show up on Ebay for a reasonable amount
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finding a stripped frame? Good Luck...
Apparently "back in the day" there wasn't a lot of emphasis on the "chain of custody"!
I heard of a Chief that retired and took with him a small collection of really nice handguns that were supposed to have been destroyed. He was charged with harboring contraband and theft under color of authority.
Sounds like the sensible method. If the FFL cannot sell a particular gun in one of the lots because it’s total junk, it’s his responsibility to do whatever he chooses to do with it - destruction and/or parting out. Every state should be doing this.
Fortunately, our state legislators passed a law that pretty much directs all LE agencies to turn in all confiscated firearms and they sell them every so often at public auction.
The only excpetions are guns the agency can use to arm officers or train officers.
I have attended some of the auctions but did not take note of what happened to the junk (it was likely sold in lots for spare parts).
Funny story, our state's big city had a gun buy-back - I think it was for $50 - our police are often pretty pro-gun, and they had a favorite police supply store so they suggested to the locals people go down there and buy a cheap pistol (which the owner usually didn't sell because they were worthless) for $25 and then bring it down and turn in it for $50 - they did that repeatedly. I have friends on the force they estimated about have the guns bought back wouldn't even fire.
In fact the Mayor picked out a pistol - a 1934 Beretta that did not have a barrel (easy to see on that model) and held it up for the TV crew and said "Look we got this 'dangerous' handgun off the street!"
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The only excpetions are guns the agency can use to arm officers or train officers.
I have attended some of the auctions but did not take note of what happened to the junk (it was likely sold in lots for spare parts).
Funny story, our state's big city had a gun buy-back - I think it was for $50 - our police are often pretty pro-gun, and they had a favorite police supply store so they suggested to the locals people go down there and buy a cheap pistol (which the owner usually didn't sell because they were worthless) for $25 and then bring it down and turn in it for $50 - they did that repeatedly. I have friends on the force they estimated about have the guns bought back wouldn't even fire.
In fact the Mayor picked out a pistol - a 1934 Beretta that did not have a barrel (easy to see on that model) and held it up for the TV crew and said "Look we got this 'dangerous' handgun off the street!"
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