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Selling to the public wasn't going to happen by a long shot.
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"...firearms melted..."
“They will not be used to commit a crime or used to harm our residents.”
What if the rebar is used as a weapon?
Lol! Lets see there were 1,901,768 guns sold in the last 30 days according to the FBI, which equals roughly 44 a minute. So congratulations LA the 4971 guns you destroyed took a whopping 1 hour and 57 minutes for the free market to replace!
“Selling to the public wasn’t going to happen by a long shot.”
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That’s what Nazis do....they confiscate and destroy firearms.
To zero effect on crime. A completely worthless gesture. Wont save one life or stop one crime. Odds are, 80% of thos guns were near garbage status and would never be used in a crime. Gee, good thing you got that bolt action Jap Arisaka rifle off the streets! Gee, that Hawken percussion single shot was an imminent danger! Good thing that rusted .32 Derringer was turned in.
Idiots.
That picture looks more or less like a garbage pile. I dont see one gun I would take for free and keep. Just 2,997,583 guns left to go! Oops, i should not give them any idears.
What a waste. Rebar is generally low quality steel.
How much money did this bit of recycling cost?
No, they’ll never be in the hands of criminals, now. Sadly they will also never be in the hands of anyone who’d like to defend themselves against them, either.
Reminds me of some old 1970s TV cop shows in which guns are thrown into the ocean.,
Then there was THE STREETS OF SAN FRANCISCO in which a woman buys a .25 cal pistol, it escapes and goes on a killing spree until the cops catch it and melt it down into a sewer cover.
In other states and counties they are sold at police auction. I’ve seen the public go into a bidding frenzy at these and buy junk guns at new prices.
Our county torches the guns. I can’t stand to watch them torch good S&Ws and Colt 1911s!
So, just as a point of departure, let’s just say that each gun weighed 15 lbs which is absurd. Of course that would be ridiculous for a pistol which tend to be about 2-3 lbs; a 1911 Colt is about 2.5 lbs and that’s on the heavier side. An M1 weighs just about 10 lbs which to me is unbelievable, they feel like they weigh 35 pounds!
So they got 4971 call it 5000 guns, let’s whack that back to 4500 to subtract for wooden stocks. That’s 67,500 lbs of steel. Worth about 2 cents a pound, let’s call it 5 cents a pound. That’d be $3375 which is solidly double what the real yield is.
There should be little or no question that at least ten cops were employed to perform this munificent task. There are 7 in the picture. Cost? $200 a day? That would be very low, probably more like $350 with admin and taxes and car expenses driving their asses out there and probably a $500 truck rental to drive the stuff out to the scrapper.
They spent minimally $2.5K to do this and probably recovered $1500. They sold 4970 guns and I’m certainly prepared to say that 4000 of them were garbage, but they managed to lose $1000 selling at minimum 500 guns worth $400 each which is $200K.
Sounds nice, but how many guns were co-opted by those in power who considered some of the weapons valuable or collector worthy, or just too high quality to destroy?
I count 20 officers that could be out actually doing something to stop criminals, instead of staring at a pile of weapons that was as likely to be used in a crime before, than they are after they are melted down.
What will they do if some of the “melted down” metal ends up being made into bullets or another gun? Oh snap.
If they really want to take a bite out of crime, they should donate the rebar to our southern border wall construction.
Sure, I mean there was nothing else that could be done with them, right?
I wonder how much this ‘rebar’ cost the public...?
Good, who wants to run over them?
Sharpened rebar is a deadly weapon.
What a waste.