Posted on 12/11/2023 12:02:57 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
A gun control activist was “aghast” and dismayed to learn that the burgeoning blue-city gun buyback culture is actually feeding a secondary arms and gun parts market.
The New York Times focused on a recent gun buyback in Flint, Michigan, noting that Gunbusters, a Missouri company, was contracted to handle the weapons which were surrendered.
According to the NYT, “[Gunbusters] has taken in more than 200,000 firearms over the past decade from about 950 police agencies around the country, from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to St. Louis to Hartford, Vermont.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Gunbusters does not necessarily destroy the firearm which is handed over at these buybacks. Rather, it often destroys the part on which the serial number is located, then sells the remaining gun parts on the gun parts market. As a result, “Gunbusters and its five licensees across the country, for example, recently averaged more than $90,000 a week in combined online sales of hundreds of disassembled guns from government clients.”
Some police departments may have sent bought back guns to the smelter a few years back, but now they are so strapped for cash that you bet they’re gonna sell them for extra cash.
all I can hear is hu-hu-huWHAAAAA as a river is cried.
Rev. Chris Yaw said he was “aghast and appalled.”
He added, “It tells me that our society is set up really well for buying and selling guns, but it’s not set up very well for disposing of them.”
200,000 firearms is a drop in the ocean.
I’ve bought parts (for a very old gun) from Gunbusters.
Kinda hated them for breaking up valuable antiques, but this story made me feel all warm & fuzzy inside. I helped them defeat the hoplophobes!
Years ago I went to sheriff sale of confiscated items in a neighboring state. Lots of common items for sale and no one was bidding for much.
Then about noon it was like an electric charge went through the crowd and they surged toward one table. THEY WERE SELLING THE GUNS!
People began to bid up and UP for old broken firearms. Some in good shape went for over new prices! I could not believe my eyes!
All gun buyers had to fill out the standard paperwork for them.
Selling confiscated weapons is nothing new for police. Years ago I saw lots of former Chicago police handguns sold at the gun show in Tulsa OK.
Such sales bring in needed money to the police departments.
Our county supposedly destroys such firearms. Such a waste of good resources.
Duhhhhh...
It says “coming soon”. Think they’ve pulled their site down?
Sounds like a good gig they’ve got going.
I’m a milsurp collector. Bookmarking them for future use.
CC
I need a couple of parts for an old Remington pump .22. Maybe they’ll have them.
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I have a S&W 6946 DAO that came from Newark, NJ PD. What the big commercial companies like Glock or SIG will do is come in and offer “swaps”. For example they’ll come in and offer 1 new gun of their make for 2 of the agencies old guns. That way the agency gets their new guns at a reasonable price. The gun distributor then turns around and wholesales them. I got the S&W for $300 bucks and they threw in 200 rounds of 9mm. Great gun.
CC
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