What’s great is that they got that highly dangerous streetsweeper muzzleloader off the streets and out of the hands of children who might otherwise rod a liquor store.
What’s really great is that some guy offloaded his rusty old rifle and hopefully put the money toward ammo or a new gun.
This was a "giveback". These were guns people gave to police, just to get rid of them.
A triumph of propaganda over self interest, if the guns were of any value.
Sometimes guns worth thousands of dollars are given away to police.