Posted on 02/05/2025 3:50:16 AM PST by marktwain
On January 22, 2025, Democratic Governor Whitmer of Michigan signed HB No. 6145 into law as part of a package of bills. HB No. 6145 mandates the state destroy valuable assets as an ideological statement. The bill requires all parts of firearms that come into possession of the Michigan State Police to be destroyed instead of being sold and the money used for the public good. From enrolled House Bill No. 6145:
Sec. 14. ( 1) Subject to sections 5g and 14a, all pistols, weapons, or devices carried or possessed contrary to this act are declared forfeited to this state, and must be turned over to the director of the department of state police or the director’s designated representative, for disposal under this section.
(2) The director of the department of state police shall dispose of firearms under this section by destroying them. The director shall ensure that all parts of a firearm disposed of under this section are destroyed.
The New York Times reported in 2023 that buyback programs often don’t lead to the complete firearm being destroyed.
Instead, a single piece that includes the gun’s serial number is disposed of before the company that takes them in sells the rest of
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
SSDD.
Think better, this is likely more about destroying held firearms even before the issue is resolved and if the person wins their weapon back it will already be destroyed.
You know, oops we made a mistake, sorry but nothing you can do.
Just wait till they bust a gun shop owner for some technicality......
Destruction ends the paper trail. Government officials could pocket some really nice / expensive weapons, claim they were destroyed, and there is nothing that could be done about it.
This is an a perfect example of why Michigan lost both the state legislature and the state senate (2022) for the first time in DECADES. State-level GOPe/RINOs at work here did this and frequently you can’t tell the difference. Many conservatives just stopped voting for the barely lesser of evils. And term limits do not work, at least at the state level. The state level deep-state (if you will) has the democrats ready to roll many years out, the republicans appear to do nothing.
And if the USSC finds the law unconstitutional they will owe a whole lot of $$.
Cops “destroying” guns by taking them home is a common practice.
Dems find the right to inject a child with hormones and mangle his privates in the constitution.
but they have trouble finding the 2nd Amendment.
Yup. It seems like the path through collage leads strait down the rabbit hole.
There was a TJ Hooker episode about that.
One of the few I remember.
Vic Tayback (Mel Sharples) was the villain.
And it’s an expensive hole to go down!
Paying all that money to be taught that the insane is normal and the normal, reprehensible.
geez.
that’s what happens when you let people driven by emotion vote ...
I always wondered how smart can collage kids be if they borrow to pay for their own indoctrination..talk about combining capitalism and socialism.
Like they won’t be going out the back door...
Lol- yep- feckless dems are slimier than sea slug snot when it comes to the constitution
“Firearms....to be destroyed instead of being sold and the money used for the public good”
I remember going to a police auction in a nearby state. Lots of seized items from house hold goods to firearms were being sold. Lots of people cane to see family furnishings being sold. Rather boring.
THEN Suddenly something like an electric charge went through the crowd and the surged toward the gun table! THEY WERE SELLING THE GUNS! I could not believe my eyes as the buyers were bidding up old junk guns for new prices, and good quality guns went for New prices! It was like a form of madness took over! All guns were legally sold and papers had to be filled out.
Our local county sheriff destroys all guns seized in this county. I saw some great S&W revolvers years ago I wish I could have bought.
***Government officials could pocket some really nice / expensive weapons, claim they were destroyed,***
I remember reading several years ago of guns supposedly destroyed that turned up later in private hands.
I have an old shotgun traded to me decades ago by a former cop. After the trade was made he told me not to loose it as he did not know it’s background. Again, a former cop.
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