Confiscated Guns Melted

CBS-3 9 (Philadelphia) ^ | 3/24/05 | n/a

[kiriath_jearim]

Confiscated Guns Melted

Mar 24, 2005 6:15 pm US/Eastern

COATSVILLE, PA (KYW) It was a murderous meltdown Thursday as more than 3,000 guns dissolved at more than 3,000 degrees in a steel plant furnace.

The move comes as CBS 3’s Walt Hunter reports officials turn up the heat in hopes of getting deadly weapons off Philadelphia’s streets.

Every kind of caliber, every type of crime, and many still marked with the blood of their victims.

The roar of the weapons brought violence and death to city streets but now, following the roar of a steel plant furnace, they are about to disappear.

From their storage place at the police evidence room, the weapons were moved in a truck caravan under the close watch of swat teams to the ISG Steel Plant in Coatesville

With furnaces heated to more than 3,000 degrees, once the guns were dumped into the flames, they were gone for good.

For officers who often risked their lives seizing the weapons and for workers feeding the fires, it was a satisfying day.

Hunter says that now the molten lava of the melted guns will quickly be transformed into steel plates to protect troops in Iraq.

[Swordmaker]

Every kind of caliber, every type of crime, and many still marked with the blood of their victims.

If these guns were used in violent crimes, they would not be destroyed... they would be evidence that must be retained.

They are merely confiscated guns... probably not used in crime.

[donmeaker]

most cops I know already have a cheapo gun to plant on someone who accidently comes up clean in a search. They keep it right next to their film canister of dope.

Once a rookie cop was being questions by the prosecutor. He told what happened, without embellishment, just the facts.

The prosecutor said in an anguished voice, "Request permission to approach the bench."

All charges were then dropped.

[leadpencil1]

re the article, yea right!