[Ditto]

Where I live, the police would have reported that it was "lost" and then some years later, it would turn up in some retired cop's private collection.

Would have happend there too if the photo of it and the guy had not been in the paper. Most of the guns turned in at thses things are inoperable junk. The few that are actually worth something never head the the melting pot, they go to the cops who sell them.

[longtermmemmory]

I can not believe a WW II veteran would be so naive as to even participate in the buy back scam. I don't know who to be more upset with.

Seriously, you are so right about police "perks".