Posted on 01/05/2018 5:54:04 AM PST by marktwain
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Utah has joined the growing list of states that forbid the destruction of valuable firearms. The law is as rational as can be. Why destroy valuable property when it can be sold and the proceeds used for the public good?
Why destroy perfectly legal guns so that gun manufacturers can make more profits?
If older guns are destroyed, there are plenty of new guns to meet the demand. Utah's new law went into effect on January 1, 2017.
Another new law says authorities can sell abandoned guns or give them to a firearms dealer for sale or to the Bureau of Forensic Services for testing.
But law enforcement officials can only destroy a gun if its condition prevents it from being sold or if it’s associated with a notorious crime.
“I never saw the need for a perfectly good firearm to be destroyed,” the law’s sponsor, Republican Rep. Brad Daw of Orem, told lawmakers during a hearing on the measure.
At least twelve states now ban police from destroying valuable and legal guns that come into their possession. They are:
Other states, such as Indiana, have come close to passing the money-saving legislation.
The people that push for the expensive destruction of legal, safe, useful, and valuable firearms do so for emotional or political reasons, not for rational ones. The numbers are relatively small.
The U.S. stock of private, legal guns has been increasing by over 13 million a year. Chicago has the highest numbers, with about 6,700 guns taken into possession each year. Los Angeles collects about 6,000, and New York City about
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There is only propaganda.
Nice to see some common sense. I remember seeing one case back east where some beautiful Revolution era weapons were crushed. So sad they were not placed in a museum.
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Interesting that almost all the firearms in that picture are shotguns and hunting rifles. Probably inherited by the family when the owner died.
As a free citizen, I have a right to destroy anything that I own.
...Typical guns turned in...says the photos headline.
I’ll bet that Luger sitting at the end of the table wound up in some Cop’s personal collection.
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Chances of the long guns in the pic being used in a crime: virtually zero.
Usefulness of the gun turn-in programs: Zero.
Liberal feel-good: 100%.
86,000 M1 Garands will be repatriated from the Philippines this month. This is more great news. Barry would have left them. The Clintons would have destroyed them.
There is only propaganda.
If only that were true.
The rational reason is to subjugate a people with minimal government casualties.
It's rational if you are of the government...
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