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Benchmade Knife Company Helps Oregon City Police Destroy Firearms
breitbart.com ^ | 21 Feb 2019 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 02/21/2019 6:16:45 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra

In a social media post that has since been removed, the Oregon City Police wrote, “Thank you Benchmade Knife Company for assisting us today by cutting up guns that are ready to be destroyed.”

The backlash against Benchmade’s willingness to cut up firearms was intense, and the Oregon City Police used a Facebook post to try to quell the public’s outrage: We understand some of our followers are upset with Benchmade knives because of a recent post we put out. The post did not give everyone the full story on why the guns were required to be destroyed.

We receive guns that are turned in from community members that they no longer want the guns and want them destroyed. We also have guns that are evidence and when a case is adjudicated the guns are ordered by the court to be destroyed.

These guns were required to be destroyed. We reached out to Benchmade to do us a favor at our request. Benchmade is a strong supporter of law enforcement and the Oregon City community. We were present when the guns were cut and we took them for final destruction.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: banglist; firearms; knives; oregon
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I know what knife company is off my list.
1 posted on 02/21/2019 6:16:45 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I have bought their knives in the past.

I’ll take great pride in never doing the same.

I’ll encourage my friends to do likewise.


2 posted on 02/21/2019 6:18:16 PM PST by gaijin
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To: TangoLimaSierra

https://www.benchmade.com/service-support


3 posted on 02/21/2019 6:19:38 PM PST by gaijin
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To: TangoLimaSierra

F you Benchmade. Complicit in crimes against humanity.


4 posted on 02/21/2019 6:20:48 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

“The post did not give everyone the full story on why the guns were required to be destroyed.”

Don’t want to hear it. There is no justification.


5 posted on 02/21/2019 6:23:07 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Hm. Sounds like they’re destroying guns that weren’t forcibly taken from law abiding gun owners, but if I were running that company I wouldn’t have gone anywhere near it just from the optics standpoint. I don’t mind helping out law enforcement, but it doesn’t seem like they should need a knife company to help destroy guns. I carry cheaper Kershaws anyway.


6 posted on 02/21/2019 6:25:11 PM PST by MountainWalker
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Rock, paper, scissors.


7 posted on 02/21/2019 6:28:22 PM PST by Lisbon1940 (No full-term Governors (at the time of election!)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

They should probably start selling them at Dick’s, right alongside Yeti.

Then again Dick’s is out of the hunting sales business, they may nor even want them.


8 posted on 02/21/2019 6:31:41 PM PST by Cold Heart (The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
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To: gaijin

Go “register your knife” with Benchmade!

You can “name your knife” —fun!

Also they want to know “What you find most attractive about Benchmade”.

Why be boring, riiiight..?


9 posted on 02/21/2019 6:33:43 PM PST by gaijin
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To: Lisbon1940

Rock, paper, .357 magnum.


10 posted on 02/21/2019 6:34:38 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Benchmade is dead to me.


11 posted on 02/21/2019 6:36:22 PM PST by Billthedrill
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This subject has been posted elsewhere. Destroying guns is only a part of it. They give to RAT politicians, not to conservatives.

Ironic that just today I was considering finally buying a Benchmade Infidel. Not now.

12 posted on 02/21/2019 6:39:37 PM PST by LouAvul (Socialism is the logical conclusion of liberalism. Anarchy is the logical conclusion of socialism.)
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If these are weapons that are turned in by family members that no longer want them or weapons used to commit crimes that are no longer needed for evidence, I don't see the problem with their being destroyed providing they are not of any historical value.

There is no shortage of serviceable firearms in America.

13 posted on 02/21/2019 6:44:15 PM PST by Drew68
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Kershaw and a Buck are good alternatives as long as their management doesn’t do anything stupid.


14 posted on 02/21/2019 6:47:49 PM PST by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I’ve carried Spyderco knives for years now. A whole lot cheaper and indestructible.


15 posted on 02/21/2019 6:56:58 PM PST by CMSMC
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To: Drew68

This is in Oregon where draconian gun laws are being proposed. The Oregon plan is to have a shortage of firearms.

And ammunition. Like a 20 round purchase limit per month.


16 posted on 02/21/2019 7:00:52 PM PST by Cold Heart (The main purpose of The Wall is to protect the US from its own politicians.)
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To: TangoLimaSierra

Firearms are destroyed by police all the time. I don’t know what the outrage is, unless you believe guns used in crimes or turned in to the police voluntarily is somehow a bad thing. I can understand if you believe that the police confiscated firearms from lawful owners, but I didn’t get that part of the story.

It’s better if the firearm is made unservicable by a reputable company in the light of day than taken to the incinerator in serviceable condition and pilfered by sticky fingered truckers or incinerator workers along the way. Benchmade probably just happened to be a convenient location with trustworthy employees and hefty metal cutting tools


17 posted on 02/21/2019 7:08:08 PM PST by jz638
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To: Cold Heart
This is in Oregon where draconian gun laws are being proposed. The Oregon plan is to have a shortage of firearms.

Still, there should be a way for people to dispose of firearms they no longer want in their possession and law enforcement should take on the responsibility of providing such a service seeing how they don't want people just leaving them out in the recycle bins.

Some may ask why the police can't just sell them? Because the first time a firearm is used to commit a violent crime that can be traced back to a police sale, all hell is going to break loose.

18 posted on 02/21/2019 7:10:40 PM PST by Drew68
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I will not buy benchmade again. I dont need to know the full story. Unless the story is the police took us hostage and forced us to destroy firearms then there is no excuse. This will be posted on knife forums. Destroying firearms is anti American.


19 posted on 02/21/2019 7:13:23 PM PST by precisionshootist
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To: TangoLimaSierra

I always liked their knives.

To hell with them.


20 posted on 02/21/2019 7:14:47 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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