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so why is this news? what is the big deal?
Stopped right there. ATF recommendations would be the same as KGB recommendations.
Brilliant.
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Leftist imbeciles want to punish the firearms, but not the criminals who misused them. So by all means tie the guilty weapons to the whipping post for a good flogging, give them some counselling, then sell them intact.
Destroying firearms with residual value is idiotic. Stripping and selling parts helps offset the costs of disposal. Not sure who would find this problematic.
Parts...
This is some leftist BS story, like when they claim 5 guns and a thousand rounds is an “arsenal”.
The ATF recommends (or straight out lies about) a lot of things that are not legally required. People simply comply because they are afraid and do not know their rights. This story should have been quashed when the reporter learned there is nothing illegal about selling unregulated gun parts. Well, unless of course there is a leftist agenda at play.
Another example of ATF “recommended” actions are notifying them of an intrastate move if you have SBRs. Nothing legally requires you to tell the ATF you’ve moved to a different address in the same state if you have an SBR. But their Form 4 wording is carefully chosen to imply such an obligation. The ATF doesn’t enforce law, they make crap up and try to trick people into waiving their rights.
I have to agree. The receiver is the gun. The rest is just parts.
I love it. Make stupid law that treats one part as “the gun” trying to quash gun ownership; live with the consequences thereof.
I live close enough to Dallas to get local Dallas news networks, and when I saw the promo for this report I laughed out loud.
Programs which destroy guns, or gun parts, just put more money in gun manufacturers pockets.
In the old days when replacing with new firearms the old guns were sold to Jobbers who then resold them to the public. I was quite a few S&W 39 pistols from Illinois for sale at a gun show decades ago.
Can we add incompetence to the list of reasons why the government shouldn’t be regulating gun ownership?
My daughter used to be in the evidence department at the sheriff's office and they kept evidence for years and then sold usable things for profit. Every once in a while she would have things like a Desert Eagle or a M1 Garand, or a M1A sitting in a corner. Even shotguns and deer rifles were sold for quite good money. Some were engraved and gold inlaid. Even something rusty with tape on the stock could bring $50 of pure profit. Very often she was in charge of burning truck loads of Marijuana after the trials and appeals.
Any reasonable person should know that it's the person with the gun that causes to crime, not the gun itself. I watched video's of England and Australia cutting up perfectly good guns and it made me sick to watch. Many of them super collectable. A large police department could generate millions of income after a couple of years of storage. When a liberal finds out a gun was sold back into the population, they go berserk thinking it will be used in a crime again. Truth is, All buyers have to pass a background check and use in a crime of the future is minimal. Certainly the same or less than a new purchase at a gun store.
WASTE NOT== WANT NOT
So? You still can’t build a firearm without the receiver.