National Gov gun buybacks - turn around and resell the guns (sans the frame/receiver with the s/n)

[The Heretic]

The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms. “Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said. “I will not allow our city...

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[red442joe]

Did ANYONE not know this?
Okay, so you couldn't "know", let's not be testicle.
Did any one not believe this would happen?
Who woulda guessed...

Joe

 

[GrayGoose]

"Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits."

More government incompetency at it's finest. I'm shocked.

 

[Stomper]

Gun buybacks, and terminology like "gun violence" is a fraking farce to begin with, and they KNOW it! Fools, all of them.

 

[CamoDeafie]

So that's where Apex Gun Parts get a lot of their stuff from....

 

[Yarome]

Did ANYONE not know this?
Okay, so you couldn't "know", let's not be testicle.
Did any one not believe this would happen?
Who woulda guessed...

Some jurisdictions don't even bother with pretending. Many police departments across the nation have been caught selling or trading in fully intact/functional buyback firearms to "help supplement the departments budget". Check the SN to verify it's not a crime gun and out she goes right back out onto the streets.

"Close to home" it wasn't too terribly long ago it was WA state police that got called out for doing just that. I don't recall hearing what the outcome was or if they still do it or not, though.

 

[trekkerpaul]

Technically the firearm is only the serialized part. Go to Gunbroker and look up parts kit. There are hundreds of these that sell every month. Doing the Lords work saving the parts, but does irritate me that they destroy the AK front trunnions.

 

[Nosferatu]

"Buy back" indicates they owned it prior to the seller at some point. How are they providing such proof?

 

[Yarome]

If anyone even bothered to use their brain... law enforcement, gooberment agency trade-ins and military surplus firearms probably amount to 10's if not 100's of thousands of firearms sold annually in the U.S.

If buybacks were anything more than virtue signaling at the tax payers expense, and they were serious about reducing firearms in the U.S., the gooberment would require all agencies to destroy all their trade-in's and surplus's.

That would require folks to muster together at least half a brain fart to realize that though.

 

[CamoDeafie]

"Buy back" indicates they owned it prior to the seller at some point. How are they providing such proof?

Easy. "Government owns everything. They're just letting you use them"

 

[Nosferatu]

If anyone even bothered to use their brain... law enforcement, gooberment agency trade-ins and military surplus firearms probably amount to 10's if not 100's of thousands of firearms sold annually in the U.S.

Those guns were purchased by the taxpayer, not the department and should be distributed back to the original purchaser after their service life.

Yes, I'm still down here waiting for hell to freeze.

 

[trevi]

Technically the firearm is only the serialized part. Go to Gunbroker and look up parts kit. There are hundreds of these that sell every month. Doing the Lords work saving the parts, but does irritate me that they destroy the AK front trunnions.

I have contributed to Gunbusters success!

 

[arakboss]

I have contributed to Gunbusters success!

I wonder if they destroyed your 2x4 or the plumbing pipe?

 

[Unicykle]

"Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits."

More government incompetency at it's finest. I'm shocked.

Incompetency? This would be about as efficient as I've ever seen government run.

 

[Stomper]

Easy. "Government owns everything. They're just letting you use them"

They definitely act like your kids belong to them, but it's YOUR responsibility to feed & clothe them.

 

[red442joe]

Easy. "Government owns everything. They're just letting you use them"

"You didn't build that" BHO

Joe

 

[NeoBlackdog]

"Buy back" indicates they owned it prior to the seller at some point. How are they providing such proof?

Exactly! One cannot 'buy back' that which one has never owned.

 

[trevi]

I wonder if they destroyed your 2x4 or the plumbing pipe?

Nah, it shoots straight, just as the doctor ordered.

 

[The Heretic]

Did ANYONE not know this?
Okay, so you couldn't "know", let's not be testicle.
Did any one not believe this would happen?
Who woulda guessed...

Joe

Who didn't know?

Those who vote for/support gun control.

 

[The Heretic]

"Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits."

More government incompetency at it's finest. I'm shocked.