lapd turns guns into rebar!!!

[barrym66]

How many guns does everyone think this is? 4000 or so? It would seem to me that this wouldn't even scratch the surface of the amount of "illegal" guns.

Only 1700 guns, per one of the officers interviewed on the vid....there's likely more than that on the streets today in the typical LA 'hood.

Big deal... but if it makes the anti's happy, let them have their occasional sacrifice.

Barry

[AaronHorrocks]

Add a bunch of other junk scrap steel to the melt...

Like pooring a light colored paint into a darker shade... You're going to need much more "junk scrap" in that mixture.

[Jonathan Doe]

Didn't Feinstein melt her gun and made it into a cross a few years ago?

[SanSacto]

I am a waiter, and I can't even watch wasted alcohol being poured out. I don't down it myself, but I do have to close my eyes and pour it out. There is no way I would be able to keep my composure while all those great guns are destroyed.

[professionalcoyotehunter]

I think I shed a tear.

[audihenry]

I dare them to do that with all the LAPD's guns. If other people should be made to do without, so should they so they know what it feels like.

What part of "volunteer" do you not understand? No one forced these people to turn in their weapons. They took the offer and turned in their guns.

For a forum with a bunch of so called conservatives, it's odd to see freedom of choice criticized so much.

Are they your guns? No. Be happy.

You can make the argument that these guns in the hands of the previous owners were a liability to current law abiding gun owners. Sometimes it takes one bullet to change the world.

[paul0660]

I will bet a million that REALLY NICE guns don't make it to the smelter.

[RobG]

Am sure some of those guns turned in must be stolen, I wonder do they even attempt to return them to their owners before they melt them down?

Nope, they do nothing. And you can't tell me that some of those high end guns (AR, "streetsweeper", 9mm semis, etc.) weren't used in crimes then turned in "anonymously" to avoid being caught and traced to actual crimes. Just another "feel good" measure to make citizens think the gov't is doing something about the LA crime rate

[yellowfin]

What part of "volunteer" do you not understand? No one forced these people to turn in their weapons. They took the offer and turned in their guns.

For a forum with a bunch of so called conservatives, it's odd to see freedom of choice criticized so much.

Are they your guns? No. Be happy.

You can make the argument that these guns in the hands of the previous owners were a liability to current law abiding gun owners. Sometimes it takes one bullet to change the world.

It was voluntary this time. Bad precedent for the future. I don't like them getting the thought in their head they can do this and cheer about it. Looks too much like book burning. How many of those were confiscated? LAPD/SO confiscates guns all the time for any reason or no reason at all and makes it a point to do so. Their brass and unions lobby heavily for every anti gun law ever brought up and they use this sort of stuff as propaganda for it and use media to impose stigma on existing law abiding gun owners and work against us getting newcomers to our side. Again, this is done with the idea of getting the public to cheer this kind of activity.

Again I say make those turds throw their own guns into the melting pot if they're going to melt anyone's. Maybe throw their Hollywood anti gun buddies' guns there too. If they think this is good then make them lead by example. Otherwise they can stick their meltings and burnings where the sun don't shine.

[nick]

First off, rebar is some of the mildest steel out there. How do you get high quality hardend steel downgraded to softer than mild steel?

You change the carbon content and other additives in it in a furnace.

[nick]

Didn't Feinstein melt her gun and made it into a cross a few years ago?

She can touch a cross without, you know, repercussions?

[chansen49]

Why they wouldnt make em all legal again, then resell them for the benefit of the state is beyond me..

[Scratch705]

people should stand just outside of those buyback places, and offer to pay discount pricing for those guns before they get to LAPD hands.

at least then maybe they can be reconditioned to reselling status, or pawn shop sellers. or if they are really junk, bring it to the buyback haha

[professionalcoyotehunter]

I tried that when they did it at the AV fairgrounds the month before this buy back and got run off by police officers telling me it was illegal to do so. I told them I would take them to get PPT and DROS'd but they did not care if it was legal.

[audihenry]

Nope, they do nothing. And you can't tell me that some of those high end guns (AR, "streetsweeper", 9mm semis, etc.) weren't used in crimes then turned in "anonymously" to avoid being caught and traced to actual crimes. Just another "feel good" measure to make citizens think the gov't is doing something about the LA crime rate

You commit a crime. Being a criminal and being aware of your guilt do you:

A. Sell the gun on the black market to another criminal?
B. Get rid of the gun somewhere, throw it in a trash, dump it in the ocean, bury it, etc.?
C. Take it to the cops, presenting yourself and a possible weapon used in crime, without knowing what your fate will be despite the cops' insistence of a no questions asked policy?

Gee, you'd have to be a pretty dumb criminal to try C for a couple of hundred bucks, regardless of how it is being handled.