You know what Ive ALWAYS wondered?

[FourTenJaeger]

Where do firearms go to die? The Carcanco that was used to kill JFK, For instance. What happens to all the firearms used in shootings? Are they held in some evidence room for the rest of their lives? Are they destroyed? Any input would be great.

[ro442173]

Some museun somewhere would be my guess. Google it up.

[jtmkinsd]

Where do firearms go to die? The Carcanco that was used to kill JFK, For instance. What happens to all the firearms used in shootings? Are they held in some evidence room for the rest of their lives? Are they destroyed? Any input would be great.

Oswald's rifle and a handgun he also owned are in the National Archives.

Other firearms are mostly disposed of (cut up, recycled) after a period of time, and ballistics information is kept on them longer.

[asgalindez]

Famous/historic guns = museum
Everything else gets melted into rebar...or ends up in Mexico!

[VictorFranko]

Here you go James:

[brassballs]

I worked in a steel mill in Oakland years ago (1979-1986) Judson steel. Some of you might remember the big blue "J" where 880 and 80 cross by the bay bridge. Long gone as most real Industry is in ca..

As I was the scrap yard walking boss, I Got all the crap jobs like assisting local and state agencies destroying various things. We would throw them in the furnace after tapping a heat, then drop a scrap charge in to restart melting.

Guns were most often the items we burned up.

On on particular occasion the FBI I think it was, not the local pd, came in with about 5 duffle bags of long guns to destroy. I ask the man in charge if we could throw them in bags and all so as not to waist time. Our incentive pay was based on production and turn around time cost money. Of course he said no so I told him "dump the bags and be ready to help".

When the bags were all dumped out on the floor I just about lost it!

These were not your typical junk guns, most were high end collector edition Winchesters, Henery's, belgian Brownings, and lots of high end military type stuff. This was a group of guns that far surpassed my uncles collection. His was valued at over 1/2 million then!

When I started asking questions they all got real serious and would not comment on where these came from.

Well non the less I got pissed, started to rant about destroying historic guns and why? When they would not comment again I decided to make this as hard on them as it was for me. Ask real tough questions like "are these guns ammo free?", some still had mags attached and all bolts were closed. Answer was "Yes we field strip everything as we inventory".

To finish the story, we formed a conga line out to the furnace door and passed all the gun right into the hot furnace in about 4 minutes. Then the SHTF!, when I turned to walk away the whole place sounded like a range shoot with full auto's.

I hit the ground and rolled to cover only to see 5 agents with there guns drawn looking for the shooters! Was funny as hell!

Well i was the HNIC (head nut in charge) so i ask everyone to "please put your guns away and return to the office" where there was a lot of I'm sorry crap going on, and this will never happen again.

I escorted them to the gate and told them never come back here again.
Which really held no real power only made them feel dumber.

That is all.

[Exile Machine]

Famous crime guns go into a museum.
Run of the mill crime guns, some are destroyed, a few make their way into bad cops' pockets as throw-downs.

Seen it on Law & Order so it must be true.

-Mark

[Fishslayer]

Famous crime guns go into a museum.
Run of the mill crime guns, some are destroyed, a few make their way into bad cops' pockets as throw-downs.

Seen it on Law & Order so it must be true.

-Mark

Dunno... if I had access to some historically significant (or just collector grade) firearm that was on it's way to King Neptune, blast furnace, whatever... I would have a VERY hard time keeping hands off. Just sayin'...

[Mickael81]

I always thought that historic guns ended up somewhere in the Smithsonian. As far as service rifles a lot of them get Dermoed and end up at the manufacture for reconditioning and brought back to service.

[jtmkinsd]

One of our local PDs finally figured out their losing out on a revenue stream. They have begun selling the "hunting/sporting" guns and revolvers they seize, no pistols or semi-auto rifles. Guess the bad economy is good for saving a few guns from the melting pot.

[PyroFox79]

That video made me shed a tear.