Gunbusters packaging.

[larryh1108]

Again,
We can agree to disagree.

I'd rather have the receiver cut up and the parts sold to gun owners who need them than to have governments destroy them in total.
Would I rather have them sold whole?
Of course.
But that is not reality.
Some governments want the extra money from selling it whole and do so.
Some want them destroyed, in total. To them, guns are evil.
Some try to appease both sides and destroy the receiver and sell the parts to a middle man like Gunbusters.
I'll enjoy the parts recovered just fine. Better than having no parts at all.
You can cry watching those whole guns getting ground up or buried.
Win/win, right?

 

[WestKentucky]

What happens when it's your gun being destroyed?

More importantly, what did I do to have my guns confiscated or had an order to submit them for destruction. If I follow the law, this doesn’t happen. You are taking the same hard stance as the anti gun folks, just looking at it from the other direction. Their stance is destroy confiscate and remove them all. Your stance is don’t mess with any of them. Realistically there is a fine line that is crossed. Guns used in the commission of a crime are lawfully required in many jurisdictions to be destroyed. Additionally guns modified to NFA status illegally cannot be sold on the open market. So where should these guns go? The scrap yard? There is a place for a hard-line stance, but this ain’t one of those places.

 

[FlSwampRat]

There's arguments for both destruction and for resale.
As with Remington being sued, cities, towns, counties, etc would be opening themselves to lawsuits should someone use a confiscated and resold firearm to do a mass shooting. Plus, it would politically be a liability in any town that was anti gun for the politicians administering a sell back program.
However, rather than argue the merits of either side, if a gun is slated for destruction does it really matter who destroys it if said destruction was unavoidable and a foregone conclusion If a provate company does it it doesn't cost the taxpayers as the costs are defrayed with the resale of parts.

 

[Elkins45]

Actually, I believe each of their locations holds an FFL. Maybe even some are gun dealers.
Whether or not they are ideologically antigun is irrelevant when one is actually destroying guns.

If the law (or policy in the case of service weapons) requires it be done then who actually does it seems irrelevant to me. It’s not debatable that the guns are going to be destroyed anyway.

At least this way some of the parts can continue to be useful.

I hope you aren’t misunderstanding that I’m somehow in favor of these guns being destroyed; I’m not. I’m also not in favor of traffic deaths, but if a teenager is going to die regardless then at least it’s good that someone else will get a new heart or kidney.

 

[FlSwampRat]

If the law (or policy in the case of service weapons) requires it be done then who actually does it seems irrelevant to me. It’s not debatable that the guns are going to be destroyed anyway.

At least this way some of the parts can continue to be useful.

My take on it exactly.

 

[94045]

Do I wish no guns were destroyed? Yes.
However given a choice between salvaging the parts and not salvaging the parts I don't begrudge the salvager. That makes as much sense as refusing to buy parts for my '69 Charger from someone that crushed the unibody of the '69 the parts came from.

 

[Demi-human]

If humans got together and forced their community authorities not to destroy the firearms there would be no issues dividing we friends here.

But I don’t live in every community, and must respect the wishes of my neighbor on their soil.

It is a deterrent to crime. If I thought I would go out poaching and brandishing, I wouldn’t live where they destroy the guns when they catch me.

Of course felons don’t get their firearms back. So if I was the poaching and threatening type, I suppose I would advocate to have felons retain possession rights first, then live there.

Very convoluted, as most things go. It wouldn’t be a problem if we were not human. But we are.


Honestly, I would sit as “Chief Gun Judiciary”. My department of “infallible peers” would pour over each case and firearm. Doling out further destructive punishment on all the cheap and plentiful, regardless of sentimentality, for the good of the economy, er, I mean, community.
Those unfortunate orphans that come to be wards of my state would be housed carefully until new homes could be found.
I mean, who cares that the old man wouldn’t eat his Haggis for the last time. That’s a nicely made and valuable shot gun, after a good rinse. We don’t throw away things that are not disposable...
The idiot banger caught with a Colt 38Super full of 9mms is an idiot, why punish the firearm? His equally dumb buddy who has his dad’s M&P Nine full of .380s will see it chopped into oblivion.

Arbitration aught to be completely arbitrary...


My example state is also NOT a representative republic... Muhahahahaa!


(I’m just glad West got his parts in great condition. UPS in Michigan must hate cardboard boxes...)