Want to see 40,000 lbs of guns melted down thanks to the LAPD?

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Let me see, there is the cash paid for the buy back. The salaries of the people running the buy back. The salaries of the SWAT personnel needed to guard the weapons. The cost of transporting the weapons (with the associated guards.) The salary of the persons that must check the weapons for lead and ammunition and the persons that must guard them... That has to be some premium cost re-bar. No wonder California has so many financial crises.

Perhaps it would be more cost effective for the politicians to stamp them into commemorative coins celebrating the effectiveness of Cali crime control initiatives and sell them at 10% markup. If the population will elect those clowns they will buy anything.

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Sadly I've had to observe these travesties firsthand in the past.
I wanted to puke, even though most guns appeared to be lower end stuff it still has value and is a waste. Not to mention ^**&(( UnAmerican!
 
The steel from the smelted guns is being formed into rebar. A gun that the "buy back" bought for $100, is being made into $2 worth of rebar. So the city is gaining nothing from this.
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Also I guarantee that the city is paying the Mill to process this stuff. In fact they are probably paying them alot.
 
Modern Police forces present the greatest danger to our liberty.
They have betrayed the people they purport to serve/
The video is living proof.
 
How many times must they repeat the lie that they are taking weapons "off the street"? This makes me sick. These are guns nobody wants, like some anti's dead uncle's guns or old broken worthless guns. My tax dollars are paying for this. It is a giant scam. There is no proof that crime has decreased in the least because of the buy-back.
 
How many times must they repeat the lie that they are taking weapons "off the street"? This makes me sick. These are guns nobody wants, like some anti's dead uncle's guns or old broken worthless guns. My tax dollars are paying for this. It is a giant scam. There is no proof that crime has decreased in the least because of the buy-back.
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It might be good way of getting rid of these programs. Just as it's easy to sway people with the "getting the guns off the streets" BS. I wonder how the general public would respond to their tax dollars being thrown away with zero result? I wonder what the best way to get that idea out to them?
 
go ahead and melt them... just makes mine more valuable
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Yeah, but it also makes that one that I want from the local shop cost more. Bit of a double-edged sword.

Modern Police forces present the greatest danger to our liberty.
They have betrayed the people they purport to serve/
The video is living proof.
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I got ticked at "a platoon of SWAT officers" like they are military.
 
Guns are also destroyed after they are confiscated as evidence and serve their purpose at trial. All of these localities short on $ should stop wasting it by destroying guns
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im pretty sure in my area they hold auctions of guns that were confiscated. i think but im not sure:scrutiny:
 
This is so idiotic it makes my brain hurt.

A bankrupt, environmentally-obsessed, gun-fearing state just melted an easy $300,000, put a bunch of carbon in the air, and increased the profit margins for gun companies across the nation.

Do they simply not understand cause and effect?
 
I just about cried when I saw that street sweeper in the pile getting pulled out. They could have sold it to me!:cuss:
 
I’ll believe California cities have a cash shortage when they stop burning money, which is exactly what melting guns is. Have auctions twice-a-year and put the guns into the hands of law abiding citizens. And use the proceeds to pay the bills.

And what’s with SWAT having to “protect” the guns?!? I’ve been to plenty of auctions with thousands of guns and they didn’t need SWAT for security. They ought to dump most of SWAT back on to the streets where they actually have to work every day. With the endless supply of tax dollars the last few decades, every police force in the state wants a SWAT team. What a waste of money.

Until California starts acting like they’re short of money, I couldn’t give a rats-butt how many layoffs happen, including police and fire.
 
Buy back

I have a friend down here that ownes a gunshop. They had a local buy back, he went and put non functioning guns together, they bought em and he laughed all the way to the bank.

All those guns were either
A: Stolen and NEVER returned to the owner

B: Non functioning old paper weights.

I might just buy a bunch of plastic squirt guns and paint em black and do the same next time. J/K...:)
 
You can tell California has a bunch of rocket scientists running the show!! :barf:

Before, it was crushing old cars because of smog. Now, it's melting guns because of crime. :fire:

What's next? Melting forks & spoons because people are fat? How about closing the banks because people are broke?? :banghead:

{Shaking head} I just don't get it?!! :confused:
 
one question for you people that think how bad this is...


what would you have them do with the weapons?

Storing them costs them money.

selling them is a political nightmare anywhere in the country.( 1st time one shows up in a crime, the media will be all over you.)

If they have had the serial number removed they can't be sold, also can't be returned to the rightful owers.

Returning guns to the legal owners is not always a option, even when it is it can be a very hard thing to do.
 
The comments about the people wanting to get guns out of their house reminds me of the Ad for "Free Removal of Dangerous Guns from your House. Just Call."

Also, did anyone notice the officer at first hesitated, then said they were removing "illegal" guns. Most of what I saw were old rifles. Are those now "illegal" in California too?
 
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Posts: 118 You can tell California has a bunch of rocket scientists running the show!!

Before, it was crushing old cars because of smog. Now, it's melting guns because of crime.

What's next? Melting forks & spoons because people are fat? How about closing the banks because people are broke??

{Shaking head} I just don't get it?!!


1+ to that how about we BAN Gas and matches from everyone! because you know people can start fires..... :eek:
 
Stupid just plain stupid...

Some of those guns are worth a heap more than they paid for them, California is hurting big time for cash, and a gun sold through legitimate Chanel's could bring several hundred dollars a pound vs the 50 cents they will get now...:what:

Just a guess 40,000 pounds of guns with averaging the weight between the handguns and long guns, to about 4 pounds would be around 10,000 guns with a store resale value averaged out to say $400 bucks each would bring in close to 4 million dollars into the state.....:banghead:

Stupid just plain stupid.... :cuss:
 
Wow, what's with the angry posts? Did you not read what I just said, that this HELPS gun manufacturers?
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With what? A while back RRA was quoting folks 12-18 months for a new rifle, when they would answer the phone...

A is backlog basically "how much money we would have made, if we could make the product." It isn't really helpful.
 
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