There’s a gun buyback happening in my town and everyone on social media is arguing about the practice. I’ve tried looking into what happens after the local PD obtains the guns, they claim they are melted down and they sell the scrap metal. I have a hard time believing that, does anyone have any declass info or other evidence that shows that’s not actually what they do? Thanks in advance!
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They scrap some of them. They keep some of the expensive stuff.
This is the theory I have, they pass them on or sell them to various agitators (guerrilla militias, gangs, cartel members, terrorist organizations, etc)
Depends on what they are taking. Most of it are shit broken guns worth $40 that people drag in to get $100. Some guys even have made shitty pipe shotguns out of black iron pipe and sold those to the gov’t.
If its a confiscation like “assault” rifles, they will supply them to a rebel group in a country they are trying to overthrow like they did with ISIS, the FSA and the Arab Spring. Look into the Fast and Furious gun running story.
The fast and furious “project gunrunner” was my first thought for where to start looking but they weren’t clear about where the guns they sold to cartel members in Mexico came from. We’re they illegal guns bc they were “stolen/no serial numbers/used in crimes” or illegal guns bc the people buying them aren’t allowed to own or possess firearms?
That particular case was a few straw purchasers stateside buying guns for the cartel. They were tipped off by various gun shop owners so they start OP F&F but didnt really do anything about it and later a border agent was killed by a couple of those firearms.
But US alphabet orgs did arm Mujahideen (al qaeuda), ISIS, FSA, and rebels in Venezuela. These are not always military grade weapons deals as the US does not want to make it look like they are dealing arms so in the case of VZ they send down pistols and AR15 sporting rifles, which are not designed for the battlefield. It is likely they send out confiscated weapons as oppossed to purchasing new ones in those deals to save on the budget and make the rebels look like ragtag misfits who got their guns naturally.
Scout the people selling guns before they walk in and get cheap guns
I see a lot of comments stating what they do but what i’d really like to see is proof or evidence backing those claims. Who handles the melting process? Where do they melt them? What’s the transfer chain look like if or when they leave the hands of the local PD? I presume ATF is involved in some capacity, what’s their role?
With good reason.
Half the guns that get turned into those sort of programs are Lorcins.
They get "recycled" into the hands of people who kill Americans.
Merica