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Gun buyback programs were already among the most senseless parts of the gun control agenda. These events in which guns are ‘bought’ are little more than virtue signaling for broken cities suffering from a crime problem. The premise is apparently that destroying guns will somehow end crime because the criminals won’t be able to get any more guns.
Not only can the criminals get more guns, but the guns being ‘bought’ aren’t even being destroyed.
When Flint, Mich., announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.
But Flint’s guns were not going to be melted down. Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what’s missing and reconstitute the weapon.
So the whole thing is even more senseless than ever. Cities are buying and then reselling firearms while claiming that they’re ending gun violence.
To be able to say a gun is destroyed, disposal companies crush or cut up a single piece that federal law classifies as a firearm: the receiver or frame that anchors the other components and contains the required serial number. The businesses can then sell the remaining parts as a kit: barrel, trigger, grip, slide, stock, springs — essentially the entire gun, minus the regulated piece.
Police agencies and disposal companies say they are following guidelines set by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While the guidelines, posted on the A.T.F. website, show illustrations of whole guns being cut into pieces with an acetylene torch, they also say that an “acceptable method” is to destroy just the receiver or frame.
The companies, for their part, say that if public officials want the whole gun destroyed, they must pay for it.
“Our services are free for law enforcement agencies,” said Scott Reed, president of Gunbusters. “If we can’t cover our costs by selling parts, then we charge them.”
Only about two percent of Gunbusters’ clients pay to have the full firearm destroyed, he said. Federal agencies, including the Secret Service, are among them.
Hilarious.
However, the government and gun controllers don’t actually want to stop guns from falling into the hands of criminals. What they want to do is ratchet up the tension and violence until the public goes along with banning guns. (At which point only the authorities and criminals will have them.) This isn’t about guns, it’s about social control. So the same system obsessively claiming that it’s getting guns off the street is actually reselling them for parts.
LSC Destruction’s contracts typically state that the police will keep a piece of the gun bearing the serial number, but that “LSC will retain all other portions of the firearm.”
Getting rid of the serial number is convenient because it means no one can be blamed. And the local authorities virtue signal with gun buybacks while keeping criminals on the street and pretending to round up all the guns.
I was unfamiliar with the Gunbusters story. It’s kinda funny in a way, but evil to it’s core in another.
The whole gun control argument is specious at best. Leftists are well aware that the car doesn’t do the speeding, the fork doesn’t do the over-eating, and the knife doesn’t do the stabbing. Just ask the UK about that last one. Since handguns were banned there in 1997, knife attacks have risen exponentially…almost as if one implement was replaced by another.
None of these facts are lost on modern Democrats, and while they’re obviously not that bright, they’re not that stupid either. This has always been about control.
The article is misleading, The lower receiver always contains the serial number and the integral components absolutely necessary for weapon function. They cannot be replaced by aftermarket pieces, They can in fact , once destroyed, never be replaced by another one that has no serial number. The remaining parts are used as spare or replacement parts for legal guns that need repair, and therefore have no value in recreating any weapon..
Any weapon lower receiver, which always carries the serial number, once destroyed has, in fact, removed one gun from existence. New lower receivers can be bought but have serial numbers and are subject to all laws pertaining to firearms purchase.
Greenfield should stick to the journalistic fields he claims in his byline.
You are incorrect. Lowers without serial numbers can be created without much issue. I can do whatever I want
You do realize that i can go online and buy lower recievers all day long with no serial number correct? They are the spooky “ghost” guns. And with a drill and a router i can have a lower reciever in about 2 hours. Which also iirc it is 8 states that require a serial number on a home made gun. So as long as i do not intend to sell the weapon it will never need a serial number, in my state.
The trigger assemblies, pins, screws, and even the grips can be taken off/out and resold. And if a not, again a quick trip to the local sporting goods store and they have everything i need.
Gun buy backs don’t work since criminals are unlikely to turn in their guns for anything its just a opportunity for liberal pinheads to make big headlines in the daily news rags or apparencies on some fake news program like TODAY,GMA SUNDAY MORNING and 60 MINUTES of in TIME and NEWSWEEK or USA TODAY
Only the intellectually-lazy or the ignorant masses actually believe in the “gun control” ideology. It’s never been a sincere effort to combat crime and only about imposing an unwanted set of values upon others. It wins votes from the uninformed, ignorant of facts voters – that’s why they push it. As stated many times before, banning guns will do one thing only, it will disarm law abiding people.