Article – The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

Remember, kids…when the other side doesn’t like something that our side does that is perfectly legal..well..thats a “loophole”.

When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.

“Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said. “I will not allow our city government to profit from our community’s pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents.”

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.

This is interesting because I’ve done a bunch of business with Gunbusters on GunBroker. Theyre an excellent source for getting spare parts for a gun ‘just in case’. The pearl-clutching in this article is priceless. If recycling gun parts is somehow a safety problem for the public, then by extension the purchase of spare parts through other channels should be just as much of a (non)problem. That is, of course, the direction this will eventually go to as more and more parts will be considered controlled or, more likely, prohibited from distribution through various means….social pressure on carriers, advertisers, etc.

The culture war never stopped, guys…sometimes it just quiets a bit as folks reposition themselves in their trenches.

 

6 thoughts on “Article – The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.

  1. How many political types have you ever know thst are totally honest. Most of this crap that escapes their pie holes are just these feckless morons attempting to be stylish. Look how well that has worked out for the Sanctuary City and States crowd. Isn’t all that much fun when reality comes knocking.
    Flint is a shit hole. A part of the the Greater Metro area known here as Detoilet. Hopefully soon someone may locate the handle and flush the entire mess down the drain.

  2. A question,as these are a commercial sale as opposed to private is a FFL not required to enter a 4473 in a book? What allows these non private entities to do what I believe would be a felony?

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