Re police weapons collection drives. Are valuable ones kept by police or are they all destroyed?

Realist much? :rolleyes:

Yes all the police are racist. And they are all white you know.

And of course during the LA gun buy back in a city of 4 million they are going to remember the “brown faces” that turn in guns without taking names. Right back at you.:rolleyes:

Not all, but many. I would dare say most, in some areas. And many racists aspire to be police because, well, in what other job can you beat up or even “accidentally” kill a black man and get off with a mere slap on the wrist??? And that’s only if you are caught on video.

Not all officers are corrupt, but the system certainly is.

Years ago, when the UN tried to get the Bosnians and Serbs to disarm, I remember seeing a report on TV about how the UN inspectors were collecting plently of weapons, but it wasn’t making any difference.

Almost everything that was turned in was rusty old WW2-era junk that probably would blow up if you tried to fire it. And was probably turned in specifically for that reason.

^This, especially point #2. Kill 10 people sell the gun to the PD no questions asked. Really? Buyback programs are an awful idea.

What does this sentence mean? Just curious.

Here you only get immunity for possession, not for any crimes you may have committed with it.

“select fire” means it has a full-auto or burst mode. it’s therefore an unregistered Title II weapon and could be seized as such.

Selective fire weapons are regarded as machine guns under the law, and all machine guns must be registered. In the 1980s a law was passed which forbids any new machine gun registrations (so if you want to buy one, you can’t buy a brand-new one and then register it; instead you have to find someone who owns one that’s already registered and purchase it from him). At the time the law was passed, it allowed a grace period so that people who already owned machine guns which they had not yet registered (primarily military antiques) could get them all registered. But that grace period is long over. So even though it’s a military antique, the gun in question would technically also be an unregistered machine gun, and thus illegal to own.

I don’t mean walk up with blood on your hands, but get a non-threatening looking friend to sell your gun to the cops. With no name and no positive ID on who it is, wait a few weeks and the evidence should be destroyed. Now try as hard as they can they will never find the weapon that they melted and turned into a sliding board.

Yes watched the video. It was obviously a tragic accident. And he was prosecuted for manslaughter and convicted as he should have. I’m sure he joined up for the privilege of going to prison and being unemployable for life. What a deal. :rolleyes:

Thank you, jz and artemis.