I'd never participate in one of these programs. Don't want to see my hardware melted down, if I had no choice I'd call a museum instead.
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002076]It's not like it hasn't happened before, don't you remember killdozer? Dudes with too much money, too much time, and too easy access to weapons can kill untold amounts of innocents.[/QUOTE]
Killdozer was a fucking piece of construction equipment with cement around it, not a god damn collectors item like the T-34 Jacques is leaning on there.
Oh by the way, mind telling me how many "untold innocents" were killed in the whole killdozer incident?
[QUOTE=TestECull;39002096]I'd never participate in one of these programs. Don't want to see my hardware melted down, if I had no choice I'd call a museum instead.[/QUOTE]
What reason would there be to put a gun in a museum, unless it had real historical significance (ie: weapon of a school shooter or a weapon used to assassinate a high-ranking political figure?)
Of course, with all the people calling for more gun proliferation, I'm sure we'll see more shootings, and therefore more museum pieces, for decades to come. Public safety really means nothing to some people.
[QUOTE=Timebomb575;39002107]Killdozer was a fucking piece of construction equipment with cement around it, not a god damn collectors item like the T-34 Jacques is leaning on there.
Oh by the way, mind telling me how many "untold innocents" were killed in the whole killdozer incident?[/QUOTE]
dude, untold innocents means he can't tell you duhhh
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002109]What reason would there be to put a gun in a museum, unless it had real historical significance (ie: weapon of a school shooter or a weapon used to assassinate a high-ranking political figure?)
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Have you been to a war museum before? They're full of guns that were, get this, [I]used in wars[/I].
these people got ripped off
[editline]28th December 2012[/editline]
also great writing
"for the kind of rifle used in the Newtown tragedy"
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39001650]And yet, you could kill a dozen people with a correctly placed shot with an AT-4. Why it isn't highly illegal to own one astounds me.[/QUOTE]
I have no experience whatsoever with guns, so correct/dumb me if I'm wrong, but isn't this like saying "a correctly used clip of x rifle could kill 10+ people?" I mean couldn't like any lethal weapon (which is like anything) "used correctly" kill more than ten people?
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002076]It's not like it hasn't happened before, don't you remember killdozer?[/QUOTE]
Are you proposing we ban construction equipment and building materials?
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002076]It's not like it hasn't happened before, don't you remember killdozer? Dudes with too much money, too much time, and too easy access to weapons can kill untold amounts of innocents.[/QUOTE]
killdozer was a poor guy who owned a muffler shop and put ramshackle armor on a komatsu, not someone with much money or weapons
I actually totally see the point with this. You say "they should've auctioned these instead of turning them in", and sure, they would've made more money if they had done that. But that totally proves the points of this buyback - some people just have weapons lying around that they're too lazy to sell. Would they even report it if it had gone missing? Stolen? It's definitely a possibility that they wouldn't bother to do that, and just like that you have illegal guns out there again.
Sure, it's sad that they got an MP40 and other historical stuff, and I don't think they should melt them down just because of bureaucracy, but there's a reason why they're doing these buybacks.
[QUOTE=GunFox;39000066]They are empty and are one time use weapons.
It is a fancy tube that they just got the cops to fork over 100 bucks for.[/QUOTE]
suckers
I wonder if you'd be able to able to cheat the system for free money if you just kept building homemade guns out of scrap metal and selling them anonymously at buybacks..
[QUOTE=Ownederd;39000216]it's in their jurisdiction and they're destroying evidence[/QUOTE]
Evidence?
What?
[QUOTE=GunFox;39000131]One of the guns on the table looks like an M1 Garand. How sad. :([/QUOTE]
Actually I think that's an M14. Still sad though.
[QUOTE=Ownederd;39000093]the fact that people are selling ones that have yet to be used/discharged is what's concerning dude
yeah, excess military goods that we don't need being broken down and recycled, what a disaster[/QUOTE]
This may come as a surprise to you, but the military sells surplus ammunitions and misc. items. Such as used and demilled tubes.
Most the weapons turned in aren't any more dangerous than your average hunting/plinking rifles. Needs =/= wants. 'wants' are how America operates. I wanted an AR15. I wanted an AK47. I wanted a dildo bayonet for both of those. So I did. They're no more dangerous than my Marlin 60 or my Savage Edge. They just look mean as fuck.
[b] Moral of the story; that for 52,000,000 people, it's just a hobby and you can do whatever you want with it. Stop sucking media cock.[/b]
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002109]What reason would there be to put a gun in a museum[/quote] No reason to melt down perfectly useful hardware. You'd be surprised what museums will take.
[quote]ie: weapon of a school shooter [/quote] Yes, let's glorify these asswipes even more and give them yet more incentive to do such things.
A huge chunk of why these things happen in the first place is because it's an instant ticket to fame. Worthless twats that would normally just off themself in a basement will instead go on a rampage because they know it will make them a household name, that the media will blabber on about them for weeks afterwards, that it will be a 'thing'. If there's any weapon I would melt down, it'd be the weapons of people that do things like shoot schools up.
[quote]Of course, with all the people calling for more gun proliferation, I'm sure we'll see more shootings, and therefore more museum pieces, for decades to come. Public safety really means nothing to some people.[/QUOTE]
It has nothing to do with public safety. It's as easy to kill you with a car as it is with a knife, rifle, pistol, stun baton or pet attack dog. Hell, you can do it with your bare hands, we've had two such cases where someone was shoved in front of a subway train in the past month or so.
[QUOTE=gay_idiot;39002109]What reason would there be to put a gun in a museum, unless it had real historical significance (ie: weapon of a school shooter or a weapon used to assassinate a high-ranking political figure?)
Of course, with all the people calling for more gun proliferation, I'm sure we'll see more shootings, and therefore more museum pieces, for decades to come. Public safety really means nothing to some people.[/QUOTE]
WHY
WHY DO YOU NEED AN AK 747
THERES NO REASON TO HAVE IT
MARIJUANA NEEDLES
I saw some LAPD cops on the news walking away with a pretty good looking Nambu.
A fucking [I][B]Nambu.[/B][/I] I died inside.
[QUOTE=yawmwen;39000345]but the whole point is to get rid of these guns. the state has access to whatever armanents they need pretty much, they don't need to get some second-hand civilian guns.
guns with historical value are of course unfortunate to see go, but the majority of them aren't valuable in any way.
that's beside the point. most of those guns were probably unwanted and sitting around either picking up dust or being a hazard to whatever family lived around them. there is no reason to have these guns around, they should be recycled into something useful.[/QUOTE]
I got a couple buddies who participated in turning in their old crappy ass guns for the money. They then proceeded to buy new guns with the money. Pretty ironic.
Gun buybacks are a good place to get a new gun. You simply offer 50 bucks more than the government and you get something for way cheap.
Why the fuck do you need a rocket launcher.
[QUOTE=iusehax;39008251]Why the fuck do you need a rocket launcher.[/QUOTE]
Nice job reading, they had training versions. Training versions only fire 9mm tracer rounds
I might build a bunch of guns and turn those in too sometime
[QUOTE=iusehax;39008251]Why the fuck do you need a rocket launcher.[/QUOTE]
yeah these rocket launcher murders are getting out of hand
[QUOTE=Ownederd;39000636]i'm sorry but i love how you ask a overly personal question then go over to talking about how much you fantasize over historical firearms
i'm gonna say this in the least offensive way possible; you are borderline socially inept and you don't know the issue from the point of view of the person you're talking to[/QUOTE]
If you didn't want that asked you shouldn't have brought up how you lived in a group home.
So were any of those rocket launchers actually loaded? or were they all empty?
[editline]28th December 2012[/editline]
Oh wait, they were trainers. Thats pretty lame.
[QUOTE=iusehax;39008251]Why the fuck do you need a rocket launcher.[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck do you need a sports car?
So much for "a gun buyback won't ever work"
[QUOTE=McGii;39011063]So much for "a gun buyback won't ever work"[/QUOTE]
That depends, if you mean a mandatory buyback to get every single gun in the country, then no, it will not work.
[QUOTE=McGii;39011063]So much for "a gun buyback won't ever work"[/QUOTE]
you can say that when they get the other 300 million guns
Why the fuck would you sell any of these to the cops. They don't give you shit for them. I know the AT-4 is useless, but even I'd pay more than $100 for that.
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