Benchmade gun destruction

I see sparks and what looks like maybe an unharmed 1100 without a barrel, any details?

Wouldn’t shock me though. Like shotgun folks throwing semiauto rifle owners under the bus. “Ahh, they won’t ever come after us.” Thinking.

I don’t see an issue here. They make good knives and help law enforcement destroy guns that are used in crimes, confiscated or otherwise submitted for destruction. No biggie.

The Liberal said:

I don’t see an issue here. They make good knives and help law enforcement destroy guns that are used in crimes, confiscated or otherwise submitted for destruction. No biggie.

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IN a time of scarce resources, selling them intact or the parts is a better response. Otherwise, everyone else's taxes go up. No biggie other than government waste and destruction of valuable assets.

The Liberal said:

I don’t see an issue here. They make good knives and help law enforcement destroy guns that are used in crimes, confiscated or otherwise submitted for destruction. No biggie.

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Are you sure, you are not at all concerned that they make “xenophobic, automatic” knifes?

https://www.benchmade.com/automaticknives.html

jmorris said:

Are you sure, you are not at all concerned that they make “xenophobic, automatic” knifes?

https://www.benchmade.com/automaticknives.html

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...it’s a knife.

The Liberal said:

...it’s a knife.

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Without a human, it has the same killing capability of a belt fed machinegun, tank or nuke.

I thought certain objects were inherently evil in and of themselves, just by name?

They have laws against them there too.

http://www.knifeden.com/knife-laws-in-oregon/

boom boom said:

IN a time of scarce resources, selling them intact or the parts is a better response. Otherwise, everyone else's taxes go up. No biggie other than government waste and destruction of valuable assets.

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It's common practice to destroy guns after the case is closed. Unfortunately the police department can't just list the guns from the evidence room up for auction as easily as retired vehicles or unclaimed merchandise.

Guess the Mayor would like them to stay in business. Not sure this is going to help them much/any though.

The fact that the Police posted the pictures to their site is only a political stunt, and Benchmade should have know better than to get sucked into the political crap. Has Benchmade posted a comment on this?

Regardless of the inevitable fate of the firearms in question, Benchmade screwed up big time. I'd wager that an extreme majority of their clientele are gun owners.

Personally, I've always felt they were on the spendy side for EDC knives and prefer the style and operation of US made Kershaws anyway. But that didn't mean I'd never buy one. Now I won't.

Watching 2A fanatics lose their minds in the FB comments is its own case for gun control. Too many “I’m going to shoot my benchmade with all my manly guns to show those socialist cucks they messed with the wrong man” to count.

I’m pretty sure the gun community is the only group of people that hears about a mass shooting and immediately wonders what the fate of the guns used is. Too bad we gun owners don’t get as collectively outraged over humans getting destroyed.

And yes, I know THR is a more elevated level of discourse. The public Facebook comments are not flattering to gun owners, and although there’s a lot of gun owners on that thread, there are not that many from Oregon or Oregon City, but there’s plenty of locals watching that cluster blow up on their police departments page. Way to confirm biases against gun ownership by suspicious locals, gun community...

I used to like benchmade, don’t they know that altering long guns into shorter guns is illegal according to the ATF?!?

Labguy47 said:

I used to like benchmade, don’t they know that altering long guns into shorter guns is illegal according to the ATF?!?

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I suspect you missed the point.

The Liberal said:

I suspect you missed the point.

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Not at all. I was just trying to make the best of a sad situation.

The Liberal said:

I suspect you missed the point.

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I am pretty sure he did get it as he was making a joke in his post.

Police have been destroying, or dumping (usually out in deep ocean for large coastal city P. D.s) for decades. It's only a "biggie" if they get rid of some particularly historic or important firearm.
Thousands of new guns are being made these days, much to the chagrin of "The Liberal," I'm sure.

People getting their feeling hurt on social media once again.

Departments destroy guns, dope and whatever is being disposed from their property rooms every day. I can see a small department having a large company destroy the few guns they might have to get rid of. The dept's social media person needs to be canned. There was no point in that post. They would have been better off buying a chop saw or angle grinder and doing it themselves.

The Liberal said:

I’m pretty sure the gun community is the only group of people that hears about a mass shooting and immediately wonders what the fate of the guns used is. Too bad we gun owners don’t get as collectively outraged over humans getting destroyed.

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Its quite clear to those of us actually in the gun community that you are certainly not part of it, if you really believe foolish statements like this one.

Holy snowflakey gun owners, Batman!