How to destroy a gun...

cut it up with a angle grinder

go to hardware store, buy some liquid lucite, slowly put firearm in as to not create any bubbles, let dry, now yu have a neat paper weight.

I'd absolutely wait for a so-called buyback. Selling worthless garbage to the idiots for $100 isn't exactly "supporting" the antis -- they're supporting us.

P.S. Find a way to attach a bayonet lug to it and increase your profit by making it an "assault weapon".

It is supporting a buy-back. They can point to it as a sucess by getting an evil gun off of the streets. It ain't worth $50-$100 to me to give them a feather in their cap.

Double or triple charge a reload, 40' string, clamp and a tree to hide behind. least that's the country way.

It ain't worth $50-$100 to me to give them a feather in their cap.

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I'll second that!

Sig is actually running a "Cash for Clunkers" program right now!!!!!

Just saw it on their website, but that POS is worth $200 towards a new Sig......

if it qualifies, just like anything else "read the fine print"

I'll vote for a forge if you can get access to one. There may be some "dangerous" or otherwise "undesireable" guns that are made of good steel. You could beat the thing into a plowshare (or a billet) and make something else of it...like a knife.

You gotta figure that somewhere out there somebody has a Thompson up in the attic that their grandfather legally purchased back in the 20's...maybe nobody even knows it's up there...in granddads foot locker from WWI. That would be quite a find but you couldn't enjoy it much cause of club fed and all. That'd be something you'd want to admire just as briefly as you could manage and then beat into a plowshare...at it would have been made of pretty good steel...a shame...but that's the law and it isn't worth it at all.

If it has any useful parts at all, I give it to my local gunsmith.

Barring that, I usually disassemble the weapon and throw the pieces away, sans frame/receiver. The receiver eventually gets destroyed via cutting or filling. Trying to beat it takes a long time, wears me out, and is less destructive than you might think.

Plug the barrel, string to the trigger and find some cover. Repeat if necessary

1) Strip all parts from the frame/receiver

2) Torch cut frame/receiver in three places(ATF approved)

3) Sell parts kit on gunbroker*


*assuming it isn't a fire damaged gun.

A friend of mine loaded a cheap revolver with a cylinder full of ammo with a compressed charge of Bullseye and left it out for a thief to take. This is now probably illegal as a "mantrap" but he did it back when we were less considerate of the rights and health of criminals. Nobody took the bait, though.

I like SigfanUSAF's idea best.

A friend of mine loaded a cheap revolver with a cylinder full of ammo with a compressed charge of Bullseye

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Yikes. He wouldnt have any fingers to point at your friend in the line-up.

easy way, the a fore mentioned concrete bucket then into the trash. more thorough way whip up a batch of thermite (recipe can be found on the net) and reduce it to a puddle.
I wonder if I melted a machine gun then cast it as a tire iron and drove across state lines would I be guilty of illegally transporting a machine gun? after all once a machine gun always a machine gun.

HMMM the possbilities ok ok i got one, set up a bunker where its shrapnel safe. tie a string to the trigger, then load a round with the most violent powder out there if it is a pistol try to get some triple loads, if it is a rifle load pistol powder to the gills in it. take pictures shiw us what happens

+1 for SigFan's idea.

Just give it to me...no more problem!

take all parts that arent considered a firearm off then heat it up with a torch and hit it with a BAH (big @#$ hammer)

I've never destroyed a gun, tho I've destroyed a few parts that wouldn't measure up to BATF&E's yard stick. A chinese copy of a Sawzall did the job, no sweat.

If a buyback or turning it into the local PD isnt an option I would recommend a cutting torch, or a low cost alternative the sledge and hacksaw.

I've also salvaged the usable parts from guns I have destroyed or given them away to a gunsmith.

I wonder what Sig Sauer will be doing with the clunkers they receive?

What would Dranno do? Or some store bought acid?

We all have some Dranno in the house. Wonder if it would do much of anything?