Question for LEOs and retired LEOs:

[Ranger Roberts]

My boss bought a dumptruck and found 2 MAC-10's with suppressors, loaded magazines and ammo. They were sealed in ammo cans and buried under sand in the bed of the truck. BTW, the serial numbers were drilled off of both guns.

It's funny that you said that, it just reminded me of something. About 2 years ago a local kid (his father works for the township, they are a real nice family) pulls into our dept and says he wants to turn in a handgun. He explains to me and my sergeant that he bought a car at a police auction somewhere near Philly and there was a terrible rattling in the dashboard. He and his father take the dash apart and found a Taurus Revolver (I can't remember the model but I think it was a .38) that was in pretty good shape, minus a few scratches. I just happened to be there when the kid came in, I wasn't the one handling the situation. I remember that the gun wasn't reported stolen. I have no idea what happened with the whole situation. When I get back to the station I am going to find out.

 

[BootBuckle]

Interesting--keep us in the loop. Sounds to me like some kid deserves a revolver!

 

[MD1775]

The last handgun arrest I had involved a 21 year old convicted felon that had recently finished a 6 month sentence for 1st degree assault with a firearm on school property. The two guns I recovered off of him were a rusted out revolver and a slightly less rusted Llama semi-auto that had an obliterated serial number. After being indicted, tried, and convicted what does he get? 5 years and all but 18 months suspended. Yeah, all these new gun laws are what we need..not actually KEEPING VIOLENT FELONS IN PRISON where they belong after they break the laws we already have in place.

 

[Twiki357]

I’m not law enforcement, but here in AZ, the law enforcement agencies can no longer destroy firearms that make it to their property rooms, whether crime guns or recovered stolen property with a locatable owner, they have to be sold off usually in large batches to FFL’s. My local pawn shop bought one of these boxes that included everything from a snub nose 22 with electrical tape holding the grips in place and one of those nasty black rifles (Otherwise IDed as a single shot 22LR saturated with black spray paint) to a LNIB Coly Python (I could only look, not touch) that the owner kept for himself.

 

[Old Guy]

Caribana shooter found not guilty. The Toronto Sun, March 5th 1998.

 

[RustyShackelford]

Rebar....

My local area had a big "gun buy back" a few days ago.
A local police chief involved in the event told the media the firearms collected at the event will be checked(to see if they are stolen or may be involved in a active criminal investigation) then converted into rebar(I think that's the correct spelling).
The event reportedly got about 99 working firearms. And yes, this time cops inspected the turned in items to make sure they were real, functioning guns.

It reminded me of a old Streets of San Francisco, a police drama on ABC in the 1970s. Actor Karl Malden played a gruff SFPD inspector. He once said the line about guns: "I wish we could take all the guns off the street & turn them into man-hole covers."

Rusty