wannabeagunsmith
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LOL it was just a trainer!
"Rocket Launchers" turned in at L.A. gun buy backl
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Ehtereon11B
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I just watched the video on CNN. They way the police officer was holding it didn't show the bold "TRAINER" on the side but it is easy to tell because of the green tape. The gold band with black indicates it was a live round at one point with an HE warhead. But AT4s are one shot wonders and many are turned into sub-caliber 9mm trainers or inert trainers for weight purposes.
The rest of the video I just cried at. All those ARs. I saw a bipod G3 on there as well. All going to be melted down because of panic selling. And for what? A 50 or 100 dollar gift card to TGI Fridays? Some of those firearms were worth thousands. It would make more sense to bring them to an FFL and sell them to someone else. Open up your market from "LAPD" to nationwide. In the panic buy, someone will pay top dollar over a LAPD gift card.
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The rest of the video I just cried at. All those ARs. I saw a bipod G3 on there as well. All going to be melted down because of panic selling. And for what? A 50 or 100 dollar gift card to TGI Fridays? Some of those firearms were worth thousands. It would make more sense to bring them to an FFL and sell them to someone else. Open up your market from "LAPD" to nationwide. In the panic buy, someone will pay top dollar over a LAPD gift card.
/rant.
ABC News website has a pretty good slideshow with pictures of some of the turn ins.
Unmistakable is a bin containing a number of handguns including an RST-4 Ruger Standard Auto .22, a Luger, a K or N frame S&W and an older Colt revolver which looked like an Army Special or Official Police.
A number of Military type sporter rifles can also be seen and one must wonder if these guns were actually turned in or seeded into the pot from Police Evidence lockers to make the turn in appear more successful than it really was...
Local Police have tried the gun buy back scheme before and what they had turned in were mainly rusted to uselessness single shot shotguns, broken nonfunctioning saturday night special type handguns and a couple of nicer handguns some little old lady had lying around that belonged to a long deceased husband.
It is speculated that most the money paid out was used to either purchase drugs or went for buying a more functional weapon.
The buy back scheme has not been attempted here since...
Don't trust the Media or vocally anti gun Police and Local Government on anything they say that denotes success in the war against guns.
Most of the time it simply isn't true.
Unmistakable is a bin containing a number of handguns including an RST-4 Ruger Standard Auto .22, a Luger, a K or N frame S&W and an older Colt revolver which looked like an Army Special or Official Police.
A number of Military type sporter rifles can also be seen and one must wonder if these guns were actually turned in or seeded into the pot from Police Evidence lockers to make the turn in appear more successful than it really was...
Local Police have tried the gun buy back scheme before and what they had turned in were mainly rusted to uselessness single shot shotguns, broken nonfunctioning saturday night special type handguns and a couple of nicer handguns some little old lady had lying around that belonged to a long deceased husband.
It is speculated that most the money paid out was used to either purchase drugs or went for buying a more functional weapon.
The buy back scheme has not been attempted here since...
Don't trust the Media or vocally anti gun Police and Local Government on anything they say that denotes success in the war against guns.
Most of the time it simply isn't true.
velojym
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It's almost funny how quickly people sling the "tinfoil hat" insult, as if it was somehow impossible for a group of power hungry tyrants to work together to oppress people.
Usually the term is heard from beneath a pile of sand, where the speaker keeps his or her head buried. There's a balance, and you can't claim that every little bit of happenstance is a vast (pick-a-wing) conspiracy, but it's well known that tyrants and would-be tyrants can and will maneuver circumstances and people to get what they want.
Just sayin'.
Usually the term is heard from beneath a pile of sand, where the speaker keeps his or her head buried. There's a balance, and you can't claim that every little bit of happenstance is a vast (pick-a-wing) conspiracy, but it's well known that tyrants and would-be tyrants can and will maneuver circumstances and people to get what they want.
Just sayin'.
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Maybe these specific people who turned in their stuff really should and really shouldn't have it. Because they're clearly crazy, incompetent or just plain scared of what they were turning in; so they shouldn't have them to begin with. What pisses me off is the all media hype on how "successful" this event was and encouraging more events like these. Never see this in TEXAS.
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Along with that thought....
One of the guys interviewed said he was turning in his step sons handgun but he was keeping all of his guns for HD/SD.
This is LA speak for "my step son is in jail and I'm getting rid of his gun (thats probably stolen) so he doesnt do another drive by with it and I get to keep the $100".
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