Shocking pictures. (you have been warned)

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I see alot of anti "commie gun" sentiment, as though the policies and beliefs of the old Soviet bloc are somehow manifested in the gun itself.
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It's not so much the policies and beliefs as the workmanship.

Now is the time for the world to realize that there are no commie guns, no Yankee guns, no third world guns, but all guns created unique and special in the eyes of shooters everywhere.
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"Unique" and "special" in the "Special Olympics" sense, anyway.

What I saw in those photos were guns, many still in their factory wrappers, that never got the chance to save a home invasion victim, never got to spend a cold day at the range, never realized their potential.
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Their potential was pretty much limited to waving in the air while shouting political slogans. And executing the occasional dissident, of course.

Of course now they'll be demonstrating and executing with top quality German made guns, but I guess that's neither here nor there.
 
Poor economics, bad business decision.

That scrap steel will never bring enough money to supply an army with HK's at what they cost.
 
I served in the time of the M16A1 and the 1911. And I saw them phased out by "better" arms. And we hated the replacements.

"Commie" arms are what they are. Durable arms in interesting calibers that do the job. They are designed for troops who probably would rather not be serving, and have an important place in history.

Don't hate the gun, hate the regime.:rolleyes:
 
The wastefulness of the government is astounding. This summer, I saw a storeroom holding quite a few printers, monitors, laptops, etc prior to sending them off to be destroyed. Not because they were all busted, but because they had been replaced or weren't needed.
I'm not shocked in the least at thousands of perfectly functioning firearms destroyed. I believe our very own .gov dumped a load of Thompsons on a Pacific island to rust away...
 
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:( I'd buy them :(
 
So rather than a boot on a neck, it's a steamroller on a pile of guns.

The intent is the same
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Hold on,

In the main topic HK is SCRAPPING the weapons for metal,

The pictures on this page are anti related.

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I believe our very own .gov dumped a load of Thompsons on a Pacific island
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Know where that is? I have a boat.
 
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Hmm. when it happened i made a thread here, so within those years this topic still comes back up. TT-s and Makarovs were seized from criminals and were NIBs, Colts were US donation. Shame they were destroyed, but it was a requirement for the HK deal.

But I'd be careful expressing your views on my country, like "occasional dissident execution". Who do ya think we are? I was not happy over the gun destruction, as many others who actually have put their lives on the front, not polichickens who make decisions in the safety and comforts of their offices and have other people taking the heat.

By percentage we have been one of the US biggest allies in Iraq and Afghanistan, not some nameless country in Africa.

Ahh, who am I kidding, there's US and THEM, we're THEM, so that's it.
 
I see this kind of carnage every day....I work at a salvage yard and it makes me sat to see a 5,000lb grandwagoneer crushed. but then again guns just are just a tool for defance, rember?
 
But I'd be careful expressing your views on my country, like "occasional dissident execution".
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What are you gonna do, execute me? :neener:

Who do ya think we are?
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Dunno, but going by the whininess, I'm guessing Germany.

In all seriousness, though, I don't know where you are and am not making any comments on it. I'm just making fun of junk "commie" guns and their common uses. Show me some pictures of some nice British game rifles or engraved Winchester 21s being tossed out and I'll whine with the rest of you.
 
It would take nearly a thousand handguns to equal one ton of scrap steel, which is worth about 200 bucks. Those same 1,000 surplus handguns could have been sold to a U.S. importer for $20 each. Let's do the math here, and we'll understand why countries like Estonia never achieve the prosperity of first rate nations.

As far as HK goes, well, I've always found them to cost twice what they're worth. I'll take a Colt or Smith any day over Kraut bullet throwers.
 
Our military does similar things. There are yards full of "demilled" items that civilians cannot buy which are destroyed at our expense. Truly wasteful, but due to various agreements our tax dollars are flushed down the toilet. Remember the day of the war surplus jeeps you could buy?
 
I believe our very own .gov dumped a load of Thompsons on a Pacific island
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and on the way back make sure you videotape the 'unfortunate boating accident' in which they are all 'lost' :D:D
 
The reason why so much property is destroyed rather than sold as surplus is LIABILITY!

Lawyers and insurance companies run the world. Its much cheaper to destroy surplus, than to pay claims to folks looking to get rich thru some ambulance chaser.

I highly doubt HK was worried about the quality of those guns competing with theirs.

Yes it would be nice to have them available for purchase here, but until some of the import bans are lifted that ain't gonna happen and theres really no other place in the world they could go to be offered to the general public for purchase.

So what if anything else are they worth other than scrap?
 
not only are piles of weapons destroyed by our own .gov (M14s, m16s, etc). Surplus hummvees are cut in half and destroyed too. Because we're the .gov and were better than you.:rolleyes:
 
I would gladly take in a dog to foster than let them put the dog to sleep. I foster for a excellent rescue and I alert them to dogs that need saveing. I would rather buy a gun and take it out to the range than destroy them. :(
 
A good reason to hate H&K.
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honeastly I wanted to buy and H&K pistol but there is now way in :cuss::cuss::cuss::cuss::banghead: I'm going to now and I can't believe that Because H&K "gave them a discount" they did it. You could sell all of those beautiful guns and use the cash to buy all of your new fancy pistols.
But what do you expect our government passed a 700,000,000,000 dollar bail out with that kind of money every man woman an child in America could get a little over 2,200 dollars and everybody who has a morgage under 75,000 dollars could get it paid off. I think its becoming more and more clear governments are selfish.:fire:
 
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