Los Angeles' gun buyback event to be held today

[AtheistCrusader]

23. Because it's a way of destroying evidence.

Filed off serial numbers can often be raised. Discarded guns in fields or trash cans, or you name it, can be ballistic fingerprinted and tested to see if they were used in crimes, and maybe tie some evidence to a person, following the chain of ownership of the weapon, etc.

If you turn in a gun to the police buy-back program, it gets cut in half and destroyed, usually melted down. No questions are asked. No serial numbers checked. No barrels fingerprinted. Etc.


You essentially have a foolproof way to dispose of a gun that was either stolen, or even used in a crime, in a manner that severs any evidence link between the person and the gun.

That seems, at the least, incredibly risky to me.