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In reply to the discussion: Los Angeles' gun buyback event to be held today [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)34. If it was ever found for any reason
then the process begins. Ballistic print, match any crimes? Find the manufacture's sales records. What retailer took it in shipment. Who bought it. Find that person. How did the gun move to a new owner, was it stolen, did that theft have any evidence that might expose the person responsible... etc.
Weapons are found like that all the time.
Go to a buyback program, get a 100 gift card, and the gun is destroyed in a foundry...
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If the drug dealers, gangs and violent people used the buy backs it would be worth it.
Remmah2
Dec 2012
#15
The problem with that line of thinking, as I see it, is that it is a missed opportunity to catch...
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#13
I've always wondered if the cops skimmed a few of the prime buybacks for personal use?
Remmah2
Dec 2012
#3
That's exactly right. Why dump it in McArthur Park Lake when the cops will give you cash for it?
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#6
The LAPD finds several hundred per year, mostly handguns, that were apparently ditched
slackmaster
Dec 2012
#19