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In the discussion thread: L.A. gun buyback yields rocket launcher, assault weapons [View all]

Tue May 15, 2012, 03:52 AM

49. They don't sell them. They melt them down and make artwork.

Beck said the public is asked to put the weapons, without ammunition, into the trunks of their cars and officers will inspect them to make sure they are operable.

The LAPD runs each weapon to determine if they are stolen. Those that are not are shredded with the metal melted down and used to create artwork.
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87 replies	Author	Time	Post
L.A. gun buyback yields rocket launcher, assault weapons [View all]	ellisonz	May 2012	OP
one thing	gejohnston	May 2012	#1
No in this group it means you are taking away the peoples right to defend themselves from	doc03	May 2012	#2
There's a "b" in gobmint.	baldguy	May 2012	#14
This post was hidden by jury decision.	PavePusher	May 2012	#56
I'm totally with you on this.	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#3
If this effort prevents even one shooting...	ellisonz	May 2012	#12
What if the money spent on this program had been directed to the gang detail	Simo 1939_1940	May 2012	#19
I'd imagine the gang detail supports this program.	ellisonz	May 2012	#23
See, that's the difference between pro-rights and pro-restriction supporters.	Simo 1939_1940	May 2012	#39
The "pro-rights side" relies on narrow-mindedness and bullshit.	ellisonz	May 2012	#44
Seriously?! You need a source for the assertion that	Simo 1939_1940	May 2012	#86
You're the one making the claim they don't have enough resources.	ellisonz	May 2012	#87
Who do you think is paying for it?	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#48
Were all of the weapons turned in illegally possessed?	oneshooter	May 2012	#53
What does any of that have to do with anything?	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#62
Why should some politician risk his career over a pair of pocket pistols?	gejohnston	May 2012	#63
Maybe I missed something.	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#66
Mayor in photo op at station or office	gejohnston	May 2012	#70
Sons of Liberty?	gejohnston	May 2012	#29
Some of the guns are not even worth the value of the gift cards...	Maine23	May 2012	#4
If I can find a bunch of	gejohnston	May 2012	#5
Would not doubt you'd take advantage of this worthy program for your own profit.	Hoyt	May 2012	#10
Hey, they still get off the street	gejohnston	May 2012	#11
I have used one of these for my own profit before	Travis_0004	May 2012	#13
I don't think the idea was for you to use it to buy a more lethal weapon, but then you guys	Hoyt	May 2012	#15
I was never told what I was or was not allowed to do with the money	Travis_0004	May 2012	#35
Members of the gun culture are not nearly as morally pure as some here like to contend.	Hoyt	May 2012	#9
+1,000,000,000	baldguy	May 2012	#16
let me fix that for you	gejohnston	May 2012	#18
Then fine, you have little need for a gun if you avoid those folks. Yet you still pack and promote	Hoyt	May 2012	#24
yes and no	gejohnston	May 2012	#27
A liberal criminologist with credentials that far exceed yours and mine	Simo 1939_1940	May 2012	#20
More of the "b" word from you, I see. n/t	PavePusher	May 2012	#58
Mirror, mirror, on the wall...	PavePusher	May 2012	#57
So I guess you support making money off an honest attempt by city government to help control crime?	Hoyt	May 2012	#59
Easy way to prevent that, ya know- just stop these security theater 'buybacks'.	friendly_iconoclast	May 2012	#73
At bottom, it's a bet that any of those guns would have ever been used harmfully,	petronius	May 2012	#6
How much do you want to bet	ManiacJoe	May 2012	#7
You know how scary a used LAW rocket tube is!	oneshooter	May 2012	#8
How much you want to bet it's not?	baldguy	May 2012	#21
It would be a huge miscarriage of justice if someone who had a stolen real, live, military weapon...	slackmaster	May 2012	#22
Why isn't it a miscarriage of justice when any firearm is stolen & turned in like this?	baldguy	May 2012	#31
How dare you misattribute my position? I've made my opinion on buy-backs abundantly clear, baldguy.	slackmaster	May 2012	#36
I think my representation of your position entirely accurate.	baldguy	May 2012	#38
I think giving people a way to dispose of potential evidence of crimes...	slackmaster	May 2012	#42
So, I didn't misrepresent your position at all, in any way.	baldguy	May 2012	#43
Nope. Your title on reply #31 misrepresents my position. I'll explain it to you one more time.	slackmaster	May 2012	#55
I am in for $10 since the article specified that that there was no rocket with it.	ManiacJoe	May 2012	#30
"The article"? Which one of the six different articles I've posted are you referring to?	baldguy	May 2012	#32
The one in the OP, of course.	ManiacJoe	May 2012	#34
They didn't get mine	era veteran	May 2012	#52
I bet you a thousand dollars.	AtheistCrusader	May 2012	#61
Hoyt is not accepting my $10 bet.	ManiacJoe	May 2012	#68
You seem to have forgotten your phony 'bet'...	friendly_iconoclast	May 2012	#72
I'll take that bet.	Angleae	May 2012	#80
Hopefully they'll sell these soon.	ileus	May 2012	#17
I don't think that is the idea, but I'm sure you are crying over all those guns going to "waste."	Hoyt	May 2012	#25
wouldn't count on it.	gejohnston	May 2012	#28
My brother bought almost 300 from the county several years back	ileus	May 2012	#37
Guns aren't like pets...	ellisonz	May 2012	#45
Both require care and feeding.	ManiacJoe	May 2012	#46
Guns never wake you up in the middle of the night...	ileus	May 2012	#51
They don't sell them. They melt them down and make artwork.	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#49
A rocket launcher without a rocket is just an empty tube. N/T	GreenStormCloud	May 2012	#26
I see a Troll Science comic coming out of this.	NewMoonTherian	May 2012	#33
Estes model rockets.	Remmah2	May 2012	#40
Oooooo, thank you!!	PavePusher	May 2012	#60
I have a couple of LAW tubes hanging in the tack shed.	oneshooter	May 2012	#41
A man without a rocket launcher is just a man. N/T	Starboard Tack	May 2012	#50
That is a trivial amount of guns. Much ado about very little.	GreenStormCloud	May 2012	#47
Wonder how many will wind up drop guns. nt	Union Scribe	May 2012	#54
hmm...	DragonBorn	May 2012	#64
Great thread.	Major Hogwash	May 2012	#65
Me too. I have some old junk guns I would love to exchange for gift cards. N/T	GreenStormCloud	May 2012	#67
I've never heard of old junk guns before.	Major Hogwash	May 2012	#69
ellisonz you and I do not hold the same....	WinniSkipper	May 2012	#71
Just goes to show how overtaken with dogmatism some posters here are...	ellisonz	May 2012	#74
We are in good company	gejohnston	May 2012	#75
Actually, I do question the idea that somthing that one person calls "common sense" is automatically	slackmaster	May 2012	#76
You're going to compare democracy with the scientific method and measuring tools?	ellisonz	May 2012	#77
actually,	gejohnston	May 2012	#78
Yes, in a sense that may be too abstract for you to understand without some help	slackmaster	May 2012	#79
You are perfectly free to regard Sergeant Colon as a role model:	friendly_iconoclast	May 2012	#81
How many of these "guns" were locked up on a Hollywood	Glassunion	May 2012	#82
Ha! I had forgotten that one: "LAPD gets swindled, buys back de-milled movie replicas"	friendly_iconoclast	May 2012	#84
"That's 1,673 guns that won't be stolen"	Nuclear Unicorn	May 2012	#83
Here's a closeup of the big, bad, scary, rocket launcher. Note the word "TRAINER" on it!	Johnny Rico	May 2012	#85

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