Comments on: Why Are Parts From Federal Agency Guns Turning Up in Crime Scene Weapons?

By: LKB

LKB — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 22:29:21 +0000

In reply to Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR. What’s the basis for a lawsuit? If waste / incompetence were grounds for a citizen lawsuit against the feddies, every agency out there would be slammed. Only potential avenue I can see is if there is some federal law / regulation governing the disposition of surplus federal property. But the problem is that I doubt there is a private right of action to enforce it.

By: John Proud Maga

John Proud Maga — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 13:21:45 +0000

The liberals want law enforcement to be the only people with guns. Near as I can tell, law enforcement should be the last people that are armed.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 03:38:31 +0000

The end result of pursuing workforce ‘diversity’ at any cost, is the complete absence of any sort of standards in hiring said diversity.

By: .40 cal Booger

.40 cal Booger — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:57:30 +0000

The top leading criminal thing found at gun crime scenes is the ATF.

By: Stoutcat

Stoutcat — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 13:23:01 +0000

“[T]he DEA realized that the barrel and slide came from a DEA gun that was to be destroyed in 2019.”

Are we sure it was just the barrel and the slide, and not.. you know, the whole freaking gun?

By: DJ9r

DJ9r — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 12:56:45 +0000

“Pistol parts, aside from frames, aren’t usually serialized, so it isn’t clear how the origin of the parts was discovered, but…”

Glocks have the same serial number applied to the frame, slide, and barrel. Only the frame is designated as “the gun”, so as long as the frame gets destroyed, legally “the gun” has been destroyed. But the barrel and slide are the most expensive parts of a factory Glock, so it’s not surprising that those parts are showing up on the black/gray market if they are not being secured at every point of their trip to be destroyed.

By: Dude

Dude — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:51:54 +0000

In reply to LKB. Feds crushed two 95 Japanese market Nissan GT-Rs that were five years short of the magical 25 year import rule. One of them was an iconic car from the movie The Fast and the Furious. Obviously, they could have sold them to an out of the country buyer. But the feds wanted them crushed because reasons.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 23:29:49 +0000

In reply to LKB. H'mm. Lawsuit challenge time?

By: LKB

LKB — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 20:30:43 +0000

In reply to Geoff “I’m getting too old for this shit” PR.

The cited article noted that the guns to be destroyed were not ones from crimes, etc., but were “employee issued firearms.”

That’s right. When the feddies upgrade, instead of recouping some of the cost by selling the used guns (most of which probably haven’t been fired except during training and annual qualification) to someone like GT Distributors (who then resells them to the public or other LE departments), or perhaps send them to the CMP, our government is instead destroying them.

Complete (and intentional) waste of taxpayer purchased property. Because gunz.

By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR

Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR — Sun, 20 Oct 2024 15:59:31 +0000

It’s slimy, but it isn’t nefarious.

Legally, the serialized frame is the gun, so that gets cut up and the remaining parts are bagged and sold as a ‘parts kit’, much the same way Sten sub-machineguns were sold for75 bucks back in the 1980s.

And with Polymer-80 80-percent kits being sold again after the SCotUS case is concluded next June, that’s going to be an agreeable way to put together a Glock clone, with OEM Glock parts, slide, and barrel.

As far as I’m concerned, every gun ordered to be destroyed should be dealt with that way…