To be able to say a gun is destroyed, disposal companies crush or cut up a single piece that federal law classifies as a firearm: the receiver or frame that anchors the other components and contains the required serial number. The businesses can then sell the remaining parts as a kit: barrel, trigger, grip, slide, stock, springs — essentially the entire gun, minus the regulated piece. [More]
That’s breathless “real reporter” Mike McIntire’s big scoop?
The Newsraper of Record doesn’t trust its readers with any part of what was once a firearm and demands those be reserved for that violence monopoly they want to see imposed?
Not that I’m defending the economic fascist “public/private partnership” gun destruction companies, even if some unintentional good does come out of their little sweetheart deals…
[Via Lawrence P]
Watched a video a while back of a “man” who decided to “take a stand against gun violence” by cutting up his AR rifle.
He cut the barrel in half. The saw never got close to the receivers.
Legally, he still has a gun; the receivers (particularly the lower) are intact so the gun is not destroyed. I’d bet it would still fire, albeit one round at a time, manually cycling the action.
With the receivers intact and the stock still attached, all he succeeded in doing was manufacture a short-barrelled rifle.
On camera. Without a license.