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In an echo of the Biblical vision of beating swords into ploughshares, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in California said this week it would melt approximately 3,400 confiscated firearms and use the steel as concrete reinforcement.
The weapons will be melted into steel reinforcing bar, better known as ‘rebar,’ and transformed into elements of construction for upgrades in freeways and bridges in Arizona, California and Nevada.
In all, 5.25 tons of guns will be melted this year in the annual event that goes beyond the call of duty set out in the California Penal Code, which says weapons unable to be sold to the public or returned to their owners must be destroyed.
“This activity transforms weapons that were intended or used to inflict harm into a product that improves our landscape and economy in Southern California,” said Mark Olson, general manager at the Gerdau Steel Mill in Rancho Cucamonga, which donates its furnaces for the purpose.
"In all, 5.25 tons of guns will be melted this year in the annual event that goes beyond the call of duty set out in the California Penal Code, which says weapons unable to be sold to the public or returned to their owners must be destroyed."
ReplyDeleteSo if the firearm couldn't be legally resold or returned to the original owners, it's destroyed. Not a big deal. These would be firearms that have had serial numbers ground off, or barrels cut down below legal length, etc.
At least you admit these guns will be used for nefarious purposes, but still you wouldn't support a nationwide effort to do the same to 1000's of thousands of guns across this country.
Delete"At least you admit these guns will be used for nefarious purposes"
DeleteI didn't admit that at all Anon. If the guns are illegal to possess as in the examples I gave, they certainly cant be resold as the other guns were.
"These would be firearms that have had serial numbers ground off, or barrels cut down below legal length, etc. "
DeleteIf those are the kind of firearms, then surely they are intended for nefarious (illegal) purposes. If you stop word twisting everything, you wouldn't come off as so dishonest, but that's hard for a dishonest gun loon.
The only person that's twisting words anon is you. SS twisted nothing.
DeleteI quoted the gun loons words Anon., but nice dishonest try, just like the rest of the kill crazy gun loons.
DeleteThis is a wonderful initiative. So many guns that will never be misused again. And rebar does more good than harm.
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