Posted on 07/05/2022 5:21:54 AM PDT by marktwain
A $100 SKS or 10-22 is worth owning.
Run a quarter-inch drill bit about 0.5 inch into the barrel end. That should do it.
the Dallas Police sold it to a criminal who used it to kill someone else.
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False premise. (Dallas) Police or any other police cannot sell or transfer to an individual without having an FFL and complying with all requirements. That would include a Form 4473, background check, local or state requirements, etc. They could transfer to an FFL the firearms received at a “turn in” or “buyback” but I think the idea is to cut them up for scrap metal.
“Hopefully each one was checked to see if they’re connected to any crimes...and were then officially certified to be free of any suspicion. Anyone who bought a weapon that *hadn’t* been researched and certified is a fool.” [Gay State Conservative, post 16]
“...imagine one of the guns involved *was* used in a murder and,never having tested it,the Dallas Police sold it to a criminal who used it to kill someone else. The City of Dallas could be sued big time for negligently having failed to take that weapon off the streets.” [Gay State Conservative, post 22]
“...(Dallas) Police or any other police cannot sell or transfer to an individual without having an FFL and complying with all requirements...They could transfer to an FFL...but I think the idea is to cut them up for scrap metal.” [Skybird, post 43]
Law enforcement organizations must comply with state and local law in disposing of firearms confiscated in the performance of official duties, or turned in by citizenry.
Often, there are requirements other than restrictions on who can receive such firearms.
Early on in the trend toward “buybacks,” cities in Connecticut, or Rhode Island or some other New England state, collected the pieces thus turned in and had them melted down immediately. Commentators pointed out that this was in direct contravention of state law, which stated that any firearm obtained by police in performance of investigations or enforcement actions had to be held, until it was traced by serial number and cross-checked against the list of guns that had been stolen, or suspected to have been used in a crime. Unsurprisingly, nothing ever came of it.
Many law enforcement agencies around the country used to sell their confiscated guns in large lots to dealers, who resold them (or their parts) in compliance with federal and local law, and in compliance with restrictions placed by the selling agencies. Some guns were resold as is, some had to be stripped of usable parts, after which the frame or receiver had to be destroyed.
“29 gauge, huh? Bet that’s hard to find ammo...” [LouAvul, post 26]
“28ga with a barrel bulge...” [paulcissa, post 35]
A shotgun barrel of larger diameter, as created by a bulge, would actually be of a smaller gauge number.
“Gauge” refers to the number of spherical balls of a given diameter, that can be cast from a single pound of lead. Shotshells are mostly designated in this manner. Two exceptions: 410 bore, and 9mm Rimfire Shotshell (mostly a European item). 410 is often mistakenly called “410 gauge.” The number refers to the bore of the barrel in thousandths of an inch.
Many British publications have used the gauge number as a reference to relative bore size.
REF: your post number 38
Thanks for posting that large, clear image.
Other interesting pieces can be seen.
The slide-action shotgun atop the Winchester 12 isn’t a Remington 870. The latter has a straight line where the buttstock fits into the rear of the receiver.
Underneath this unidentified slide-action is what looks to be a Winchester 94 carbine, with the lever down and the bolt back.
The single-shot rifle beneath the Winchester 12’s forend looks like it might be a Winchester 67. Most Winchester single-shot rimfire rifles from the period (1930s-1960s) are ighly collectible today. Another single-shot Winchester 22 appears to be peeking out from under the shotguns piled atop and to the left of the Winchester 12.
The 22 rimfire autolaoding pistol at the near edge of the table, partly underneath the buttstock of the Winchester 12, appears to be a High Standard Model HB. One of the few early 22 autoloaders to challenge Colt’s Woodsman in accuracy; also highly collectible, even in the poor condition it seems.
Several break-top single-shot shotguns, possibly H&R Toppers, are poking out the pile in various locations. Not high-end guns, but strong and serviceable.
Appears the Ozarka water buyback was successful too.
On further inspection, it appears to be a Winchester 1200, not a Remington 870.
28 gauge were the only shotgun shells on the shelf for about 8 months at Walmart in my neck of the woods.
“On further inspection, it appears to be a Winchester 1200, not a Remington 870.” [marktwain, post 48]
I’ll defer to you on visual ID. All I could ascertain was that it wasn’t an 870.
The stock/receiver joint does look like that on a 1200. Contours of the upper left edge of the forend appear to be a close match with those installed on fancier 1200s.
Lower-end and utilitarian versions of the 1300 do not look like the image. But some higher-end 1300s sport a much-larger “beavertail”-style forend, with upper edges like the one in the image.
And the trouble that one buying the gun from the police is that if it *had* been used in a crime before having been sold to the police the new owner could,conceivably,be charged at some point with the crime that had been committed with it *before* he/she bought it from the police.
That's why I was saying "I hope the cops made sure each weapon was 'clean" before passing them on to new owners.
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