Confiscated Guns Melted

CBS-3 9 (Philadelphia) ^ | 3/24/05 | n/a

[kiriath_jearim]

Confiscated Guns Melted

Mar 24, 2005 6:15 pm US/Eastern

COATSVILLE, PA (KYW) It was a murderous meltdown Thursday as more than 3,000 guns dissolved at more than 3,000 degrees in a steel plant furnace.

The move comes as CBS 3’s Walt Hunter reports officials turn up the heat in hopes of getting deadly weapons off Philadelphia’s streets.

Every kind of caliber, every type of crime, and many still marked with the blood of their victims.

The roar of the weapons brought violence and death to city streets but now, following the roar of a steel plant furnace, they are about to disappear.

From their storage place at the police evidence room, the weapons were moved in a truck caravan under the close watch of swat teams to the ISG Steel Plant in Coatesville

With furnaces heated to more than 3,000 degrees, once the guns were dumped into the flames, they were gone for good.

For officers who often risked their lives seizing the weapons and for workers feeding the fires, it was a satisfying day.

Hunter says that now the molten lava of the melted guns will quickly be transformed into steel plates to protect troops in Iraq.

[ladylib]

This stupidity is from Oregon:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050325/COLUMN0101/503250306/1064

No pictures of guns in school.

[ARCADIA]

I am waiting for the book burning. You can't have those nasty cultural icons in a communist state.

[Sender]

Roaring, violence, death, streets...was this about Godzilla?

[ladylib]

Or at least for the school district to pay someone to go through all the history textbooks and black out the guns.

[ApplegateRanch]

Considering all the magnesium, aluminum, and plastics--maybe even some copper, tin and bronze--I would not want the "armor" made from such a bastardized alloy.

[Osage Orange]

Perfect example of Symbolism before Substance......

It's what the Left does....they know no different.

[BadAndy]

No bias in this story, nope, none at all.

[antiRepublicrat]

Why was that almost as disturbing as a Holocause photo?

[Marauder]

I cannot believe that a grown person wrote this tripe. It reads like a Dick and Jane primer, except for a couple of minor technical details, like molten lava.

Were these weapons made of igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic rock?

I'll bet this person votes, too.

[Charlespg]

saw on cnn that one of them was a rocket launcher,but their allready illegal,stupid liberals

[CGTRWK]

Self reliance is a culture, and gun rights are a big part of that.

The people who get warm and fuzzy over burning guns are no different from the Nazis who got warm and fuzzy burning Jewish books and art.

[Blood of Tyrants]

As if the criminals can't just steal more.

[Oztrich Boy]

I would not want the "armor" made from such a bastardized alloy.

I was thinking "would you really feel safe, protected by a plate of melted down Raven .25s?'

[AngryJawa]

Enough to make a grown man cry.

I was trying to comfort myself by imagining a dump truck full of Ravens, Lorcins, and other cheap POS's going into the smelter. Now that I know it included at least one Garand, I'm gonna cry.

[Rifleman]

Yep. Animists and waterheads that can't tell the difference between a gun and a picture of a gun or between a butter knife and a bowie knife. Unqualified to take tickets at a parking garage but teaching the kids.

[Gilbo_3]

For officers who often risked their lives seizing the weapons and for workers feeding the fires, it was a satisfying day.

should sell them at a discount raise funds for the police force

the only ones of any value were most likely 'liberated' by the police before the death march to the steel mill...

[gwmoore]

Good Afternooon,

What is probably left unsaid here is that the cops have already cherrypicked these over, and have "confiscated" anything worthwhile for keeping.

This is just another worthless propaganda stunt by the idjits in Philly, cheered along by the stupid Governor, who for some reason, enjoys support from a bipartisan base here in PA, people see Rendell as this smiling figure at sports events, and do not really look at his agenda.

A sad day indeed.

Keep the Faith for Freedom

Greg (looking out his front window at Philly in the distance)

[SASsySIGster]

I do have to commend the writer of the article for his fair and balanced reporting! /sarcasm off

[gwmoore]

I' didn't know that... darn, I didn't see the video

I would have thought that the "goodies" would have been cherrypicked, and that the "fodder" (Lorcins, Ravens, etc) were going in the pot, along with the rusted out POS and stuff with really damaged recievers, etc,

I had NO idea that "Nonreplacium" was being melted.

Now, I'm truly upset with the Idijits...I have figured that the "bread and circuses" routine was a dumb show for the cameras, but that someone would have had the foresight to remove the valuable stuff before the melt...

Keep the Faith For Freedom

Greg

[July 4th]

I was playing the Oregon Trail this weekend on my Apple II/e emulator. We played this game -all of the time- in grade school. One of the best parts of the game is when you have to "hunt for food," and shoot at wild animals. Historically accurate, yes. PC, no.