You always hear about gun sales in the US, but you never hear about what happens to the guns at the end of their lifecycle. I assume guns wear out eventually, and I assume you can’t just chuck them in the garbage when they do. What happens to them?

  • Venator@lemmy.nz
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    18 hours ago

    I picked up some firearms a few years back from a lady that wanted to get rid of her deceased husband’s collection fast and for cash. One of them was not only in horrible shape, unsafe to fire, but it was illegal. Broke it down, recycled what could be, sold the few parts that were usable, then trashed the rest.

    How’d her husband die? Gunshot wound?.. 😅

    Sounds like you got rid of the murder weapon for her 😅 (j/k)

    • southsamurai@sh.itjust.works
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      7 hours ago

      Alas, cancer got him.

      But, I actually wouldn’t be surprised if it had been uses for something. It was badly sawn off, beat all to hell, rusty and had the stock just cut off. Then, the dude did some weird shit the the trigger mechanism where it was supposed to be super fast, but it allowed it to fire when the slide got racked.

      Hinky as fuck lol