ATF metal shear meets SC trap

[Brian Dudley]

Get a load of this SC package I picked up over the weekend. At one time the ATF deemed it necessary to de-Mill this gun. They couldn't use a metal saw. So they just stuck it in a very heavy duty shear.

What a shame.

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[Steve Huffman]

Sick !

[Bill Murphy]

Well, there is a forend in the deal. I would like to see the buttstock.

[Brian Dudley]

Buttstock is not original. Forend, monoblock and some internals was about all that was good in the deal.

[Bill Holcombe]

What is demilling and why would they?

[Brian Dudley]

Demilling is the term they use to destroy a firearm or perminately render it inoperable.

Usually this mean cutting the receiver in half. I don't know why they would have cut the barrel in half on this one as well.

[John Campbell]

Thank God that government officials have kept another death-dealing Parker trap gun out of the hands of deranged criminals. Now I can sleep content.

[edgarspencer]

Demilling is the term they use to destroy a firearm or perminately render it inoperable.

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Actually it comes from De-Militarize. As in rendering a military component ( weapon, vehicle, aircraft, etc) no longer functional.

[Destry L. Hoffard]

Let's destroy this gun then send it back out into the world for parts! Bizarre....

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad it at least got out for that. But what's the mind set there really? So strange.


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[Dean Romig]

Hmmm.... an ivory diamond inlaid in the forend wood :cool: I wonder if that Parker had belonged to Kevin McCormack at one time :shock:

[Brian Dudley]

Or maybe some Weatherby connection.

[John Havard]

What an abomination!

[Mike Franzen]

Brian those remains should be mounted on a board and displayed as a reminder what people in government are capable of doing. It should carry a warning sign that apathy and ignorance result in this kind of assault on our 2nd amendment rights.

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Now the powers at be are trying to ban certain types ammo, A certain way to render an arm useless, reloaders will be next in the glass! gary

[Jerry Harlow]

My Dept. of Game saws in half their confiscated guns and then stands around at the annual big hunting show in the capital city and imply to you "just look what happens when we catch you with one dove over the limit" or whatever. No matter the value of the gun. Then each year they increase the license fees because they need more money.

I asked my legislator to introduce a bill that required them to auction them off to the highest FFL bidder, use the money for them instead of increasing fees, but I got a kind reply that there was no interest in doing this.

[John Campbell]

Now let me get this straight… Feds catch drug dealers. Then seize their Porsche and Lear jet as a result of the "crime." They then auction off the Porsche and Lear jet for money.

But when they seize a highly engraved Parker SC as part of a "crime," they chop it into bits.

Makes sense to me.

[Rick Losey]

had a friend whose brother was a officer (i forget capt or lt) in a city police department- and was at one of those buy backs

an old lady came in with a pair of colt saa she said belonged to her great uncle who was a buffalo soldier. He asked if he could put the woman in touch with a licensed collector - the guns were a piece of history and the woman could obviously use the cash

he was told no- and they were destroyed

hear say - but i had no reason to doubt him

[Jeff Davison]

What I find particulalry odd is that the local PD here sell their used guns on an auction site when they're finished with them. Doesn't make sense.

[Bill Holcombe]

Texas Parks and Wildlife does a private auction for FFL holders only, at least they used to.

State law in Texas permits police departments to sell confiscated weapons as long as they are not evidence that needs to be held for a crime--No Contests plea bargains and such.

Most of the larger departments don't though. Mostly because all the weapons they sieze are largely junk and not worth the trouble. Though I have been told that Harris County (houston) at one time did and may still hold a private auction for FFL holders.

[Ed Blake]

Some police department bought it from some fool for probably $100.

[Stephen Hodges]

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[Jerry Harlow]

Does anyone really believe if he had not acquired that gun that he would have given up on getting one and shot no one?

[Stephen Hodges]

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[Scott Weiser]

Hmmm.... an ivory diamond inlaid in the forend wood :cool: I wonder if that Parker had belonged to Kevin McCormack at one time :shock:

Good eye. It's ridiculous that the government is confiscating anything that has ivory on it, even an ivory bead on a front sight that might have been legally taken a hundred years ago.

[Richard Flanders]

I have a pilot friend who was in the Coast Guard. They always had a clays thrower on the fantail and guns they could check out. They obtained a new set of guns at some point and he was instructed to demil the old ones, including at least one Parker. He cut them up and tossed them overboard. Don't you just feel safer now??? Who invented government anyway??

[Mike Franzen]

I remember seeing Mario Cuomo debate Alan Keyes several years at the local university. Cuomo started telling us that Americans aren't capable of making good choices and need to be lead in the right direction. He said that Independence is a myth and the sooner we all realized that the better off we would be. At that point many of us walked out. Who elects people like this?