demilling your own firearm

[bogey1]

i was trying to fix a handgun (mine) the other day, i couldnt fix it so i decided to destroy it. all i have left is the bent frame, slide, barrel. what should i do with it? do i have to report it to anyone?

[dmg1969]

OK...I have to ask:

1. What type of handgun?
2. What were you trying to fix?
3. Why did you decide to destroy it because you couldn't fix it?

Dave G.

[bogey1]

Originally Posted by dmg1969

OK...I have to ask:

1. What type of handgun?
2. What were you trying to fix?
3. Why did you decide to destroy it because you couldn't fix it?

Dave G.

it was a dragoon or something, just kidding. hungarian feg .32 cal i was trying to fix a lever on the frame, dont know what it is. i bent the lever so i decided to get rid of the gun. not worth paying to get it fixed, not worth the hassle to sell it and do a transfer, there a dime a dozen

[dmg1969]

Well, if it is not repairable, I would call a loacl gun dealer and ask what to do with it. They may take it off your hands or may steer you to your local law enforcement agency.

Dave G.

[SCOUT]

Wait for the next cash for guns program, turn it in for cash!!!!

[Frenchy]

You could always collect the guns you ruin this way and create a piece of art like others have done...

[knight0334]

Save it for one of those gun buy-backs and use the money you receive towards another gun. ...or if they are issuing other credits, use them as applicable.

No sense it getting nothing out a junk gun when you might be able to get a few bucks from the anti-gun Gestapo's budget. ...think about it, the irony. LOL

[Rule10b5]

Originally Posted by knight0334

Save it for one of those gun buy-backs and use the money you receive towards another gun. ...or if they are issuing other credits, use them as applicable.

No sense it getting nothing out a junk gun when you might be able to get a few bucks from the anti-gun Gestapo's budget. ...think about it, the irony. LOL

+1

And there is no agency to which you need report destruction of a firearm. Destroy it and trash it, if you want. Perfectly legal.

Personally, though, I wouldn't do that. I'd (if I weren't going to turn it in to a gun buy back for cash) call the PSP and drop it off there and get a receipt. I don't want my name associated with the serial number of a gun that I no longer control -- functional or not.

[Matt2496]

Off topic but why does every AK in that pic have a mag in it and nothing else does?

[Frenchy]

Originally Posted by Matt2496

Off topic but why does every AK in that pic have a mag in it and nothing else does?

Awful good question, I dont know the answer. When I first saw this "art" in canada, was back in the late 80 mid 90's when ever police did a buyback, they would hire a welder and weld the guns onto a stack, mind you not thick but large as a window front, and they would display their "works" so the people could see where the money they sepent went.

I had seen one of these in the Metro (subway) in Montreal and it always amazed me that so much money could be ruined so well. In the one I had seen, many of the parts where still very functional but the guns ruined by welds. IE: you could move the action, fire the gun, but not place a bullet in it because the gun has a rod welded in its barrel.

I remember the gun club I had gone to had actually asked to bid on one of these "sculptures" only to be told that they where not for sale. It always amazed me that people would sell their guns off at a few pennies to the dollar to a buy back like this.

Mind you many of the rifles seen in that picture are very restricted in Canada, this makes it even more amazing, because it means the people who sold their guns when all the restrictions went on, just did not want to go through the hassle of registering and keeping their guns. The govt counted on that i suppose to get many of these guns out of homes of honest citizens.