Records on Destruction of Weapons

MsRuger45 · December 18, 2010, 01:22 AM

When weapons are ordered to be destroyed, is there some record of it? I am in California. Thanks.

carguychris · December 18, 2010, 08:32 AM

What weapons, owned by who? Military? Law enforcement? Out-of-date evidence locker cleanup?

Please post more information.

AirForceShooter · December 18, 2010, 08:50 AM

All weapons that are destroyed by any authority are inventoried.

Why do you ask?

AFS

**Spats McGee** · December 18, 2010, 09:56 AM

Are you looking for some centralized database of destroyed weapons?

atlctyslkr · December 18, 2010, 10:04 AM

Supposedly but It seems like there are always cases where large police departments sent guns to be melted and they ended up back on the street. I think this is fairly common in LA.

woodguru · December 18, 2010, 01:12 PM

My wife's dad passed away a few months ago, he was an officer in the Navy and had brought some of his guns home. He was in the invasion of Normandy as the captain of a Landing Transport Ship. One was a fully automatic carbine (M1?) that I wanted but he seemed worried about the legality and giving me something that could land me in serious trouble. We think he turned it in to the LA police department as we found information in his papers on an amnesty period that you could turn in illegal guns.

I'd like to know if it was turned in but we have no information short of a two year period between when I knew he had it and it being gone now.

December 18, 2010, 01:22 AM	#1
MsRuger45 Junior Member Join Date: December 18, 2010 Posts: 1	Records on Destruction of Weapons When weapons are ordered to be destroyed, is there some record of it? I am in California. Thanks.

December 18, 2010, 08:32 AM	#2
carguychris Senior Member Join Date: October 20, 2007 Location: Richardson, TX Posts: 7,523	What weapons, owned by who? Military? Law enforcement? Out-of-date evidence locker cleanup? Please post more information. __________________ "Smokey, this is not 'Nam. This is bowling. There are rules... MARK IT ZERO!!" - Walter Sobchak

December 18, 2010, 01:12 PM	#6
woodguru Senior Member Join Date: September 14, 2010 Location: Placerville, Ca Posts: 589	My wife's dad passed away a few months ago, he was an officer in the Navy and had brought some of his guns home. He was in the invasion of Normandy as the captain of a Landing Transport Ship. One was a fully automatic carbine (M1?) that I wanted but he seemed worried about the legality and giving me something that could land me in serious trouble. We think he turned it in to the LA police department as we found information in his papers on an amnesty period that you could turn in illegal guns. I'd like to know if it was turned in but we have no information short of a two year period between when I knew he had it and it being gone now. __________________ Fiction is harder to write than the truth, fiction has to make sense, the truth can be unbelievable.

December 18, 2010, 08:50 AM	#3
AirForceShooter Senior Member Join Date: December 21, 2005 Location: Sarasota (sort of) Florida Posts: 1,296	All weapons that are destroyed by any authority are inventoried. Why do you ask? AFS

December 18, 2010, 09:56 AM	#4
Spats McGee Staff Join Date: July 28, 2010 Location: Arkansas Posts: 8,821	Are you looking for some centralized database of destroyed weapons?

December 18, 2010, 10:04 AM	#5
atlctyslkr Senior Member Join Date: March 6, 2006 Location: Atlanta, GA Posts: 613	Supposedly but It seems like there are always cases where large police departments sent guns to be melted and they ended up back on the street. I think this is fairly common in LA.