Feds Selling Gun Parts
Yet another reason to disband entire swaths of federal law enforcement:
The federal government has a long, proud history of arming people who commit violent crimes. Sometimes it’s intentional as it was during the Obama era Fast and Furious program when the ATF shipped weapons to the Mexican cartels. Sometimes it’s due to basic stupidity and negligence as it was when a BLM ranger left his gun in his car in San Francisco where it was stolen. It was later used to murder Kate Steinle.
Sure, these are awkward and make for some bad PR cycles, but as far as the Gun Control Industry and anti-gun politicians are concerned, these incidents aren’t without their own silver linings. They use high profile failures of the government and the actions of criminals that result to demagogue against civilian gun ownership in order to further ratchet up gun control restrictions and put more limits on the rights of law-abiding Americans.
That’s a wn-win!
The latest example comes to us from our friends at the FBI and DEA. It seems that parts from a number of their retired duty weapons — firearms that were supposed to have been destroyed — have later turned up in “ghost guns.” In other words, someone in the FedGov is making a little fishing boat money by appropriating gun parts and selling them, sometimes to criminals.
Federal guns that were supposed to be destroyed as part of assorted modernization efforts, were disassembled and tossed into barrels at the range, where any fed could go through it and cherry-pick extra barrels, springs, grips, and assorted parts.
Someone saw an opportunity and started dealing un-serialized parts on the street.
Only the best and brightest.
Labels: national politics
posted by SCC at 12:05 AM
16 Comments:
I hope they get shut down and defunded. Let’s have them enter into a Federal consent decree like Chicago. That would gum up the works.
If they're unserialized parts, how are they being identified? Not just production over runs or where the fedbois stiffed a supplier?
The is how legal firearm destruction can and does occur in Illinois:
1. FFL contracts to destroy firearms.
2. FFL cuts the serialized part that counts as the firearm, ie the frame or the receiver.
3. Sells what's left, even as parts kits, seen at gun shows. All legal.
Recycling at its finest.
glock barrels and slides are serialized. those pieces walked out and ended up on someones ploymer80 or some other kit gun. That firearm was recovered and when the s/n's were run it turned out they belonged to old duty pistols. The room where they were kept (according to the report I read) was accessible by anyone with access to the building, LEO, staff, contractors etc. so who knows pilfered these ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You can buy all the parts you want online. Brownells has a catalog.
Obama’s talking down to the Black Brothers about voting for KH. How many of these brothers have been invited to Martha Vineyard for a BBQ
This is an unprovable accusation. They were not lower receivers, or they would have had serial numbers and wouldn't have been on "ghost guns," and since they were unserialized they aren't trackable. They caught someone selling gun parts and made up the rest in their head.
with Fast and Furious the Fed's were purchasing the arms from gun dealer that were located in the Texas and the Southwest who were located close to the Southern Border. If you recall Sparklefarts started to blame these gun stores for the arms getting into Mexico. It was these gun stores that blew the whistle. They knew what the BATF was upto and they had everything they did when the purchased firearms for Fast and Furious documented with recordings , security camp footages, and they made the BATF sign documents clearing them these straw purchases. When the Sparklefarts tried to blame them for F&F blowing up in their faces their lawyers rolled out the evidence they had. The MSM went 24/7 into protection mode.
How many of these parts end up in weapons arming the actual southern border narco/human trafficking cartels just like Operation Fast and Furious? Consider the billions of dollars a year drug cartel businesses generate avoiding I.R.S. taxation keeping the flow of human trafficking real. Don't overlook the cartels essential role keeping fentanyl distribution markets fully supplied killing our youth with no identifying supply chain difficulties or interruptions. There are plenty of videos of armed coyotes patrols challenging the border patrol's primary mission on the U.S. side of the border. No federal law enforcement urgency as dictated by the powers in charge. Operation Fast and Furious, version 2.0
You hope who, gets shot?
Its not even that.
Many companies that 'destroy guns' do so 'for free' - the cities can't afford to pay them.
So the company strips the gun, destroys the receiver (the 'gun' part of the gun) and then re-sells the rest of the parts on the legitimate market. You can buy this stuff online, shipped to your door - gun parts aren't regulated.
This isn't something new or shady, its pretty standard practice.
Anonymous - Several parts of a gun are normally serialized - the receiver is mandatory but also the slide and often the barrel will also be serialized (those these parts aren't required to be and aren't regulated like the receiver).
Never trust a fed !
The FBI was founded by a black-mailing transvestite, just sayin’.
Wow You must be so jealous that you couldn’t become an FBI Special Agent. Just relax grab a donut and enjoy working on the watch. However if you stumble into a terrorist attack and are taken hostage the FBI HRT team will come in and flawlessly rescue you.
These guns should be sold back to law abiding citizens (i.e. taxpayers) when the feds are done with them, anyway. What's with all this "destroy 'em" stuff?
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