Nearly 5500 guns turned into rebar

[AlanM]

Nearly 5,500 Seized Guns Melted Into Rebar

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department | Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013

Sheriff Lee Baca announced the destruction Tuesday of 5,495 weapons confiscated from criminals in Los Angeles County and collected through the “Gifts for Guns” exchange program. Annually, Gerdau Steel Mill, located in Rancho Cucamonga, generously donates its furnace, equipment and personnel to convert these weapons into steel rebar. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Works also donates the trucks every year that transport the weapons to the Mill.

These weapons will be melted into steel reinforcing bar (rebar) and ultimately transformed into elements of construction for upgrades in freeways and bridges in Arizona, California and Nevada. “Our partnership with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department allows us the opportunity to make an impact in our community,” said Jim Crompton, Vice President and General Manager of Gerdau Steel Mill. “We are taking weapons that could destroy our community and repurposing them into steel that will literally help build our community.”

[OakRidgeStars]

To the L.A. County Sheriffs Office: The American firearms industry thanks you. Keep up the good work

http://www.gunshowmonster.com/gunshows/ ... California

[RWBlue01]

Note to self, protest any time California has budget issues and needs a load from the feds.

[Reverenddel]

I'm thinking how many collectable firearms are becoming the "rebar" of industry. And that makes me sad.

[Hocktl]

Well..... if they gotta make rebar out of it I propose they use the rebar to finish that damn wall they've been stalling on for years.

[HotD]

“We are taking weapons that could destroy our community and repurposing them into steel that will literally help build our community.”

Dear Sheriff,

Holding to that same argument, those weapons that you and your deputies carry, also hold the same potential.

Its not the object that can destroy a community, but rather who possesses them.....Moron.

[Stratojaxter]

“We are taking weapons that could destroy our community and repurposing them into steel that will literally help build our community.”

Dear Sheriff,

Holding to that same argument, those weapons that you and your deputies carry, also hold the same potential.

Its not the object that can destroy a community, but rather who possesses them.....Moron.

But, what can you make out of melted criminals?

[OakRidgeStars]

But, what can you make out of melted criminals?

Fertilizer

[VACoastie]

How about prison bars. They're overcrowding out there and could use a few more cells.

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[Reverenddel]

I think if we used the BONES OF CRIMINALS for the bars of jail that could constitute "cruel, and unusual" punishment Coastie.

I'm not OBJECTING mind you, but just pointing it out!

[VACoastie]

But, but, but...

AWWWW, allllllriiiight.

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[Reverenddel]

Hell, I'm apt to put heads on pikes in the Apocalypse!

But in civilized society? (shakes head) I'm to behave...

Until... chaos, anarchy, and barbarism rule... Then?

OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!

[j1mmyd]

How much rebar could they *buy* with the proceeds from selling some of those firearms?

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[Reverenddel]

VERY GOOD POINT JIMMY! CRAP! I hadn't even THOUGHT of that!

You have a couple parker hale, and a couple decent collectibles, you could PAY for a whole new JAIL!

...and pikes for their heads.