In a message dated 5/3/2002 10:04:11 PM Pacific Daylight Time, zippywebgenie@hotmail.com writes: > Jack, tell me you weren't just walking down the street with a mace slung > over your shoulder. <g> I bet one of the cops wanted it for himself. I > always wonder what percentage of the stuff they collect ends up where it > should. > > Jan G. > Federal law states "any firearm involved in a crime will be destroyed", if your firearms are STOLEN, they will not be returned. They were "involved in a crime", they were stolen. This has happened to me twice. One of my "destroyed" pistols, a Luger 9mm, was "used" in a robbery AFTER it was destroyed. If they had returned my stolen property, there would have ben no chance it could have been "destroyed" thaen used again, in seemingly perfect condition. Here they destroy them by running over them with a Bulldozer, and then smelting them, so what happened? Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG, (http://blacksheep.rootsweb.com) ~~ Coordinator, C h u r c h i l l Nevada U S G e n W e b Site Co-Coordinator, Inmontgo-L, Montgomery County, Indiana, U S G e n W e b Site manager of the following Rootsweb Lists: B l a c k s h e e p, L a n d e s, L a n d i s, P e f f l e y, S c i s m, E n d i c o t t, S h i p w r e c k, Inmontgo (Mont. Co. Indiana), NVChurch (Churchill Co. Nv.)

> One of my "destroyed" pistols, a Luger 9mm, was "used" in a robbery AFTER it > was destroyed. There was a lot of hype on this topic about a year ago. Police departments have been caught selling lots of confiscated guns. They claim they need the money!! These were both guns that were involved in crime and those turned it to be destroyed. There was a huge fuss and then we didn't hear anything more. EdrieAnne IBSSG