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How do I destroy a firearm? UPDATED w pic

Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:48 pm
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
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Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:48 pm
I have a pistol that has sat in some kind of powder for I don't know how many years. I found it after my father passed away. It needs so many things that it's going to be impossible to piece it back together. But the serviceable part of the pistol is the part with the actual serial number. So I'm totally lost here because I've never been put in this position of having to get rid of a firearm.

Sadly I still miss all the rest that fell out of my boat.
This post was edited on 10/8/19 at 3:11 pm
Posted by GoHoGsGo06
Member since Nov 2006
5739 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:49 pm to
Nice try, FBI.
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65046 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:51 pm to
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Nice try, FBI.


I would have gone with SJW but this works just fine also.
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65046 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:52 pm to
Actually I can provide photos of the weirdly disintegrated pistol later this evening if anyone is interested in seeing it. I guess he kept it stored in Borax or something.
Posted by Mr. Hangover
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2003
34512 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:53 pm to
Schmelt it
Posted by civiltiger07
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2011
14033 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:55 pm to
quote:

It needs so many things that it's going to be impossible to piece it back together.


sounds like it is already destroyed.
Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65046 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:55 pm to
quote:

Schmelt it


Smelting is an option but I don't have access to that. I could probably find someone with a torch. If I cut the pistol in half through where the trigger used to be I should be good right?
Posted by Rize
Spring Texas
Member since Sep 2011
15821 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:56 pm to
Posted by Ol boy
Member since Oct 2018
2937 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 1:59 pm to
#1 4in grinder cut off wheel
#2 heat up in a fire pit on a bed of coals and hit a few times with a 5 pound maul.
#3 give it to a boy between 8-13 and tell him there’s no way in hell he can make it unrecognizable, sit back and drink a beer and let him do his thing.
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38744 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:03 pm to
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How do I destroy a firearm?


Put it in borax or some other mysterious powder for 30 years.
Posted by Mr. Hangover
New Orleans
Member since Sep 2003
34512 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:04 pm to
quote:

#3 give it to a boy between 8-13 and tell him there’s no way in hell he can make it unrecognizable, sit back and drink a beer and let him do his thing.





I was about to say, I have a 5 year old and his group of friends that can pretty much destroy ANYTHING if it has any type of value
Posted by mack the knife
EBR
Member since Oct 2012
4186 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:14 pm to
quote:

give it to a boy between 8-13 and tell him there’s no way in hell he can make it unrecognizable, sit back and drink a beer and let him do his thing.


Amen to this! mack jr #3 and his group of hellion buddies can wreck scrap iron
Posted by cdaniel76
Covington, LA
Member since Feb 2008
19699 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:16 pm to
quote:

Actually I can provide photos of the weirdly disintegrated pistol later this evening if anyone is interested in seeing it. I guess he kept it stored in Borax or something.


I'm always curious to see stuff like this when I hear about it, so please, do post pics.

Posted by Broke
AKA Buttercup
Member since Sep 2006
65046 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:31 pm to
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I'm always curious to see stuff like this when I hear about it, so please, do post pics.


Roger that. It's weird how it was eaten away. Anything not stainless is pretty much gone but the gun is so old you can't find parts. Anywhere. I think it is an old Sears pistol. I would love to figure out a way to find parts for it.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:34 pm to
Save it till the police have another gun buyback event and make $200.
Posted by Chad504boy
4 posts
Member since Feb 2005
166375 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:50 pm to
have you thought about selling it to Alx? He'd put so many safety features on it that the thing would be useless.
Posted by weagle99
Member since Nov 2011
35893 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 2:57 pm to
quote:

How do I destroy a firearm?


Call Benchmade Knives, they can help you


Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
43590 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 3:13 pm to
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Save it till the police have another gun buyback event and make $200.


thats what i was going to suggest screw them
Posted by dfintlyHmmrd
Jigga City
Member since Dec 2016
1408 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 3:21 pm to
The legal way is 3 cuts through the receiver with a torch, a grinder or saw or anything else is not legal.
Posted by tigerbait1970
H-Town
Member since Oct 2007
574 posts
Posted on 10/7/19 at 3:30 pm to
Call the Dick's Sporting Goods CEO

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