POTD: Guns on Death Row
This photo was taken in Serbian in 2012 during the destruction of 17,000 confiscated firearms. The most striking thing about the photo, at least to me, is what terrible quality the weapons are. Among the serviceable weapons there are piles of ancient rusted revolvers and cheap Chinese air rifles. Like most gun destruction programs, they tend to collect and destroy the lowest quality weapons, while the good stuff remains on the street (or buried underground by militants).
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I see some pretty nice pistols in the group. Hard to see what types of rifles are being destroyed, but that sure is a lot of walnut! The sad point is however, that every one of these weapons could have been used for hunting, target shooting, gun education, and defending life and liberty. Instead, they were destroyed in a fraudulent "feel good" demonstration that likely accomplished nothing.
While sights like this sicken me every time, and wreak of tyrrany and intent on genocide, I maybe am self serving in wanting to purchase perhaps about a quarter ton by weight of the remains of one of these autrocities. Not if they're just burned ash or melted clumps, but when they cut receivers with torches and bebnd barrels, and break stocks, leaving recognizable parts. I'd salvage some parts first of all, maybe try to build a functional firearm if there was something worthy, but mostly think it would be fun to piece together some non-servicable but cool looking prop wall hanger.