idk how yall think criminals get guns but the ones where im at have spotless .50 bmgs and old browning anti air rifles.... you cant go to academy and get one... i already tried... lol so who do gun laws protect? seriously when the thugs have nicer shit than the gun shows you know gun laws are meaningless...
+Ralph Niger I'm not going to say anything but me personally I have a browning 50cal in a friends garage and abunch of full auto but let's just say I'm in Texas and country if law comes to our door will see from miles away and 50cal is just a beast will make a armored vehicle look like a bitch but I'm not a drug dealer or a criminal
In the mid seventies my home was broken in to and my guns were stolen. A few weeks later the police asked me to come view their evidence room to see if my guns were there. They were not, but I observed something profound. There was not even ONE quality firearm in that locker. Not even one. I later told a cop friend about the experience and he told me something that I had already suspected. All good guns go home with the cops. He admitted that that was standard procedure.
I can't speak for every agency, but I know that we don't do that. Why would I want to risk a case against some dirt bag, just for a free gun? People will say, wait until after the case is over......Ever heard of appeal? It's just not worth it. Not to mention the paperwork that is involved these days. With computers, they can tell you exactly where certain items are stored in evidence, and if a gun is missing, its going to be someone's ass.
That sort of thing depends on the agency and the county or state involved. It does happen, but not every place. DO NOT have any firearms stolen in the Los Angeles basin area. Probably not in PDSR California.
@floyd green i hope you weren't suprised to hear that. We are supposed to bowdown in hail to the thin blue line but then stuff like this comes to surface and what are we supposed to think then...to nice for a throw down gun? To much red tape...right.
Back when I was in college, I took a course in Forensics. The fellow who ran the course worked for the Washington State Patrol. One time, we were taken to the evidence room where guns like this are kept. He showed us the WSP's pride-and-joy 'evidence gun'''...a WWII Japanese Nambu light machine gun! They had it mounted on the wall, and apparently several museums had tried to purchase it from them.
We have all heard the story of the old lady who's husband had passed away. She took her husbands firearms to the police station. Unfortunately not all cop shops re sell firearms such as New York City, where they destroy them. Well, this ladies husband was a veteran and low and behold, she turned in a STG-44! Needless to say, the police decided not to destroy that rifle. Sorry, not on subject but it was a nice story.
***** So you're ruling out the most typical reason for why vets have war relics? Mainly, claiming objects from your fallen foe. Now doesn't that seem like an logical reason?
I'll tell you how my Glock 36 ended up in the Memphis Police Department evidence room. I was in a motorcycle wreck and they illegally confiscated it despite the fact that I hold a handgun carry permit. You wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get it back. In fact, I'm confident that many people simply abandon their firearms with no hope of ever retrieving them in such a situation. Later, the person who was in charge of the evidence room was convicted of all manner of crimes, including stealing and re-selling cocaine and other drugs that had been confiscated and placed there for safekeeping, as well as stealing wads and wads of cash. So much cash was recovered from his house that it was ruined from mold growing on it.
I was in Memphis for 17 years. I just moved away, last April, to Decaturville. There are some thing that I miss about Memphis. Corrupt police and politicians are not on the list!
I had a gun that ended up in an evidence locker. It was stolen from my home, and later recovered by the local police investigators. Rossi Ranch Hand .45 Colt. The investigator got a kick out of it because he'd never seen one around here before. The investigator mentioned that the criminal must have been a world class idiot, because a gun like that was too unique to sell or even move easily in our area without drawing attention.
I have that exact gun lots of fun ask Steve McQueen. 45 long colt is actually available unlike most other rounds so it’s still something that I can afford to shoot.
We once recovered an OLD Smith and Wesson 38 that had been used by an LAPD officer to participate in the Olympics in the 30's. We had another guy cut down a Remington 1100, thereby disabling its semi-auto capability. He robbed a convenience store with it and tried to shoot the officer that responded, but forgot to take the safety off. My favorite though was the 17 year old that tried to rob a convenience store and get rid of the clerk as a witness. The clerk gave him the money and the kid fired directly at the clerk, who was standing behind a display of cigarettes. The kid was using a 22 short and the round only made it through about 7 packs iirc, causing the clerk to think he was using blanks. The clerk chased the kid down the street with the kid firing back at him, all the while with the clerk thinking the gun wasn't real. Luckily the kid missed.
My brother worked for the NYPD back in the 90s, and he told one time he was in the property room of his precinct looking at all the confiscated or turned in firearms and he found a German MP-40 that belonged to a vet, who had recently died. It was in really good condition too.
My mate who's a cop once found a sawn off and cut down H&H double rifle in .577 nitro express he said the fireball out of the end of the barrel when they took ballistic impressions was about 4 feet long and kicked hard enough to throw it out of their hands
Though that should have never been done in the first place, I would slap a SBR stamp on that thing and take it out to the range every week so fast it would make your head spin.
the craziest thing we had in the evidence locker where I work is an MP-40. It wasn't used in a crime - someone's granddad died and they found it in his attic. He brought it home from WW2 as a souvenir. It was still loaded. They surrendered it to us, and we finally managed to find a military museum that would take it.
@@BoredAmerican because it's in Canada where it's virtually impossible to privately own a full-auto. The only way for the family to legally own that one would be to have a smith deactivate it, and they didn't want to bother. We did offer them that option.
I had purchased two firearms in 1991 a 20 gauge shotgun and a .380 with ammo at a pawn shop. Police arrived at the pawn shop due thugs tagging the pawnshop. I exited the pawnshop suddenly I had four police officers pointing their guns at me to lower my paper bag of firearms. I showed them I purchased the firearms with receipts and they still arrested me for unlawful carry of a firearm. 😳 Anyways 1 year later I received a phone call the local police department stating to pick up my firearms if not they would be distroyed. So of course I pick them up. However to this day I still have that charge on my record which is highly upsetting.
WTF is this crap. In a state of justice, you'd get no record for something you didn't do - and certainly you wouldn't need to hire a lawyer to clear up anything caused by unfounded suspicion of some random police officer. If you didn't get charged and convicted, there shouldn't be anything in your record as a result.
Yes, I was talking about a justice state. Not a police state, or state of lawyers. You guys need to start talking to politicians for adding some sense in your system.
so basically, cheap guns tend to be used in crimes, because they are cheap and the people who buy them dont have the money to aquire better arms. The joke being that if a guy had cash to throw down on an HK he probably isnt in the economic situation that would necessitate a life of crime
+rob clay According to studies by the NIJ and FBI, most serious criminals use stolen weapons that medium or upper medium quality. Mainly because the gang steals enough good guns that they all have plenty of good choices.
Part of me feels that if there were better restrictions on handguns themselves, murder would go down in some way, 90% of firearm homicides are caused by handguns. It's funny too, because the media isn't targeting the handguns, they're going for the rifles... The weapons that cause less than 1% of murders in the US... What seems more logical would be restricting handguns, and allowing rifles of any type... Allow open carry for PDW's and SBR's, or even long guns. The Second Amendment is put in place to deter tyranny and threats foreign and domestic, and battle rifles seem like the most logical weapon for anything like that. Not really my opinion or theory, just kind of a speculation, I'm just saying IF there were some kind of gun control, big scary rifles aren't the problem.
+N75911 Brother, restrictions on handguns arent going to solve the problem. You have to remember that by definition, Criminals dont obey the law, so if someone is willing to use a gun to murder someone, they wont care about "restrictions" the government has. Not to mention restricting the law abiding citizens access to guns has no effect on whether criminals have access to guns. They dont shop at the same gun stores as the rest of us.
Many years ago, a friend of mine acquired a Colt revolver, chambered for .38 special, from the Camden, NJ PD. They had an auction when they were clearing out the evidence room. This was the most accurate revolver I had ever shot. Even at 25 yards, all the shots were in the "X" ring.The trigger was "butter slick". Magnificent shooter!
Shot two times by an active shooter and rogue off duty cop when I was 19 years old protecting my mother from his attack after she ended their relationship. I will NEVER blame the gun...but the man behind the gun, that's the issue. I'm glad you made this point.
+PvMcris I remember buying crates of SKS's for about a grand along with ammo for right around 1-3 cents a round. Ah, the good old days. Wish I kept ahold of some unopened crates.
Hmm, I thought a full automatic AR or AK would be in there. Or one of those, 30 rounds military high capacity detachable clip magazine rifle. You know, according to politicians. [EDIT]: I've seen too many replies from who are too dumb to get my obvious sarcasm so now I want to make it very clear that this statement above is a sarcasm. Have a nice day.
The department I worked for had a fully legit, full auto MP40. It had been there since the early 90s. According to the records and the old timers it was smuggled back by a vet, whose son (a crackhead) later found it and used it in a robbery. Thankfully it was not destroyed and is still "archived" at the station according to folks I know that still are there
Buddy in our neighbourhood passed away, and he left my stepdad his firearms. There was a 20mm lahti in there with a crate of ammo. That was the highlight of my life that weapon.
My dad had a friend who worked in the Detroit Police Department when he once did a drug raid in 2007 they recovered 50 kilos of Crack cocaine, 55.2 million in cash, 4 Draco style AK47 pistols, 9 1911 .45s, 16 Tec 9s, a military issue M16 that was issued to a soldier in the Vietnam War (The soldier was already long dead it was stolen), over 20 Glocks of various models, and a MAC 10 he said it was the scariest bust of his life
Former Correctional Officer here. One night, I was part of a cell raid and, among the usual contraband (Marijuana, cell phones, etc.), one guy found a zip gun hidden in a hole in the wall. The guy had taken a piece of pipe and attached it to a self carved block of wood. The striker was a shaved nail that could be held under tension with a rubber band. He had a small sandwich bag with a few rounds of .22lr. Gave us a damn good scare.
Here in Mexico a lot of interesting stuff is on evidence locker, things like desert eagles, S&W 500, 1911, Lugers from the WW2, guns covered with gold, tactical AR15 or really expensive guns.
WCGwkf The army destroy them, except the ones that are covered with gold they put them in a museum like trophies. The guns that the police have usually come back to the streets because police is full of corruption.
@Buck - it has little do with with broke ass criminals, In America they use those guns once and then there gone no point in using a desert eagle if your just gonna chuck it in a river right afterwards in Mexico however there thumbing there noses at the cops wether there paid off or not, and there telling the public we are the predators your the sheep.
A cop told me when I was a kid - well under 21, about a kid years ago in Quincy Ma. was caught robbing a convenience store with a civilian Luger Navy that had been stolen from a collector . Even at that age I knew this kid was a dummy. At the time it was worth well over $2000 in any shop in America
Lord Draconia It's a pretty good gun to tell you the truth. Accurate as f*ck. I'm consistently shooting the circle within the dome of clay targets out, leaving the dome intact without the inner circle. Like a clay donut. Mmmm...donuts.
My friend's youngest brother, a minor, sawed the barrels off their Parker Trojan Shotgun ,which was their grandad's, after seeing the film " The Godfather".. He almost killed his youngest brother..
Aside from the cheep guns is the ammo, most every gun I ever confiscated had a mix-match of ammo. A 6 shot revolver would invariably have 5 rounds in it and they were all different. People who carried these were generally idiots. The guy with the Browning Highpower and spare magazines with hydro shock ammo was scary, he had a good idea of what he was doing.
My SWAT buddy showed me a Chopped Remington 1100 with a 14.5" barrel and was made Full Auto. He said the Man was a local illegal gunsmith who made illegal M16s from Semi auto AR's and such but that man got a life sentence. The funny thing is that the SWAT uses his SBS Full Auto 1100 because he did a good job on it.
@@johnwurfel2862 agreed. I'm in new york state and I had around 3k dollars worth of "non compliant guns" confiscated. It sickens me that they are completely permitted by the constitution and legal in 99% of states except mine and now they're gone forever probably being used by officers. 😢
I live in a small town, and to be honest, most cops here usually pick over the evidence room stuff before it's auctioned off. When I was a kid, someone called the cops because I was shooting my brand new Crossman .177 that I got for Christmas out in our yard. The cops "confiscated" it. No reason given. The very next day, my buddy and neighbor Greg, (whose Dad was a cop) had himself a brand new Crossman .177 just like mine. Nobody called the cops while he was shooting it though.
Our police department has a fully automatic, .45, M3 grease gun that was found during a traffic stop sometime in the late 1940's. It is still functional. They have it in a display case, it gets a lot of looks. They also have a fully automatic M14 that was found during a search of a house that is now used by the SWAT team.
My sister was a LEO here in Indiana, she wound up nailing this guy for aggravated assault and domestic battery. When she pulled him over and arrested him, the guy had a MINIGUN in his trunk. Later turned out that the guy had attempted to convert it for firing PAINTBALLS . . . totally weird
There are also people manufacturing guns in their garages in places where guns are hard to get. The most useful gun in WW2 that replaced the Tommy gun was literally made of plumber parts. Both the American grease gun and the British sten are made this way.
My uncle Ralph is a cop and he found a home-made Molotov/grenade launcher. It looked like a tube with metal bases to protect the bottle and you'd load it like an old black powder gun. pretty weird.
my grandfather is retired Henderson NV PD. he's my best friend! anyways, we are avid gun enthusiest, he has shown me photographs of seized weapons out here in Vegas and Vegas sub districts. so far I'm most impressed with the AA-12 and the Barrett BMG .50 cal.
I've owned all 5 of the firearms mentioned and still come across them quite often (extremely cheap). This video was very accurate, as are most of your videos. Keep up the good work.
if you judge how good a firearm is by how it is used, the Sigma is not a good firearm, but if you judge a firearm by how many times it is used, well, that's an entirely different story, now isn't it?
8:20 this gun is a classic here in Brazil, the I.N.A Tigre (Tiger). Often used by criminals over here aswell, but not as much as Taurus and Rossi revolvers.
I went into the armory at the station once. It had racks of Thompson full auto carbines. The Sergeant that worked there wouldn’t even let me pick one up. He saw it was driving me nuts but He never let me wander the armory.
I went to a police auction in missouri and they were selling sawed off shotguns. some of them were cut off to only 10 inch barrels and chopped of stocks. they didn't seem to care at all they were illegal to own. then you had to have the gun sent to the local FFL at the pawnshop to pick up the gun and he was charging $75 to call your gun in and fill out the paperwork. they had a ton of broken little darringer pistols that were froze up or missing parts. they were selling for $20-30$ then you had to turn around and spend $75'to pick it up. they neglected to tell anyone about the $75 transfer fee so they could make more money off of the guns.
Here in California, if your gun goes to an evidence locker, regardless of why it got there or if you owned it legally. It's gone forever. Period. The judges and the police departments work together to keep them from being returned.
That's like a $5-6000 barrel too. The most expensive part of an already obscenely expensive firearm. Sawing off literally thousands of dollars of value on top of having the whole thing eventually wind up in a police evidence locker. o_o
The most interesting piece I ever saw was at the Hill County (Tx) jail. There, I saw an M3 grease gun that some criminal degenerate had destroyed. According to the sheriff, the criminal knew the cops were coming for him, so he took an oxy/accy torch, and melted the bolt-face on this weapon. Such a waste :(
I worked in firearms wholesale for many years, so I knew lots of licensed dealers, some of whom made bids on guns which police depts had originally seized from criminals. Lots of stuff like Eric showed the viewers, as well as the occasional jewel like a Colt Python, Sig Sauer, or once a WWII Gewehr 43. A bit of caution to the dealer though...........make sure if you win a bid on a certain lot of these firearms, that you first check to make sure they are not loaded. Several dealers I know have received guns from various dept's evidence rooms which were fully loaded, including rounds in the chamber. One dealer examining the bore on a pump shotgun, saw it was blocked with something....the something turned out to be a fairly sizable bag of cocaine (which he turned back in).
5:10 I'd bet the population of standard .22 rifles is probably the biggest reason so many of them end up in evidence. Almost every gun owner in the world has at least one simple .22 rifle, and it was probably their first gun.
Firearms Instructor for Nassau County, NY PD here. Our Property Bureau had (and turned over to FTU for educational purposes)A German MG08 water cooled crew served machine gun.
My neighbor is a police officer, he found and confiscated a semiauto m240b with 5 loaded 100 link belts the guy didn't have license, Car insurance and was a felon
It was made in the Philippines of all places. They even had a Glock18, also from PI.The Mexicans have some bad shit. Not just those 32 auto and a pig sticker.
Heard from a guy that was a firearms forensics investigator and he said by far the Jimenez/Jennings/Raven "ring of fire" guns were the overwhelming majority of guns they ran into for crime investigations.
As a young black man, I was easily conned into the Democratic / "liberal" belief system by social pressure and this feeling of "racial duty" that I had to be a Democrat, as a proud "brutha", and fight against the rich, white Republicans who were out to get us... Now, I am a _Libertarian_ (not to be confused with "American liberalism", which is quite a misnomer, IMO) ... as I got older and wiser, I realized the Democrats are just as big of idiots as the Republicans ... and they're arguably just two rich-boy cliques of the same regime with the same agendas and self-serving motives. I once worshipped Obama as my "negro savior" and thought he was gonna really change things for us black folk ... then I realized that only _black people_ can change things for black people! Seems obvious, but they pump this shit into our heads as black children from pre-school to the end of high school (and often in college too). Also, there are a lot of wealthy, respectable black people _already out there_ because they did something with their lives. I definitely see/know that law enforcement, the prison industrial complex, War on Drugs, etc is all totally racist, but those are things Democrats and Republicans BOTH created and continue to support. And I also realized that the "gun control" movement/lobby is just a tool to increase government's size and power, speed up the process of Constitutional deterioration/destruction and further enslave the so-called citizens (now "subjects" seems more accurate) and disarm/weaken the people and their ability to resist and/or rebel against authoritarian, totalitarian autocratic regimes ...
As always guys, great video. You are unselfish in giving out information but also frank and straightforward. I'm a 61 year old fan of yours. Before my US visa expires this 2020 I pray to God that the opportunity comes for me to visit you. I'll be taking off from New Zealand but i'm a Filipino citizen and I come from a long family line of gun enthusiasts. God bless us all.
I've had a couple of my guns go through the police evidence locker by virtue of having been stolen and recovered. It was easier to get them back from the thief than the cops.
@@trashpanda2875 No, i dont leave my gun in my car. If someone steals it, it links me to any crime committed with it. If some punk ass teenager breaks into my car looking for smokes, its on my conscious if he hurts himself or someone's daughter with it. If my kids find it while looking for something they left behind in the car, its on me if something happens. I keep my gun secure wherever i take it because its a big responsibility to own something like that. If your youtube comment starts with "ive had a couple of my guns stolen" theres something you are doing wrong that you need to address
I remember in the early 60s visiting my hometown sporting goods store when it had racks overloaded with British Enfield rifles for under $20.00. So cheap I didn't appreciate their value.
Back in 1996-97 did a tour of the FBI building we got the chance to look into the weapons locker (through glass) and on the rack was an antique Black powder side by side with a beautiful polished oak stock and a wooden trigger guard. Hopeful it was able to eventual come on the market.or given to a museum, it saddens me to think that such a great example of craftsmanship was possibly locked away or destroyed.
Marc JustMarc when i turn 18 ima get a Handgun and keep it too protect myself and occasionally take it too the Shooting Range,But unfortunately u need a License
my cousin was a cop in Albuquerque but later on became a detective during a raid someone had brought in a sawed of enfield rifle, 2 hand grenades an a bunch of pipeguns able to shoot .22 rifle an some .410 & .12 an 20 gauge ammo
Eric, you used the phrase "high cap mag" while discussing the SKS. you and I both know they are standard issue equipment. Don't concede our ground to the gun grabbers
^^ Ten round fixed magazine that takes stripper clips at that. There was one rare variant that was manufactured to accept standard AK 47 rounds though.
Fun Story, In Sweden they sometimes have weapon amnestys, Where you can turn in unlicensed weapons to the police without questions, One year one guy turned in a Carl Gustaf M48, and 2 years( or so ago) somone turned in a 155MM Artillery projectile, that was live..
The Taurus PT92 is a crazy popular one around here. Everyone has either a pt92 or a Taurus 24/7. They are cheap and reliable. They shoot true and most people here keep one in their truck.
@@4thSurvivor1990 I've put alot of rounds through a PT92 both Gen 1 and gen 2's. Never had a single issue with it, it didn't matter if it was 90 degrees and 100% humidity or if it's over 40 below it just worked. And was always accurate, I also personally liked the trigger feel.
Why does he keep mentioning the "black market"? There is nothing wrong with the black market. Buying a gun from your neighbor or friend or brother etc is considered the black market. Dont fall into the trap of using government words.
its not black market to sell a legally obtained gun to a person who can legally own a gun. black market refers to illegally obtained guns being sold to anyone
The term "black market" has been tossed around so much these days. It's just hilarious. To give you an idea of how outrageous this is, New York City recently banned "underground" dinner parties because they are technically operating as restaurants on the "black market".
Source on this New York restaurant claim? I'm having a seriously hard time believing anything you've said. If I were to sell a gun to my friend who has no criminal background (I don't either) that is not considered "black market," as said by previous posters. You just seemed to be filled with disinformation.
Most exotic I have seen end up in evidence was an artillery model P-08 luger circa 1917. I was the person that a teenager used the pistol to rob a convenience store. He was eventually caught and the pistol was recovered. Irony was he got less than 30 dollars during the robbery. That particular pistol is worth 2500-4000 to a collector.
My dads best friend is a cop and he'll often tell this story about how his station raided a house for drugs and found a SAW assault rifle welded to a homemade turret.
A SAW is a suppressive fire weapon and an assault rifle has the purpose of being an assaulted weapon so the are two totally different things not trolling just letting you know but anyways that's a crazy story it's kinda like the scene from breaking bad...
I don’t watch your vids as much as I should these days, but you guys are some of the most down to earth gun channel guys on UA-cam. Y’all make a good team too. Love what you do
I know I'm late, I love watching these old videos. I have a sd9ve and it is amazing almost 3000 rounds never a jam, the trigger isn't great but it is a very reliable gun.
I bought a brand new SKS paratrooper in the early 90's for $120..... I loved it. Unfortunately, it was stolen along with all of my other firearms. I filed a police report and of course never saw them again. I just hope my guns never were involved in anything stupid.
It's aaaiiight. Keep reedin.... thayz sum bone dead stoopid dumpies jist ahayd. The truly sick part is these are the smoretest leeders of theyrrr cummunicapaties. Mr. Marlin below is the Inglish teecher.
LEO in SC here. The craziest thing I've ever seen is a real, true homemade garage special automatic 9mm SMG. It kind of looked like a schizophrenic ape on meth tried to make an MP40. It had no rifling and an absolutely insane cyclic rate. Pulling the trigger sounded like someone ripping the most violent fart ever. Used Sterling mags. For a while we were hearing some shithead on shot spotter with a converted .22 that fired at about the same rate. The "buzzsaw guy" had a short career when we found him dead. Looking at his 22 rifle it was clear he deleted the disconnector.
I found a Romanian SAR 1 that came out of a cpd lockup it was seized because the guy tried to murder a sheriff's deputy I looked at it and noticed something was off upon further inspection I found it was drilled for the third pin and had the fa trigger group in it lol I handed it back to the sales associate and told him I don't want to see it anymore....guy got alot more charges tacked on
garand80 So you could have purchased it and they had no idea it was full auto? I think I would have purchased it, changed the trigger group and kept the old trigger assembly in a safe place in case the world ever comes to a situation where that would be essential. I knew a Marine that shipped a fully auto AK back from the sand box. I don’t know for sure because I haven’t had contact with him in 20+ years but I bet it is hidden nicely in case it it ever needed.
my dads friend is a cop and he showed us a 10/22 that was in the evidence locker that was converted FA, the job was clean almost looked like a pro did it
I remember back in high school - even before the internet - you could buy manuals on how to FA the 10/22 and Mini-14 with common hand tools. This company called Palladin Press published them, as well as those Poor Man's James Bond and Anarchist Cookbook series of books. It's amazing I'm still alive, now that I think of it.
I worked at a gun shop in Aurora CO. We were the importer for Ranato Gammba shotguns. They run from $3,000 to $250,000. We had one from Atlanta GA. I think com in for rebuild. It was stolen and who ever took it cut the stock off and chopped the barrel down to 5 inches. It was a side lock so it was over $20,000 to start. We sent it back to Italy to be rebarreled and restocked. The good thing was we still had the measurements for the stock so we could refit it to the owners body. When it came in we all wanted to throw up. The engraving was still not bad but the serial number was filed off. The only way they got it was with acid to bring it back out enough to track it. I was the one that test fired all the firearms that came from our gunsmith shop that wasn't on location it was a mile away from the shop. When the gunsmiths did a wonderful job restoring it. The gunsmith in Italy that engraved it sent a letter with it saying he had to remove the engraving and try to re engrave it but it was a total loss so they refit the side locks in a new receiver. He wasn't going to let a piece of artwork go out the door with shotty artwork. We called the owner and asked him what he wanted engraved on it. He had different types of birds that he used it for and we wanted the date it was created and the date that it was rebuilt on the trigger guard. The engraver did such a great job on it that it was published in a book in Italy with the story. I wish I could remember the books name. It was in 2001 and my memory isn't that good any more. When it came back I had the luxury of shooting it for the customer who flew back to Denver for the finnal fitting and we had it the same as it was when he first had it fitted. He was so happy to have his side by side back he bought us all dinner at a really nice restaurant that night. Of coarse he took us all to the sporting clays range to have a good day too. I was one of the lucky 5 that went. We had about 25 employee's. That was the best time I have ever had on the coarse. I never liked the suicide firearms that came in. It was usually the family that would bring them in. We have a mother and father bring in a S&W highway patrolman in that was covered in blood and grey matter and I took it out of the envelope and didn't realize that it was blood untill I saw the rings where the rest of the ammunition was at and the blood and pieces were. I went into the workshop to clean my hands and when I came out the people were leaving with the gun. One of the employees sad they didn't want it. It wasn't his job to do that so I brought them back in and told them that it was worth some good money. The mother said I don't want it I will take whatever you will give me for it. They went on a different shop and they were only going to give them $75.00 for it. I offered them $250 for it because it was going to have to be completely disassembled and cleaned. They agreed to sell it to us and the owner fired the guy that said they didn't want it. I ended up buying it for the $250.00 because I did the cleaning and the owner was happy with me. The lady came back with a big box full of firearms because she couldn't look at them. She came back and wanted to speak to me and the owner let me buy all the firearms but we couldn't buy the ammunition so she gave it to us ie me. It was full of older ammunition and I pulled them and reloaded them. I have many more stories but it would get more boring. Happy shooting.
neat video! back in the 80's, I worked for a gunshop and traveled all over SC, and parts of NC & even GA, buying from police departments. have several stories of items bought, as follows: 1 - Smith Model 41 with the 7 3/8" barrel and brake from Horry County SC. serial number range put it very early in the series. Drug dealer like it 'cause it looked like an 'assassin gun'. He was carrying what at that time was worth $600-800 gun, arrested with about $20 worth of crack 2 - in the bottom of the box of semi auto junk pistols from a department in GA was an Iver Johnson 30 carbine pistol version of the M-1 carbine. this had the neat cutts-like compensator on it. I was digging thru a box we bought from them based on weight, found it while still there. We (myself and some of the cops) took it to the local range their police department used...and when I pulled the trigger we found out it was rigged to be full auto! Cops were standing there so we all took a turn shooting 3-5 rounds, then clearing the jam, and then I handed it back to the department 3- In the locker of my hometown department in SC was a gun no-one could figure out, a bolt-gun. Old, no scope mount, stripper clip slot. Also had receiver sights & a sporter stock. Criminal had no ammo so was going into stores and waving it at people. I bought that one. It was a Savage Mod 20 in 250-3000 caliber, and in really good shape, considering how our rocket-surgeon used it. Only a few thousand made! 4-Guy in my hometown arrested for domestic, was waving a "308 caliber home-made pump rifle" He had taken a Swiss 1911 rifle, and after cutting the barrel down with a hacksaw and filing it, he cut the stock down, very near the magazine. In front of that, he had a bar running from the front of the stock out to the new muzzle, and had braised a bracket to it. The bar had a tube that mostly surrounded it, with another thicker tube attached to that for the fore end. Add to this a crudely braised bar to the straight pull bolt handle, and cut off the ring at the back of the bolt (AKA: the SAFETY). He had also braised a steel bar to the rear sight housing for a makeshift scope mount. Oh..HE WAS SHOOTING 308 FACTORY AMMO IN IT! The cops said they had actually SHOT it and the cases bulged and split, but the thing worked. The guy claimed to have shot several large deer with it, and the cops noted he had mounts on the wall.... 5-Last one. My dad wanted a single shot shotgun to keep around for security, as he was getting feeble (Korean War Vet). At our local department, in a load of guns, there was one in PERFECT condition, an H&R in 20 gauge, not cut/as new, complete with the box! I took it and after logging it into the store, I took it home to dad. He noticed someone had used a marker-pen & marked the buttstock "SUICIDE" & the date. I said "oops, I missed that." Dad hit the button...and a fired shell popped out! A check of newspaper records on the butt stock's date revealed dad & I had known the guy! (small town) Dad kept it as-is, but never shot it, as per him, "it definitely worked once." Those are the "Top 5" I can name off the top of my head. i did this for about 4 years, but then Al Gore Invented the internet (ahem), and Gunbroker ended our little side business we had of used guns at crazy-low prices IF Y'ALL WANT A STORY OR TWO MORE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!!
@@jigginwithg5595 Had a lady come into the store and spin a long tale about needing a gun for home defense She bought a H&R 32 revolver (we sold them used for $71 with a box of ammo) had to show her how to load it, She left. Turns out she was supposed to be at work, but instead went home to catch her BF with his his girlfirend. She burst into the bedroom screaming and emptied the gun...without hitting either of them. The other girl began fighting with her while the BF dove out the window. this was a bad idea, because they were on the second floor! He did more damage from the fall than the gun would have, go figure
I'am a retired police firearms instructor from S. C. I also worked at a gun shop.. The gun that ended up in our evidence locker as well as other departments evidence lockers in my area was the Hi-Point Model C. Side note: When I worked at the gun shop a group of homies(Black guys) would come in and ask to see a "Glock" so I would show them a Glock. Of course they would turn it sideways in the traditional Homie hold position.. Then they would say,Yes That's the Jones .Then they would look at the price,And their eyes would get big,Then they would say No,no do you have a "Heavy Glock", At this point I had no idea what a Heavy Glock was ..So one would scan the case,See the Hi-Point Model C,($179.00) And there that one .... Then my boss bought some Chi-Com's 🇨🇳 AK's(semiautomatic)when they were dealer $269.00 wood stock and $279.00 folder. He decided to gold plate(not real)one of the folders.We kept it on a rack behind the counter as soon as you came in so it would catch your eye . Our customers were of every race,mostly hunters and collectors. They would not even give it a look .But when the homies came it .It was like a bug light to bugs .They went crazy .LOL... They would get it,Turn it sideways,And say They that's Chopper..Look at the price and hand it back .You know we couldn't sell that thing,Ended up trading it to another dealer at a show....
Probably. All evidence goes to the evidence locker. If a gun is stolen, it is part of the evidence. If a gun is the instrumentality of a crime (used to commit the crime) it is evidence. if a gun is found loose with no crime to accompany, usually the police will take it to keep it safe. Usually they will test the arm to see if it matches any arms - fired bullets - used in crimes; or to see if the gun were stolen.
Yes. Until the trial and when ballistic tests are done. When the trial is over usually the gun (ie the evidence) can be disposed of. It’s either returned to the owner, destroyed, or sold back to a firearms dealer (if its in good shape).
but here in australia .. if someone breaks into your house and you hurt them you are up for assult charges or murder charges depending on what happens... so .. yeah
I have a cousin who is a constable in Brisbane. She says since the gun ban has gone into place her department has seen an uptick in home-made guns used by criminals. In the end that's worse, because they have no serial numbers to trace them back to the source, and most of them are so poorly made that they can easily go off accidentally, or explode when fired. She says they were better off before the ban. Yes, suicides, domestic-abuse shootings, and mass-shootings are way down, but every other kind of gun crime is on the rise.
Nobody said people that owned those guns were criminals? They were just saying they are the most common guns used in crimes and found in police lockups. You should watch the video before commenting.
We should all buy more High Points, support an all American company, and keep them out of the hands of criminals. One each for your car, truck, tool box, tackle box, each bathroom, kitchen, garage, suitcase, and a few hiding places. Never be without a gun!
I once met a bandito when I was about 14 in my buddies trailer park and he had a .45 cal revolver that had a real long barrel and an extended case housing for the bullets and he had 4/10 shot gun shells in that revolver. It was a nasty little gun. I think he had bird shot in it and he let me shoot it at a big oak tree down by the river:) it was awesome!
Used to see all kinds of crazy stuff when I worked for a state police HQ. The best by far was a complete, good condition, fully functional WWI era Maxim MG.
Nobody's saying guns aren't dangerous. They are. But it's a fundamental right to be able to defend yourself with a firearm, especially considering the fact that criminals will never constrain themselves to the law when it comes to procuring firearms. That's why they should be treated with the utmost respect, and be readily available only to law-abiding citizens. The U.S. constitution says that American people's right to bear arms shall not be infringed. So quit your bitching about it, because it's entirely useless to do so, unless you want to utilize despotism and total ignorance of the U.S.'s founding documents to keep the general population from getting guns.Nobody's forcing you to live in America.
Two schools of thought... A) Criminals tend to go with the cheapest piece of shit firearm they can get their hands on. B) Any Decent gun finds its way OUT of the Evidence Locker and into the collection of the Officers.
That's not a Sigma, that's an SDVE. Yes, they are related, but the SDVE is a much better gun. Zero malfunctions through 650 rounds. It has a better, more natural grip angle compared to a Glock. The trigger isn't as light as a Glock, but its crisp. YankeeMarshal says he likes the SDVE better than a Glock, and I agree. I have a Glock 19 and an SD40VE...I like the SDVE better. I guess it's a poor mans Glock, but I'm not poor..I'm a gun collector. It is a great gun!
I was able to purchase my SD 9mm VE for under $300 from Academy. I am a Glock owner and was considering a Glock 19. I shot a friends Smith and noticed how similar it was to the Glock. I've added a little grip tape a $25 trigger kit and Bo Wallace at XS sights is currently attempting to fit it with a set of big dot sights for me. There is nothing inferior about this Smith Pistol. Good Call!
!00% correct, but you have to understand even though he says he likes the SD9VE, he is a 100% glock fanboy and will ever admit to it being a equal or better gun, which it is in my opinion. I have owned both and I prefer the grip of the smith any day of the week, it is just as reliable and accurate as the glock as well.
My dads friend found a WW2 German bazooka in a drug raid about two years ago. Fully functional with rockets. I don't think I could top it.
shit bro thats a bad thing for a drug dealer to have
+John Nelsestuen ur comment made my day haha
idk how yall think criminals get guns but the ones where im at have spotless .50 bmgs and old browning anti air rifles.... you cant go to academy and get one... i already tried... lol so who do gun laws protect? seriously when the thugs have nicer shit than the gun shows you know gun laws are meaningless...
+Ralph Niger I'm not going to say anything but me personally I have a browning 50cal in a friends garage and abunch of full auto but let's just say I'm in Texas and country if law comes to our door will see from miles away and 50cal is just a beast will make a armored vehicle look like a bitch but I'm not a drug dealer or a criminal
+Real Tube well you ARE a criminal by definition, how would you know they're coming from miles away ? especially at night
In the mid seventies my home was broken in to and my guns were stolen. A few weeks later the police asked me to come view their evidence room to see if my guns were there. They were not, but I observed something profound. There was not even ONE quality firearm in that locker. Not even one. I later told a cop friend about the experience and he told me something that I had already suspected. All good guns go home with the cops. He admitted that that was standard procedure.
floyd green ironic
I can't speak for every agency, but I know that we don't do that. Why would I want to risk a case against some dirt bag, just for a free gun? People will say, wait until after the case is over......Ever heard of appeal? It's just not worth it. Not to mention the paperwork that is involved these days. With computers, they can tell you exactly where certain items are stored in evidence, and if a gun is missing, its going to be someone's ass.
That sort of thing depends on the agency and the county or state involved. It does happen, but not every place.
DO NOT have any firearms stolen in the Los Angeles basin area. Probably not in PDSR California.
@floyd green i hope you weren't suprised to hear that. We are supposed to bowdown in hail to the thin blue line but then stuff like this comes to surface and what are we supposed to think then...to nice for a throw down gun? To much red tape...right.
The spoils of war
My dad is a cop and he arrested a guy who used a flintlock pistol to rob a 7-11. Its really funny when criminals do dumb things.
I robbed a store with a wheellock
If he needed a smokescreen it would have been effective.
😂😂😂
i did one with a matchlock
at least it wasn't a plunger
Back when I was in college, I took a course in Forensics. The fellow who ran the course worked for the Washington State Patrol. One time, we were taken to the evidence room where guns like this are kept. He showed us the WSP's pride-and-joy 'evidence gun'''...a WWII Japanese Nambu light machine gun! They had it mounted on the wall, and apparently several museums had tried to purchase it from them.
I'm surprised the fing coppers didn't send it through the woodchipper with a grin on their faces. Maybe they're decent coppers.
IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!
@@mpkp2011 it is in a museum, a very very private one. Plus if SHTF, they have a crew-served weapon.
@@vhfgamer Exactly! Damn cops love destroying priceless historical pieces.
Needs be in museum
We have all heard the story of the old lady who's husband had passed away. She took her husbands firearms to the police station. Unfortunately not all cop shops re sell firearms such as New York City, where they destroy them. Well, this ladies husband was a veteran and low and behold, she turned in a STG-44! Needless to say, the police decided not to destroy that rifle. Sorry, not on subject but it was a nice story.
***** was that really necessary?
You do realize the SS were the nazis, not the german army right? So unless he was SS he probably wasnt.
Wow! Not cool old lady. Not cool at all.
***** So you're ruling out the most typical reason for why vets have war relics? Mainly, claiming objects from your fallen foe. Now doesn't that seem like an logical reason?
***** I can't imagine it being that hard to smuggle it back.
I'll tell you how my Glock 36 ended up in the Memphis Police Department evidence room.
I was in a motorcycle wreck and they illegally confiscated it despite the fact that I hold a handgun carry permit.
You wouldn't believe the hoops I had to jump through to get it back. In fact, I'm confident that many people simply abandon their firearms with no hope of ever retrieving them in such a situation.
Later, the person who was in charge of the evidence room was convicted of all manner of crimes, including stealing and re-selling cocaine and other drugs that had been confiscated and placed there for safekeeping, as well as stealing wads and wads of cash.
So much cash was recovered from his house that it was ruined from mold growing on it.
that's a truly amazing story bro,. Just how corrupt are they in Memphis? A little corrupt or completely corrupt?
Robert Maybeth very
Welp, being a resident of Memphis this concerns me
I was in Memphis for 17 years. I just moved away, last April, to Decaturville. There are some thing that I miss about Memphis. Corrupt police and politicians are not on the list!
John Pifer damn!
I had a gun that ended up in an evidence locker. It was stolen from my home, and later recovered by the local police investigators. Rossi Ranch Hand .45 Colt. The investigator got a kick out of it because he'd never seen one around here before. The investigator mentioned that the criminal must have been a world class idiot, because a gun like that was too unique to sell or even move easily in our area without drawing attention.
Seriously. I had a ranch hand and the day I bought it and carried it out to my car, people were following me home asking to shoot it.
I have that exact gun lots of fun ask Steve McQueen. 45 long colt is actually available unlike most other rounds so it’s still something that I can afford to shoot.
We once recovered an OLD Smith and Wesson 38 that had been used by an LAPD officer to participate in the Olympics in the 30's. We had another guy cut down a Remington 1100, thereby disabling its semi-auto capability. He robbed a convenience store with it and tried to shoot the officer that responded, but forgot to take the safety off. My favorite though was the 17 year old that tried to rob a convenience store and get rid of the clerk as a witness. The clerk gave him the money and the kid fired directly at the clerk, who was standing behind a display of cigarettes. The kid was using a 22 short and the round only made it through about 7 packs iirc, causing the clerk to think he was using blanks. The clerk chased the kid down the street with the kid firing back at him, all the while with the clerk thinking the gun wasn't real. Luckily the kid missed.
That clerk is gangsta
My brother worked for the NYPD back in the 90s, and he told one time he was in the property room of his precinct looking at all the confiscated or turned in firearms and he found a German MP-40 that belonged to a vet, who had recently died. It was in really good condition too.
Did he keep it? That thing must be worth a fortune. Would be awesome just to own one
@@jackmemphis777 I guarantee the pigs destroyed it.
@@Khoros-Mythos especially in nyc 😖
@@jackmemphis777 you can buy them in Canada in 9mm and .22 they are around $500-600
@@Mcnutts3 im not talking about an MP-40 clone, Im talking about an original fully-automatic MP-40
My mate who's a cop once found a sawn off and cut down H&H double rifle in .577 nitro express he said the fireball out of the end of the barrel when they took ballistic impressions was about 4 feet long and kicked hard enough to throw it out of their hands
holy shit
If I got my hands on the Bubba who cut down that H&H, I would probably be arrested.
Though that should have never been done in the first place, I would slap a SBR stamp on that thing and take it out to the range every week so fast it would make your head spin.
These days, it would cost about 4-5 dollars a shot!
Joshua Lansell-Kenny damn what kind of drug dealer was their dude
"Cut down Mauser broomhandle"
Now I am sad.
Me too
Same here. It makes me want to rescue them. : (
since it's already hacked, make a DL-44. Sad yet recoverable. maybe...
mccscott45 k
mccscott45 it's depressing what people do to history
the craziest thing we had in the evidence locker where I work is an MP-40. It wasn't used in a crime - someone's granddad died and they found it in his attic. He brought it home from WW2 as a souvenir. It was still loaded. They surrendered it to us, and we finally managed to find a military museum that would take it.
Why would you possibly give it to a museum
@@BoredAmerican So everyone can take a look at it and it's safe there.
@@RandomGuy9 orrrrr... hear me out... hold onto it and have a rare machine gun
And then everyone clapped
@@BoredAmerican because it's in Canada where it's virtually impossible to privately own a full-auto. The only way for the family to legally own that one would be to have a smith deactivate it, and they didn't want to bother. We did offer them that option.
I had purchased two firearms in 1991 a 20 gauge shotgun and a .380 with ammo at a pawn shop. Police arrived at the pawn shop due thugs tagging the pawnshop. I exited the pawnshop suddenly I had four police officers pointing their guns at me to lower my paper bag of firearms. I showed them I purchased the firearms with receipts and they still arrested me for unlawful carry of a firearm. 😳 Anyways 1 year later I received a phone call the local police department stating to pick up my firearms if not they would be distroyed. So of course I pick them up. However to this day I still have that charge on my record which is highly upsetting.
See if you can get it cleared, it was under false pretense and 25 years ago. I'm almost certain you can get it wiped without much hassle.
WTF is this crap. In a state of justice, you'd get no record for something you didn't do - and certainly you wouldn't need to hire a lawyer to clear up anything caused by unfounded suspicion of some random police officer. If you didn't get charged and convicted, there shouldn't be anything in your record as a result.
wrong records of arrests remain until expunged. you have to get the arrest expunged.
Yes, I was talking about a justice state. Not a police state, or state of lawyers. You guys need to start talking to politicians for adding some sense in your system.
SPRAY 915 that's bullshit that they arrested you
so basically, cheap guns tend to be used in crimes, because they are cheap and the people who buy them dont have the money to aquire better arms. The joke being that if a guy had cash to throw down on an HK he probably isnt in the economic situation that would necessitate a life of crime
Not really that much of a joke and more of a fact lol yes people with money still commit crimes but it's usually an unarmed white collar crime
+rob clay
According to studies by the NIJ and FBI, most serious criminals use stolen weapons that medium or upper medium quality. Mainly because the gang steals enough good guns that they all have plenty of good choices.
Part of me feels that if there were better restrictions on handguns themselves, murder would go down in some way, 90% of firearm homicides are caused by handguns.
It's funny too, because the media isn't targeting the handguns, they're going for the rifles... The weapons that cause less than 1% of murders in the US...
What seems more logical would be restricting handguns, and allowing rifles of any type... Allow open carry for PDW's and SBR's, or even long guns.
The Second Amendment is put in place to deter tyranny and threats foreign and domestic, and battle rifles seem like the most logical weapon for anything like that.
Not really my opinion or theory, just kind of a speculation, I'm just saying IF there were some kind of gun control, big scary rifles aren't the problem.
+N75911 Brother, restrictions on handguns arent going to solve the problem. You have to remember that by definition, Criminals dont obey the law, so if someone is willing to use a gun to murder someone, they wont care about "restrictions" the government has. Not to mention restricting the law abiding citizens access to guns has no effect on whether criminals have access to guns. They dont shop at the same gun stores as the rest of us.
+potz nthotz .shit i could beat someone with my cat if i was crazy, ans
d he got claws.
Many years ago, a friend of mine acquired a Colt revolver, chambered for .38 special, from the Camden, NJ PD. They had an auction when they were clearing out the evidence room. This was the most accurate revolver I had ever shot. Even at 25 yards, all the shots were in the "X" ring.The trigger was "butter slick". Magnificent shooter!
Make and model?
I have a Colt 38 Trooper.....4 inch barrel....it does have a smooth trigger pull and shoots great.....even smoother than my Smith 357 😅
didn't know they did this in Jersey thanks
@@michaeldidonato6681 Like I said, it was a long time ago.
Shot two times by an active shooter and rogue off duty cop when I was 19 years old protecting my mother from his attack after she ended their relationship. I will NEVER blame the gun...but the man behind the gun, that's the issue. I'm glad you made this point.
ohhh the good days when you could go to the hardware store to buy a sks for less than a 100 bucks
Ha! Those must have been the days!!
+PvMcris I remember buying crates of SKS's for about a grand along with ammo for right around 1-3 cents a round. Ah, the good old days. Wish I kept ahold of some unopened crates.
I'm not 18 yet so I can't get an SKS but the Chinese ones run for like 300 :(
+no no [arm your wife, arm your children, arm your parents!]
When I was 18 I paid $60 for a chinese and a year later bought a beautiful russian sks for $90.
Hmm, I thought a full automatic AR or AK would be in there.
Or one of those, 30 rounds military high capacity detachable clip magazine rifle.
You know, according to politicians.
[EDIT]: I've seen too many replies from who are too dumb to get my obvious sarcasm so now I want to make it very clear that this statement above is a sarcasm.
Have a nice day.
+早川“Hidemaru”ひでまる 'Assault Weapons' are used so infrequently in crimes the FBI doesn't even keep statistics on their use in crimes.
Don't forget you average ghost gun. With a .30 caliber clip that can shot 30 bullets within half a second. 30 MAGAZINE CLIP IN HALF A SECOND.
sounds expensive to run...
+Africanhotdogchild93 I love that video!! lmao
gangsters aren't rich like in the movies unless they are close to the big dogs
The department I worked for had a fully legit, full auto MP40. It had been there since the early 90s. According to the records and the old timers it was smuggled back by a vet, whose son (a crackhead) later found it and used it in a robbery. Thankfully it was not destroyed and is still "archived" at the station according to folks I know that still are there
Buddy in our neighbourhood passed away, and he left my stepdad his firearms. There was a 20mm lahti in there with a crate of ammo. That was the highlight of my life that weapon.
Action Movie Evidence Locker:
AK47 x20
M60 x1
Gold Plated Desert Eagle x1
P90 x5
RPG x1
Unique WMD (Named after an ancient god) x1
Steam Pipe x1
My dad had a friend who worked in the Detroit Police Department when he once did a drug raid in 2007 they recovered 50 kilos of Crack cocaine, 55.2 million in cash, 4 Draco style AK47 pistols, 9 1911 .45s, 16 Tec 9s, a military issue M16 that was issued to a soldier in the Vietnam War (The soldier was already long dead it was stolen), over 20 Glocks of various models, and a MAC 10 he said it was the scariest bust of his life
Former Correctional Officer here. One night, I was part of a cell raid and, among the usual contraband (Marijuana, cell phones, etc.), one guy found a zip gun hidden in a hole in the wall. The guy had taken a piece of pipe and attached it to a self carved block of wood. The striker was a shaved nail that could be held under tension with a rubber band. He had a small sandwich bag with a few rounds of .22lr. Gave us a damn good scare.
Here in Mexico a lot of interesting stuff is on evidence locker, things like desert eagles, S&W 500, 1911, Lugers from the WW2, guns covered with gold, tactical AR15 or really expensive guns.
and what happens to them
WCGwkf The army destroy them, except the ones that are covered with gold they put them in a museum like trophies. The guns that the police have usually come back to the streets because police is full of corruption.
BuckGreywolfe At the end they're the same, just evil people, in bad hands a golden and engraved colt custom is the same that a Jennings gun.
@Buck - it has little do with with broke ass criminals, In America they use those guns once and then there gone no point in using a desert eagle if your just gonna chuck it in a river right afterwards in Mexico however there thumbing there noses at the cops wether there paid off or not, and there telling the public we are the predators your the sheep.
Why do cartels like to pimp their guns with flash? Are they trying to be like gold finger in the James Bond flicks?
A cop told me when I was a kid - well under 21, about a kid years ago in Quincy Ma. was caught robbing a convenience store with a civilian Luger Navy that had been stolen from a collector . Even at that age I knew this kid was a dummy. At the time it was worth well over $2000 in any shop in America
The Hi-Point is so ghetto that I'm surprised it doesn't come packaged with a bottle of Night Train.
Anti Dem I want one. Their torture test looked pretty legit.
Lord Draconia It's a pretty good gun to tell you the truth. Accurate as f*ck. I'm consistently shooting the circle within the dome of clay targets out, leaving the dome intact without the inner circle. Like a clay donut. Mmmm...donuts.
Lord Draconia
Man Falls chill
Did somebody say ghetto? www.sportsmansoutdoorsuperstore.com/products2.cfm/ID/169719/916m/hi-point-c9-9mm-with-hundred-dollar-bill-finish
My friend's youngest brother, a minor, sawed the barrels off their Parker Trojan Shotgun ,which was their grandad's, after seeing the film " The Godfather"..
He almost killed his youngest brother..
Aside from the cheep guns is the ammo, most every gun I ever confiscated had a mix-match of ammo. A 6 shot revolver would invariably have 5 rounds in it and they were all different. People who carried these were generally idiots. The guy with the Browning Highpower and spare magazines with hydro shock ammo was scary, he had a good idea of what he was doing.
That guy sounds cool, shat did you arrest him for
My SWAT buddy showed me a Chopped Remington 1100 with a 14.5" barrel and was made Full Auto. He said the Man was a local illegal gunsmith who made illegal M16s from Semi auto AR's and such but that man got a life sentence. The funny thing is that the SWAT uses his SBS Full Auto 1100 because he did a good job on it.
Ours burnt a whole Mt when thay wheer shooting confiscated m11 n others
Disgusting. Jailing someone for something that the .gov is prohibited from prohibiting. The police should take his place in prison.
@@johnwurfel2862 agreed. I'm in new york state and I had around 3k dollars worth of "non compliant guns" confiscated. It sickens me that they are completely permitted by the constitution and legal in 99% of states except mine and now they're gone forever probably being used by officers. 😢
@@quorthonsinferno5119 not only new York state but also California
This upsets me
I live in a small town, and to be honest, most cops here usually pick over the evidence room stuff before it's auctioned off.
When I was a kid, someone called the cops because I was shooting my brand new Crossman .177 that I got for Christmas out in our yard. The cops "confiscated" it. No reason given.
The very next day, my buddy and neighbor Greg, (whose Dad was a cop) had himself a brand new Crossman .177 just like mine. Nobody called the cops while he was shooting it though.
Our police department has a fully automatic, .45, M3 grease gun that was found during a traffic stop sometime in the late 1940's. It is still functional. They have it in a display case, it gets a lot of looks. They also have a fully automatic M14 that was found during a search of a house that is now used by the SWAT team.
My sister was a LEO here in Indiana, she wound up nailing this guy for aggravated assault and domestic battery. When she pulled him over and arrested him, the guy had a MINIGUN in his trunk. Later turned out that the guy had attempted to convert it for firing PAINTBALLS . . . totally weird
There are also people manufacturing guns in their garages in places where guns are hard to get. The most useful gun in WW2 that replaced the Tommy gun was literally made of plumber parts. Both the American grease gun and the British sten are made this way.
My uncle Ralph is a cop and he found a home-made Molotov/grenade launcher. It looked like a tube with metal bases to protect the bottle and you'd load it like an old black powder gun. pretty weird.
my grandfather is retired Henderson NV PD. he's my best friend! anyways, we are avid gun enthusiest, he has shown me photographs of seized weapons out here in Vegas and Vegas sub districts. so far I'm most impressed with the AA-12 and the Barrett BMG .50 cal.
I've owned all 5 of the firearms mentioned and still come across them quite often (extremely cheap). This video was very accurate, as are most of your videos. Keep up the good work.
if you judge how good a firearm is by how it is used, the Sigma is not a good firearm, but if you judge a firearm by how many times it is used, well, that's an entirely different story, now isn't it?
sure kid
So my sigma is a bad firearm because people have misused it?
No, It's a great firearm because of how many times it's been used.
+EHW2 correct
please vive these guns a good home
Surprised I didn't see a 1000 round per half second 30 magazine clip ghost gun
Fatty McJugs it's good they didn't have one. I can only imagine the PTSD that it would cause.
wild bill ptsd and death radiates from those armor penetrating hollow points shooting guns
I pretty sure there was one
Labo Loog with a chainsaw attachment.
Labo Loog Best comment
The end of the video seems like an ASPCA ad "These guns have had a hard life, sponsor a gun today!"
jarhead0627 Won't you please give these troubled guns a good home?
Keep these poor guns off drugs
Can we get thats song in a video please i want to show it off
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what kind of idiot cuts down a broom handle mauser
The criminal sort of idiot. Frankly, I think that should be a crime and is an offense to God and man.
THe craziest thing I've seen come from an evidence locker was an M-1 carbine with a copper pipe for a barrel.
The weirdest gun I came across was a beautifully tuned revolver that was made on a prison lathe. Go figure.
8:20 this gun is a classic here in Brazil, the I.N.A Tigre (Tiger). Often used by criminals over here aswell, but not as much as Taurus and Rossi revolvers.
I went into the armory at the station once. It had racks of Thompson full auto carbines. The Sergeant that worked there wouldn’t even let me pick one up. He saw it was driving me nuts but He never let me wander the armory.
I went to a police auction in missouri and they were selling sawed off shotguns. some of them were cut off to only 10 inch barrels and chopped of stocks. they didn't seem to care at all they were illegal to own. then you had to have the gun sent to the local FFL at the pawnshop to pick up the gun and he was charging $75 to call your gun in and fill out the paperwork. they had a ton of broken little darringer pistols that were froze up or missing parts. they were selling for $20-30$ then you had to turn around and spend $75'to pick it up. they neglected to tell anyone about the $75 transfer fee so they could make more money off of the guns.
They sell them to you by day and then come and arrest you that night 🤣🤣🤣
@@CorePathway definition of psyop
The transfer fee is pretty standard so everybody should know. No different than buying a firearm online.
how about a fake training bazooka sold to a gun buy back? lololol.
Wut
Anyone can 3d print those from a 3d printed gunshow loophole culture.
bigfoot5720 omg. you can 3d print money. spam 3d printed guns at gun buybacks.
MattV2099: Guns & Food I think they give extra money for high explosive salt clipazines too
bigfoot5720 there's a 100,000$ reward for a 600 round clip in california
Here in California, if your gun goes to an evidence locker, regardless of why it got there or if you owned it legally. It's gone forever. Period. The judges and the police departments work together to keep them from being returned.
my friends dad used to work at a police station and they found m82a1 with a tiny barrel... yeah i really wasnt expecting that
JoshuaTerlouw shoulder-be-gone
That's like a $5-6000 barrel too. The most expensive part of an already obscenely expensive firearm. Sawing off literally thousands of dollars of value on top of having the whole thing eventually wind up in a police evidence locker. o_o
The most interesting piece I ever saw was at the Hill County (Tx) jail. There, I saw an M3 grease gun that some criminal degenerate had destroyed. According to the sheriff, the criminal knew the cops were coming for him, so he took an oxy/accy torch, and melted the bolt-face on this weapon. Such a waste :(
Funny, that's just what they do down at OSHA. Ever wonder whose job it is to destroy firearms? Just ask your local Safety Supervisor 😉
I worked in firearms wholesale for many years, so I knew lots of licensed dealers, some of whom made bids on guns which police depts had originally seized from criminals. Lots of stuff like Eric showed the viewers, as well as the occasional jewel like a Colt Python, Sig Sauer, or once a WWII Gewehr 43. A bit of caution to the dealer though...........make sure if you win a bid on a certain lot of these firearms, that you first check to make sure they are not loaded. Several dealers I know have received guns from various dept's evidence rooms which were fully loaded, including rounds in the chamber. One dealer examining the bore on a pump shotgun, saw it was blocked with something....the something turned out to be a fairly sizable bag of cocaine (which he turned back in).
He turned the coke back in? What a score gone to waste. Would've been the happiest day of my life to get a big bag of free blow.
5:10 I'd bet the population of standard .22 rifles is probably the biggest reason so many of them end up in evidence. Almost every gun owner in the world has at least one simple .22 rifle, and it was probably their first gun.
a) yes have one
b) not first, but close enough
Firearms Instructor for Nassau County, NY PD here. Our Property Bureau had (and turned over to FTU for educational purposes)A German MG08 water cooled crew served machine gun.
My dad was a small town police chief. He had an M3 Grease Gun in his lockup for the longest time.
My neighbor is a police officer, he found and confiscated a semiauto m240b with 5 loaded 100 link belts the guy didn't have license, Car insurance and was a felon
You don't need insurance to own a handgun. If it was the law, I wouldn't comply.
RobsGamingNetwork um, there was no handgun talked about in Brandon's comment he said an M240, yes the belt fed machine gun, thats not a handgun
Lol really???
Yea man he showed me pics of it inside the evidence locker, this was in hall county ga gainesville
brandon toler Was full auto or just converted to semi?? Sounds awesome. If I was your neighbor I would have taken vietnam pictures with it lol
A full auto Browning 1919 beltfed ,from a meth raid in Morrow.Behind your store.
It was made in the Philippines of all places. They even had a Glock18, also from PI.The Mexicans have some bad shit. Not just those 32 auto and a pig sticker.
Most illegal weapons made in the in Philippines are made out of scrap metal and built in someone's backyard.
+Fumxe it's true. They build guns and cars out of straight scrap metal lmao
Not surprised. Clayton county is the armpit of Georgia. Not because of these guys of course.
Heard from a guy that was a firearms forensics investigator and he said by far the Jimenez/Jennings/Raven "ring of fire" guns were the overwhelming majority of guns they ran into for crime investigations.
As a young black man, I was easily conned into the Democratic / "liberal" belief system by social pressure and this feeling of "racial duty" that I had to be a Democrat, as a proud "brutha", and fight against the rich, white Republicans who were out to get us... Now, I am a _Libertarian_ (not to be confused with "American liberalism", which is quite a misnomer, IMO) ... as I got older and wiser, I realized the Democrats are just as big of idiots as the Republicans ... and they're arguably just two rich-boy cliques of the same regime with the same agendas and self-serving motives. I once worshipped Obama as my "negro savior" and thought he was gonna really change things for us black folk ... then I realized that only _black people_ can change things for black people! Seems obvious, but they pump this shit into our heads as black children from pre-school to the end of high school (and often in college too). Also, there are a lot of wealthy, respectable black people _already out there_ because they did something with their lives. I definitely see/know that law enforcement, the prison industrial complex, War on Drugs, etc is all totally racist, but those are things Democrats and Republicans BOTH created and continue to support. And I also realized that the "gun control" movement/lobby is just a tool to increase government's size and power, speed up the process of Constitutional deterioration/destruction and further enslave the so-called citizens (now "subjects" seems more accurate) and disarm/weaken the people and their ability to resist and/or rebel against authoritarian, totalitarian autocratic regimes ...
Thomas Darke Fake black man,LMAO just keep it real.
Thomas Darke post your picture
+randy tucker why u gotta judge B?
This video had nothing to do with race. Why bring it up? What's the point?
+Thomas Darke sir...... One day I would like to shake your hand, excellent words
As always guys, great video. You are unselfish in giving out information but also frank and straightforward. I'm a 61 year old fan of yours. Before my US visa expires this 2020 I pray to God that the opportunity comes for me to visit you. I'll be taking off from New Zealand but i'm a Filipino citizen and I come from a long family line of gun enthusiasts. God bless us all.
I've had a couple of my guns go through the police evidence locker by virtue of having been stolen and recovered. It was easier to get them back from the thief than the cops.
Get a gun safe probably huh
@@nicholasgeere5125 It was probably from his vehicle like most stolen guns.
@@trashpanda2875 stop leaving your guns in your car probably huh
@@nicholasgeere5125 I doubt that you've never left a gun in your car by accident
@@trashpanda2875 No, i dont leave my gun in my car. If someone steals it, it links me to any crime committed with it. If some punk ass teenager breaks into my car looking for smokes, its on my conscious if he hurts himself or someone's daughter with it. If my kids find it while looking for something they left behind in the car, its on me if something happens. I keep my gun secure wherever i take it because its a big responsibility to own something like that.
If your youtube comment starts with "ive had a couple of my guns stolen" theres something you are doing wrong that you need to address
I remember in the early 60s visiting my hometown sporting goods store when it had racks overloaded with British Enfield rifles for under $20.00. So cheap I didn't appreciate their value.
And by the late 1980's they were still only 79$.
Back in 1996-97 did a tour of the FBI building we got the chance to look into the weapons locker (through glass) and on the rack was an antique Black powder side by side with a beautiful polished oak stock and a wooden trigger guard. Hopeful it was able to eventual come on the market.or given to a museum, it saddens me to think that such a great example of craftsmanship was possibly locked away or destroyed.
damn criminals ruin it for everybody...and hoplophobic activists and politicians make things worse :-(
Hoplophobic?
Marc JustMarc when i turn 18 ima get a Handgun and keep it too protect myself and occasionally take it too the Shooting Range,But unfortunately u need a License
KoreaTecVEVO im 17 n carry a smith
ricky rick What
Korea_Tecc_VEVO Sorry to break it to ya, but in most states you cant buy a handgun until you're 21.
el cheapo
Hahah 😂.. That was suppose to be a joke right.
nice
DinomatonIsland mis guns
the struggle is real even for gangsters
XD
Hi points should come with a bottle of monarch, a $20 dollar tree gift card, 3 mags and a melted tire prison tattoo.
my cousin was a cop in Albuquerque but later on became a detective during a raid someone had brought in a sawed of enfield rifle, 2 hand grenades an a bunch of pipeguns able to shoot .22 rifle an some .410 & .12 an 20 gauge ammo
Are you guys saying that SBR SBS laws don't work?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? THIS IS MADNESS!
lol
Madness? THIS...IS...'MURCA!!!
Eric, you used the phrase "high cap mag" while discussing the SKS. you and I both know they are standard issue equipment. Don't concede our ground to the gun grabbers
SKS standard magazine was 10 rounds. everything else would be hi cap right?
^^ Ten round fixed magazine that takes stripper clips at that. There was one rare variant that was manufactured to accept standard AK 47 rounds though.
teeroux
The AK and SKS both use 7.62x39...
teeroux I have seen a SKS with a AK-47 magazine and it was pretty cheap.
Actually Eric was right dude. A. 30 round mag is a. "High cap" mag for the SKS since it is meant to have a 10 round.
I'm from da hood and I approve dis message
Fun Story, In Sweden they sometimes have weapon amnestys, Where you can turn in unlicensed weapons to the police without questions, One year one guy turned in a Carl Gustaf M48, and 2 years( or so ago) somone turned in a 155MM Artillery projectile, that was live..
The Taurus PT92 is a crazy popular one around here. Everyone has either a pt92 or a Taurus 24/7. They are cheap and reliable. They shoot true and most people here keep one in their truck.
my first gun since I could not afford the Barretta 92F., Pt92 made in Brazil is what I had to opt for.
I own a PT92 and it's not bad for an M9 knockoff. It's just sitting there in my storage unless I have it out on a class.
@@4thSurvivor1990 I've put alot of rounds through a PT92 both Gen 1 and gen 2's. Never had a single issue with it, it didn't matter if it was 90 degrees and 100% humidity or if it's over 40 below it just worked. And was always accurate, I also personally liked the trigger feel.
Why does he keep mentioning the "black market"? There is nothing wrong with the black market. Buying a gun from your neighbor or friend or brother etc is considered the black market. Dont fall into the trap of using government words.
probably a lot of filed serials in the mix.
its not black market to sell a legally obtained gun to a person who can legally own a gun. black market refers to illegally obtained guns being sold to anyone
The term "black market" has been tossed around so much these days. It's just hilarious. To give you an idea of how outrageous this is, New York City recently banned "underground" dinner parties because they are technically operating as restaurants on the "black market".
Source on this New York restaurant claim? I'm having a seriously hard time believing anything you've said. If I were to sell a gun to my friend who has no criminal background (I don't either) that is not considered "black market," as said by previous posters. You just seemed to be filled with disinformation.
No it's not, black market is selling a gun illegally or to someone you know can't legally own a gun.
Most exotic I have seen end up in evidence was an artillery model P-08 luger circa 1917. I was the person that a teenager used the pistol to rob a convenience store. He was eventually caught and the pistol was recovered. Irony was he got less than 30 dollars during the robbery. That particular pistol is worth 2500-4000 to a collector.
My LGS recently had a lot of evidence locker guns. I picked up a FEG PA-63 from the bunch
My dads best friend is a cop and he'll often tell this story about how his station raided a house for drugs and found a SAW assault rifle welded to a homemade turret.
Devistator99 assault rifle? but the saw is an lmg...
Leave me alone.... people make mistakes.
Devistator99 lmao he is just correcting you, dont be so salty.
I get it, was only having a bad day (^_^)
A SAW is a suppressive fire weapon and an assault rifle has the purpose of being an assaulted weapon so the are two totally different things not trolling just letting you know but anyways that's a crazy story it's kinda like the scene from breaking bad...
My uncle once found a Winchester model 1894 in an evidence locker
I don’t watch your vids as much as I should these days, but you guys are some of the most down to earth gun channel guys on UA-cam. Y’all make a good team too. Love what you do
In northern ireland you dont find guns in evidence lockers, you find hatchets and mallets, good ol' fashioned way.
There's definitely still some IRA explosives around Ireland at least.
I know I'm late, I love watching these old videos. I have a sd9ve and it is amazing almost 3000 rounds never a jam, the trigger isn't great but it is a very reliable gun.
I bought a brand new SKS paratrooper in the early 90's for $120..... I loved it. Unfortunately, it was stolen along with all of my other firearms. I filed a police report and of course never saw them again. I just hope my guns never were involved in anything stupid.
how did your firearms get stolen? I don't understand.
I imagine the same way most things are stolen. When the owner isn't home.
tansen2 I'm dump sorry
It's aaaiiight. Keep reedin.... thayz sum bone dead stoopid dumpies jist ahayd. The truly sick part is these are the smoretest leeders of theyrrr cummunicapaties. Mr. Marlin below is the Inglish teecher.
LEO in SC here. The craziest thing I've ever seen is a real, true homemade garage special automatic 9mm SMG. It kind of looked like a schizophrenic ape on meth tried to make an MP40. It had no rifling and an absolutely insane cyclic rate. Pulling the trigger sounded like someone ripping the most violent fart ever. Used Sterling mags. For a while we were hearing some shithead on shot spotter with a converted .22 that fired at about the same rate. The "buzzsaw guy" had a short career when we found him dead. Looking at his 22 rifle it was clear he deleted the disconnector.
I found a Romanian SAR 1 that came out of a cpd lockup it was seized because the guy tried to murder a sheriff's deputy I looked at it and noticed something was off upon further inspection I found it was drilled for the third pin and had the fa trigger group in it lol I handed it back to the sales associate and told him I don't want to see it anymore....guy got alot more charges tacked on
garand80 So you could have purchased it and they had no idea it was full auto? I think I would have purchased it, changed the trigger group and kept the old trigger assembly in a safe place in case the world ever comes to a situation where that would be essential. I knew a Marine that shipped a fully auto AK back from the sand box. I don’t know for sure because I haven’t had contact with him in 20+ years but I bet it is hidden nicely in case it it ever needed.
NO! keep it and put the a semi trigger assy in as soon as you get home, then keep the fa trigger assy for SHTF
my dads friend is a cop and he showed us a 10/22 that was in the evidence locker that was converted FA, the job was clean almost looked like a pro did it
I remember back in high school - even before the internet - you could buy manuals on how to FA the 10/22 and Mini-14 with common hand tools. This company called Palladin Press published them, as well as those Poor Man's James Bond and Anarchist Cookbook series of books.
It's amazing I'm still alive, now that I think of it.
@@ML-dl1cp LOL you must be old like me. I remember that stuff back when I was in junior High.
To be completely honest if some key robbed me with a full size Mosin Nagant I wouldn't even be mad. I'd be impressed.
I worked at a gun shop in Aurora CO. We were the importer for Ranato Gammba shotguns. They run from $3,000 to $250,000. We had one from Atlanta GA. I think com in for rebuild. It was stolen and who ever took it cut the stock off and chopped the barrel down to 5 inches. It was a side lock so it was over $20,000 to start. We sent it back to Italy to be rebarreled and restocked. The good thing was we still had the measurements for the stock so we could refit it to the owners body. When it came in we all wanted to throw up. The engraving was still not bad but the serial number was filed off. The only way they got it was with acid to bring it back out enough to track it. I was the one that test fired all the firearms that came from our gunsmith shop that wasn't on location it was a mile away from the shop. When the gunsmiths did a wonderful job restoring it. The gunsmith in Italy that engraved it sent a letter with it saying he had to remove the engraving and try to re engrave it but it was a total loss so they refit the side locks in a new receiver. He wasn't going to let a piece of artwork go out the door with shotty artwork. We called the owner and asked him what he wanted engraved on it. He had different types of birds that he used it for and we wanted the date it was created and the date that it was rebuilt on the trigger guard. The engraver did such a great job on it that it was published in a book in Italy with the story. I wish I could remember the books name. It was in 2001 and my memory isn't that good any more. When it came back I had the luxury of shooting it for the customer who flew back to Denver for the finnal fitting and we had it the same as it was when he first had it fitted. He was so happy to have his side by side back he bought us all dinner at a really nice restaurant that night. Of coarse he took us all to the sporting clays range to have a good day too. I was one of the lucky 5 that went. We had about 25 employee's. That was the best time I have ever had on the coarse.
I never liked the suicide firearms that came in. It was usually the family that would bring them in. We have a mother and father bring in a S&W highway patrolman in that was covered in blood and grey matter and I took it out of the envelope and didn't realize that it was blood untill I saw the rings where the rest of the ammunition was at and the blood and pieces were. I went into the workshop to clean my hands and when I came out the people were leaving with the gun. One of the employees sad they didn't want it. It wasn't his job to do that so I brought them back in and told them that it was worth some good money. The mother said I don't want it I will take whatever you will give me for it. They went on a different shop and they were only going to give them $75.00 for it. I offered them $250 for it because it was going to have to be completely disassembled and cleaned. They agreed to sell it to us and the owner fired the guy that said they didn't want it. I ended up buying it for the $250.00 because I did the cleaning and the owner was happy with me. The lady came back with a big box full of firearms because she couldn't look at them. She came back and wanted to speak to me and the owner let me buy all the firearms but we couldn't buy the ammunition so she gave it to us ie me. It was full of older ammunition and I pulled them and reloaded them. I have many more stories but it would get more boring. Happy shooting.
neat video! back in the 80's, I worked for a gunshop and traveled all over SC, and parts of NC & even GA, buying from police departments. have several stories of items bought, as follows:
1 - Smith Model 41 with the 7 3/8" barrel and brake from Horry County SC. serial number range put it very early in the series. Drug dealer like it 'cause it looked like an 'assassin gun'. He was carrying what at that time was worth $600-800 gun, arrested with about $20 worth of crack
2 - in the bottom of the box of semi auto junk pistols from a department in GA was an Iver Johnson 30 carbine pistol version of the M-1 carbine. this had the neat cutts-like compensator on it. I was digging thru a box we bought from them based on weight, found it while still there. We (myself and some of the cops) took it to the local range their police department used...and when I pulled the trigger we found out it was rigged to be full auto! Cops were standing there so we all took a turn shooting 3-5 rounds, then clearing the jam, and then I handed it back to the department
3- In the locker of my hometown department in SC was a gun no-one could figure out, a bolt-gun. Old, no scope mount, stripper clip slot. Also had receiver sights & a sporter stock. Criminal had no ammo so was going into stores and waving it at people. I bought that one. It was a Savage Mod 20 in 250-3000 caliber, and in really good shape, considering how our rocket-surgeon used it. Only a few thousand made!
4-Guy in my hometown arrested for domestic, was waving a "308 caliber home-made pump rifle" He had taken a Swiss 1911 rifle, and after cutting the barrel down with a hacksaw and filing it, he cut the stock down, very near the magazine. In front of that, he had a bar running from the front of the stock out to the new muzzle, and had braised a bracket to it. The bar had a tube that mostly surrounded it, with another thicker tube attached to that for the fore end. Add to this a crudely braised bar to the straight pull bolt handle, and cut off the ring at the back of the bolt (AKA: the SAFETY). He had also braised a steel bar to the rear sight housing for a makeshift scope mount. Oh..HE WAS SHOOTING 308 FACTORY AMMO IN IT! The cops said they had actually SHOT it and the cases bulged and split, but the thing worked. The guy claimed to have shot several large deer with it, and the cops noted he had mounts on the wall....
5-Last one. My dad wanted a single shot shotgun to keep around for security, as he was getting feeble (Korean War Vet). At our local department, in a load of guns, there was one in PERFECT condition, an H&R in 20 gauge, not cut/as new, complete with the box! I took it and after logging it into the store, I took it home to dad. He noticed someone had used a marker-pen & marked the buttstock "SUICIDE" & the date. I said "oops, I missed that." Dad hit the button...and a fired shell popped out! A check of newspaper records on the butt stock's date revealed dad & I had known the guy! (small town) Dad kept it as-is, but never shot it, as per him, "it definitely worked once."
Those are the "Top 5" I can name off the top of my head. i did this for about 4 years, but then Al Gore Invented the internet (ahem), and Gunbroker ended our little side business we had of used guns at crazy-low prices
IF Y'ALL WANT A STORY OR TWO MORE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!!!!
Even though it’s been years, I’d love a few more stories
@@jigginwithg5595 Had a lady come into the store and spin a long tale about needing a gun for home defense She bought a H&R 32 revolver (we sold them used for $71 with a box of ammo) had to show her how to load it, She left. Turns out she was supposed to be at work, but instead went home to catch her BF with his his girlfirend. She burst into the bedroom screaming and emptied the gun...without hitting either of them. The other girl began fighting with her while the BF dove out the window. this was a bad idea, because they were on the second floor! He did more damage from the fall than the gun would have, go figure
@@brucerobert227 well dang!! That’s a good one right there!!
I’d love too hear some
I'am a retired police firearms instructor from S. C.
I also worked at a gun shop..
The gun that ended up in our evidence locker as well as other departments evidence lockers in my area was the Hi-Point Model C.
Side note: When I worked at the gun shop a group of homies(Black guys) would come in and ask to see a "Glock" so I would show them a Glock.
Of course they would turn it sideways in the traditional Homie hold position..
Then they would say,Yes That's the Jones .Then they would look at the price,And their eyes would get big,Then they would say No,no do you have a "Heavy Glock", At this point I had no idea what a Heavy Glock was ..So one would scan the case,See the Hi-Point Model C,($179.00) And there that one ....
Then my boss bought some Chi-Com's 🇨🇳 AK's(semiautomatic)when they were dealer $269.00 wood stock and $279.00 folder. He decided to gold plate(not real)one of the folders.We kept it on a rack behind the counter as soon as you came in so it would catch your eye .
Our customers were of every race,mostly hunters and collectors. They would not even give it a look .But when the homies came it .It was like a bug light to bugs .They went crazy .LOL...
They would get it,Turn it sideways,And say They that's Chopper..Look at the price and hand it back .You know we couldn't sell that thing,Ended up trading it to another dealer at a show....
So basically... If a crime is committed with a gun, and they find that gun, it goes to a police evidence locker?
Yes is that not obvious?
***** Just checking. Sorry
Probably. All evidence goes to the evidence locker. If a gun is stolen, it is part of the evidence. If a gun is the instrumentality of a crime (used to commit the crime) it is evidence.
if a gun is found loose with no crime to accompany, usually the police will take it to keep it safe. Usually they will test the arm to see if it matches any arms - fired bullets - used in crimes; or to see if the gun were stolen.
Yes. Until the trial and when ballistic tests are done. When the trial is over usually the gun (ie the evidence) can be disposed of. It’s either returned to the owner, destroyed, or sold back to a firearms dealer (if its in good shape).
The 'return' part depends on local politics. An anti-gun city will not probably return anything.
There's an old joke about Hi-Points:
Wherever a Hi-Point is found, a baggie of crack is never far away...
Well done on a good presentation, I particularly enjoy your informality and genuine approach to the customer.
but here in australia .. if someone breaks into your house and you hurt them you are up for assult charges or murder charges depending on what happens... so .. yeah
Not in Texas brudda. Someone breaks in your house, you mow em down, even if they are on the way out.
What does the government expect you to do if someone breaks in?
RobboNSW USA same thing idc tho you rob me I'll do life for life I'm not gonna let you steal what I worked hard to buy .
I have a cousin who is a constable in Brisbane. She says since the gun ban has gone into place her department has seen an uptick in home-made guns used by criminals. In the end that's worse, because they have no serial numbers to trace them back to the source, and most of them are so poorly made that they can easily go off accidentally, or explode when fired. She says they were better off before the ban. Yes, suicides, domestic-abuse shootings, and mass-shootings are way down, but every other kind of gun crime is on the rise.
Cant you just throw the body out so some dingos can get to them before the police get there
Saying people who own/buy these guns are criminals is like saying everybody using an AK-47 is a terrorist...
Nobody said people that owned those guns were criminals? They were just saying they are the most common guns used in crimes and found in police lockups. You should watch the video before commenting.
Demon50 Are you sure you have watched the video or understood what I meant to saying with my comment?
Of course everyone who buys AK47 is a terrorist, have you never played CS GO?
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You would have to be a criminal to buy a Hi-point!
We should all buy more High Points, support an all American company, and keep them out of the hands of criminals. One each for your car, truck, tool box, tackle box, each bathroom, kitchen, garage, suitcase, and a few hiding places. Never be without a gun!
I once met a bandito when I was about 14 in my buddies trailer park and he had a .45 cal revolver that had a real long barrel and an extended case housing for the bullets and he had 4/10 shot gun shells in that revolver. It was a nasty little gun. I think he had bird shot in it and he let me shoot it at a big oak tree down by the river:) it was awesome!
Used to see all kinds of crazy stuff when I worked for a state police HQ. The best by far was a complete, good condition, fully functional WWI era Maxim MG.
Nobody's saying guns aren't dangerous. They are. But it's a fundamental right to be able to defend yourself with a firearm, especially considering the fact that criminals will never constrain themselves to the law when it comes to procuring firearms. That's why they should be treated with the utmost respect, and be readily available only to law-abiding citizens. The U.S. constitution says that American people's right to bear arms shall not be infringed. So quit your bitching about it, because it's entirely useless to do so, unless you want to utilize despotism and total ignorance of the U.S.'s founding documents to keep the general population from getting guns.Nobody's forcing you to live in America.
Two schools of thought...
A) Criminals tend to go with the cheapest piece of shit firearm they can get their hands on.
B) Any Decent gun finds its way OUT of the Evidence Locker and into the collection of the Officers.
the more crazy weapon i see in a police locker evidence is a m-72 law(rocket luncher)
That is one dangerous meal.
*police evidence locker
Samuel Macero shit happens
Lemme guess, drug raid?
Samuel Macero try a pound and a half of Thermite.
That's not a Sigma, that's an SDVE. Yes, they are related, but the SDVE is a much better gun. Zero malfunctions through 650 rounds. It has a better, more natural grip angle compared to a Glock. The trigger isn't as light as a Glock, but its crisp. YankeeMarshal says he likes the SDVE better than a Glock, and I agree. I have a Glock 19 and an SD40VE...I like the SDVE better. I guess it's a poor mans Glock, but I'm not poor..I'm a gun collector. It is a great gun!
Wow I guess there's an ego attachment there!
I was able to purchase my SD 9mm VE for under $300 from Academy. I am a Glock owner and was considering a Glock 19. I shot a friends Smith and noticed how similar it was to the Glock. I've added a little grip tape a $25 trigger kit and Bo Wallace at XS sights is currently attempting to fit it with a set of big dot sights for me. There is nothing inferior about this Smith Pistol. Good Call!
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IronMike212 Sorry, not smart enough to know what your asking.
!00% correct, but you have to understand even though he says he likes the SD9VE, he is a 100% glock fanboy and will ever admit to it being a equal or better gun, which it is in my opinion. I have owned both and I prefer the grip of the smith any day of the week, it is just as reliable and accurate as the glock as well.
the war in chiraq, rondo had a rocket launcher, put it on the list
lmfao
Bee Kay this is America weapons locker
Strong Shark Chiraq is slang for Chicago.
Jack Sin tf u talkin about
lmao somebody's mad
I remember when 100 bucks would get you an sks and a box of shells, now days you can barely touch that gun for less than 350.