Do guns wear out? Do they end up in landfill? You always hear about guns being sold, but never about what happens to them at the end of their useful life.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Depends on how it was disposed of. … and how well it’d maintained.

    There’s plenty of 1-200 year old firearms that still work; and even as far back as the old west, firearms were meant to be kept up with replacement parts.

    Now, that said there’s plenty of programs where you can turn in a firearm, no questions asked, and those are supposed to get destroyed. In the US, they’re frequently run by city cops to get guns off the street.

    If you do find a firearm… call the cops. Nobody just “looses” a firearm. And, ah, don’t touch it. You don’t want your finger prints anywhere near it when they do get there. (Cops are dicks… and that gun probably has a body on it.)

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      11 months ago

      Sounds boring.

      More fun: pop it in the bag of someone who’s about to go to the airport. Maybe smear some ketchup on it.

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        11 months ago

        Ketchup won’t work, the color and texture are off. I bet if you ask nicely you can get some from your nearest meat shop if you tell them you want to make blood sausage. You’ll have to let the blood warm up before it’ll clot and dry on there though.

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        11 months ago

        Years ago a co-worker/friend thought it funny to make a thin metal outline of a gun and place this metal in a book of another co-worker headed to the airport, friends like this who needs enemies?

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          11 months ago

          What if you made one of those art piece style things that cast a specific shadow from one direction but look like a pile of stuff when looked directly.