{"id":30829,"date":"2023-12-10T16:57:13","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=30829"},"modified":"2023-12-10T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T21:57:44","slug":"the-guns-were-said-to-be-destroyed-instead-they-were-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=30829","title":{"rendered":"The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/6575250200a26.image_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"241\" height=\"161\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms.&#8221;Gun violence continues to<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nytlicensing.com\/stories\/D4TYyrG7\">The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;But Flint\u2019s guns were not going to be melted down. <strong><em>Instead, they made their way to a private company that has collected millions of dollars taking firearms from police agencies<\/em><\/strong>, destroying a single piece of each weapon stamped with the serial number and selling the rest as nearly complete gun kits. Buyers online can easily replace what\u2019s missing and reconstitute the weapon.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/reaction-star-trek-double-facepalm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"750\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/reaction-star-trek-double-facepalm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14987\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/reaction-star-trek-double-facepalm.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/reaction-star-trek-double-facepalm-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/reaction-star-trek-double-facepalm-675x540.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[964,40,968,57],"class_list":["post-30829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-facepalm","tag-guns","tag-michigan","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30833,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30829\/revisions\/30833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}