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guys they just didnt have room in the freezer
The agents also talked to two men nearby who told them they had seen the dumpster full of weapons several times before.
One of the men said he had seen a store employee cutting the guns outside the store several days a week and that he told the employee he wanted them, not to shoot, but "to hang the firearms on his wall," according to the search warrant request. He was allowed to take two uncut guns and two magazines for them.

That ATF agent must have did a double take when a random guy just standing around said he had one of those guns at home. >

That's just the guy still lurking around several days later when the ATF showed up.  And who decided to be honest with them.
Theres no way to know how many other guns found new homes. >

Hmmm, so having more guns in society does make it easier for criminals to get guns >

People really think criminals are out there just using magic to make guns appear >

They only buy them at the evil person gun store and only if they promise to do evil with them. >

It’s part of the referral discount program. >

Even if he had cut them all the way through, that seems like a lot of perfectly fine steel to not be recycling. >

I cleaned out a datacenter last summer, 24 racks that used to hold HP rackmount servers. The servers were e-wasted, but the racks, the rails, and the fixtures were left behind. [No copper, for those wondering].
We loaded the racks and rails into a UHaul truck, brought them to the local recycler - who told us he wouldn't take it. Steel wasn't worth it. Drove it to the next place, got the same answer. Third place said they'd take it for disposal, but wouldn't pay anything since the value would barely cover the cost. We were just happy to get it offloaded at that point.
So yeah, even if you have a lot of steel, it's hit or miss on recycling, as places would rather deal with copper, aluminum, and other valuable metals. >

People will buy those racks if you put them on Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace. You lost out on some money. >

Considering the value of the time for whoever has to set up and manage that transaction, plus storage cost if that’s factor, it’s likely they didn’t miss out on any money, net. >

Would have been less money spent when compared to renting a uhaul and spending hours driving around to scrap yards. >

Possible. People on craigslist and FB tend to be flakes when it comes to buying stuff though. >

Either people flake or they'll try barter instead of paying cash. Apparently, people think Beats by Dre are a valid form of currency in my city >

Tried to sell a car on Craigslist and one offer I got was to swap for a kayak. >

You can find guns in the dumpsters in Borderlands >

"I don't care if there are homeless people that need them, these guns are expired and should be thrown away. If you don't throw them away, you're fired.' >

If someone eats these guns and gets sick we could get sued >

That's just a rumor, there's no evidence of anyone ever suing after getting sick from eating a free gun. Pretty sure there are even "Good Samaritan" laws to protect people who donate gun-food to charities. >

Bro lots of people die after eating their guns. >

Name one >

Ernest Hemingway. >

Kurt Cobain >

My father >

Once you open the packaging, you have to use them or they go bad >

Don't forget to refrigerate them or they go bad faster. >

I literally assumed this was an employee theft gone wrong from the title, but it turns out he just dumped 240 shotguns in a dumpster because that was easier than disposing of them in a safe way. No shit somebody found that weird and called authorities. 
Heck, it could have been three hundred computers and the people picking up the trash would still have questions, a ridiculous number of guns is just clueless. >

It would also be a good way to get guns to people under the table. "Hey buddy, you know that gun you were talking about? Check the back dumpster before 8am" >

From what I can see these guns are all the same very low quality and cheaply made garbage shotgun. Obviously it is not safe to dispose of them this way but I doubt he’s doing it to sneak them under the table to someone, would be more realistic to just give them away if you are so poorly supervised or care so little as the owner that you can get away with this. >

Presumably the issue is transfer to someone who is not allowed to own a gun, not profit >

What I meant is to just give them away under the table instead of trying to do it this way >

Not just a couple, but about 250 rifles and shotguns. >

If it’s not a shady drop off or sale, who tf disposes of used rifles like that >

You can chuck them in the trash. But you have to cut it into three pieces first >

If they're defective, shouldn't the manufacturer have a hand in getting them returned/properly disposed of? >

Cheap Turkish guns, so probably can’t send them back. >

Are the Turkish single shot break-actions still shit quality? Were they able to mess up even the simplest of firearms? They kind of look like a fun slug thrower. >

I think those are ok-ish. The guns in question are the terrible bullpup tactical shotguns they've been cranking out recently. >

I laugh at those. I can only imagine them being a bang/jam frustration piece of shit. >

My local store has some semi auto tube feed Turkish shotguns for 150$ new. Even those aren’t selling lol. >

The ATA Turkish shotgun ETRO the black/tan tactical is selling like hot cakes around my area. I've played around with one and after about 100 shells it seemed fine maybe it was just a golden egg and most are lemons? >

If I’m going for a cheaper pump, Stoger pump, mossberg 500, benelli pump. Around 400 down to 275 I’ve seen. >

The lids being back so close to the building is telling. Lazy people who constantly leave the lids open where they'll rest on something etc and could cause a problem get their dumpsters set back down like this. At least by me and other front load drivers I know.
I would have seen them most likely in my hopper camera but no way to know if they were or weren't cut right. At the transfer station there is a loader also, plus when I dump. Someone is going go have access to pulling the pack apart to look at it.
Even if it goes straight to the landfill.
But it's only 4 yards, could easily be scooped up and loaded into the semi trailer without anyone noticing or caring.
Point is, this guy has a bad habit of not closing his dumpster lids and now here he is. >

The frame shop I was at had a dumpster like this. We had it off in the corner. Wouldn't be able to tell if the driver of the truck changed every Wed but it wasn't up to us where the dumpster was left, that decision was made by whoever operated the vehicle. When the lids were opened, they rested along the fence. Again, this wasn't somethjng we did but how the dumpster was left by whoever emptied it with the truck.
With what you are saying... The dumpster is too close to the building, when they are open the lid, it rests on the building.
You said it's telling but... No shop owner is physically moving the dumpster closer, wouldn't thay be the truck drivers fault? >

What you're saying doesn't make sense unless the driver got out and opened the lids each time... no one is going to do this.
So when lids are left up and along a fence here is what happens. As the dumpster is lifted up, the lids fall back behind the dumpster as seen in the news picture. With a 4 yard like this you'd have to tip the can WAY to far or bang it a few times to get the lids to flip back over into their normal position. 6's and 8's they flop back down due to the size of lids, dumpster, etc. But not on a 4 like this. 
What I'm saying is this place leaves the lids open and resting against that fence or wall or whatever combo it is. When I pick it up, it's coming back down with the lids behind it if the lids were up unless a lid snagged something, like part of a fence, and a lid or both gets knocked down while it's being lifted. Now that's a problem because it can, and sometimes does, damage things like fences. That's why the dumpster is set back down with the lids behind it purposely. 
It could be placed that close for a lot of reasons. 1 would be to accommodate the truck's size in the parking lot. The most likely reason why is If you look it's sitting right on the edge of the concrete area right off the assault. Even an empty dumpster is going to put gouges in the asphalt during the summer due to asphalt getting softer during the heat. This is the smart place to put that dumpster.
It's not the drivers fault in fact the driver is doing the smart thing for minimal damage. To fences and asphalt. 
I pick up close cans like this with the tip of my forks and drive back few feet. The forks are longer then the length of the 4 yard dumpster and it looks like a brick wall is behind it. It's extremely easy to put holes with the forks into bricks and not notice the feeling just see the results. >

They must have been past their expiration date. >

As an avid dumpster diver, who for no reason other than saying I have them, found a dumpster with 250+ display cables covers in chili beans. I took the time to clean each one, test and roll them up nicely. Now, if I was there and found 250+ guns in a dumpster. You would have never know about it. There would have been no pictures. There would have been no evidence that they ever existed other than some dude would now have an extremely well cleaned dumpster. Not to mention that dumpster diving, unless otherwise stated on the dumpster itself, is legal in all 50 states. >

If I found a dumpster full of guns, I wouldn't become an arms trafficker who illegally sold guns. I have no idea why you'd openly admit this. >

Sell them? I'd create the game of thrones chair with all them!  There'd be more than enough! >

Tbh, probably the best way to use those shitty shotguns >

Let's hope any criminals and children they armed feel the same as way.
Oh and to be clear, I mean "armed by putting functional firearms in an easily accessible dumpster" and not the usual ways that legal gun owners arm criminals and children like "leaving a handgun in your glovebox" or "securing your AR-15 with nothing more than  threats of domestic violence".
Of course, they could have just walked into the store too. It's not like gun stores don't routinely sell weapons to criminals by who haven't been caught yet, friends of criminals who have been caught and teenage domestic terrorists who have just finished the first draft of their 4chan post. >

What a weird thing to say to a comment about making a chair out of terrible guns. >

Functional, illegally acquired weapons. Your opinions about their quality or your stupid plans for them won't change that. >

Illegally disposed of, not illegally acquired. >

I guess they don't have a gun buyback program in this area. >

Serious. This is the $ answer. >

Tinker is about to get the new B21 Raiders. Maybe a couple of those end up in a dumpster/s.I know some guys in Ukraine who could use them. >

Shoud've planted them in the ground so they could grow into gun trees. >

They should also investigate all the food that’s wasted every damned day in a country where some kids go to bed hungry. >

So you can go dumpster diving for guns in the US? Hrm. >

In Red states yes.  And along with our abortion bans, you can probably get a baby or two as well. >

Especially on prom night. >

✨Prom Night Dumpster Baby✨ >

Calling that for my next band name >

This is going to be a meme forever >

I look forward to stores offering "Dumpster Sales". >

Oklahoma, never change. >

The Great State of >

"OUR PRICES ARE INSANE!!" Come to Midwest city gun store, the home of the "GUN DUMPSTER"! 
Give the guy a break. Marketing ain't easy.
Edit: this was a joke, then I saw it was from Oklahoma... I'm guessing these were just the extras. >

Next time, please contact the second harvest weapons foundation, I’m gonna grandmother that under that other EIN. >

Pretty sure there’s a GTA mission like this >

They only stay fresh for 2 weeks then you gotta chuck'em. >

Those are shotguns not rifles. They are made by Radikal which is basically a shell company.
A handful of crappy Turkish manufacturers churn out garbage under various names which they keep changing along with the cosmetics of their garbage products.
No gun store in their right mind would order hundreds of these. He probably gave up trying to sell them after the first dozen angry customers demanded refunds.
He contacted the ATF for instructions on how to destroy them but someone, the aft employee, the owner, or the kid who was cutting them up, misunderstood the instructions for how to destroy them.
The chop saw that would be used would easily cut through the aluminum body of the gun but inside the body is the gun’s bolt which is a couple pound chunk of hardened steel which a chop saw isn’t going to do much more than scratch.
So the kid cuts into the gun where he was told but the bolts weren’t removed so it only cuts into the gun rather than all the way through. The guns were barely functional before being cut. The ATF agents who came along only needs to pry the gun open and manage to get it to fire a single shot to say that it’s still a “functional” gun.
The kid doing the cutting was probably told “these don’t work, they aren’t guns anymore” so he wouldn’t have realized that the guy wanting “wall hangers” wanting uncut guns wasn’t kosher.
As for why not return the guns? Well Shipping them back would take months of paperwork and cost as much as the shop paid for them in the first place. Also these manufacturers in turkey do not service their products. You can’t even get spare parts let alone make returns.
Whether the shop owner was eating the whole cost, getting some rebate upon proof of the guns destruction, or making an insurance claim I’m sure this was already a huge fiasco for him even before the ATF got involved.
Think about it logically. If you went to a gun shop and the guns hanging on the wall had been cut half way through in three places would you buy one? Or would you consider the gun totally ruined?
The confusion is because the ATF doesn’t even require cutting all the way through. In lieu of melting/crushing/shredding they allow cutting with an oxy acetylene torch which needs to go through the side wall but not all the way through. Th cut needs to remove 1/4” of material which a chop saw isn’t going to accomplish.
Even if the guns had been chopped all the way through with a saw the ATF would still disapprove since in theory they could be welded back together and the ATF doesn’t care if the gun is rended incapable of functioning, only incapable of being repaired counts.
A manufacturer might be more familiar with these rules but it’s not something a shop owner would know about. And it is pretty confusing.
Realistically it would have cost way way more to get someone to cut the guns up with a torch compared with having a teenager go at them with a chop saw.
If you’ve already lost a ton of money on the deal and the ATF tells you to cut part way through in three places but they don’t clearly explain why they said to use a torch then saving a few thousand dollars by cutting them up with a saw would seem perfectly logical.
The cuts are 1/8” wide vs 1/4” wide, if you didn’t know, would that seem like a big deal? >

Can the hard-to-cut bits not be removed before sawing the rest? I don’t know.
Come to think of it, do the local police not have somewhere where folks can drop off unwanted weapons for destruction?
Disclaimer: Not American. >

Thank you very much for that explanation! >

So sad that stores like this throw out their product at the end of the day instead of donating it to homeless shelters. >

It’s like the penny tray? Need a gun? Take a gun.