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You can find guns in the dumpsters in Borderlands
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.