So, what was this guy thinking?

I just got back from the scrapyard. Coming back across the scale to get a light weight, I noticed a guy walking from a car into the office, carrying a small case, kinda like something that would contain a small power tool. By the time I got off the scale and walked into the office, all I caught was the tail end of the conversation.

"So you not interested in buying them then?"



"Nope. Sorry."

After he left, I asked the cashier what he was selling.

"Hot guns."

Now, why would somebody holding stolen firearms be trying to peddle them to a scrapyard? :confused:

I don't have the answer, but I thought it'd be interesting to hear your theories...

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The "hot guns" seller has to be the dumbest of the dumb.

Anyone with a clue knows where to get the best price selling "hot guns" and it is not a scrap yard. They also know what will happen to them if the "hot guns" get traced back to them after being used in a crime.

I am sure that the scrap yard didn't want to get involved, but they should have bought the guns for scrap value to get them off the streets and called the cops to get the seller of the streets.

Alot of scrap yards around here have people that work for them that will buy anything they might can make money on including hot guns

I think you hit the nail on the head, or close to it. It seems to me that the scrap industry might have a perception attached to it that it will buy stolen property, either knowingly, or simply acting dumb about it. How many threads on here right now do we have discussing law enforcement and how they are interacting with scrappers? Unfortuately, I think some of that suspicion is justified, and I was kind of glad to find that the yard I deal with most often wanted no parts of it.

The "hot guns" seller has to be the dumbest of the dumb.

They also know what will happen to them if the "hot guns" get traced back to them after being used in a crime.

Exactly.

I asked the girl at the window if they didn't have video surveillance. "Yeah. He was on camera about 17 different times from when he came in the gate." Now, I don't know whether they called the cops or not, but you'd think somebody trying to unload something as potentially problematic as hot guns would take that into consideration...

Ditto. Not to mention the ressurection of old threads.