Benchmade cuts up guns now?

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Nice job. I just bought my first Benchmade and first "expensive knife", a Custom Shop Mini Grip. Unless there's a believable explanation there won't be any more. There's no reason to destroy functional firearms except politics and personal beliefs. PDs should sell them to legal citizens to raise funds. Someone at Benchmade is anti-gun, there's no other explanation. Maybe the owner, maybe an employee authorized this without owner's knowledge.

I've notice since being on BF the similarities in how guys talk about their EDC rotation and discussions about SD knives and identical discussions on gun forums. Total hypocrisy for a company that makes all sorts of murdery tactical black scary knives to destroy any gun.
 
Does benchmade have a rep here? Would like to hear an official response before abandoning the company.
But, there are many knife companies out there, so losing benchmade is not a big deal.
 
Saw elsewhere that their political donations seem to coincide with these actions.

You can look that up yourself. I haven't attempted to verify.
 
My guess is the destruction is related to guns used in crimes that used to be sold by law enforcement only to have them coming back as guns used to commit more crimes. Regardless of intent by BM, without context past/current/future customers will see the thank you posting from the range of their own lens (Simple act<----->Anti 2A). Personally it doesn't bother me as my lens says simple act. If it was destroying guns from a firearm turn-in, an Anti 2A event in itself, I would be very very bothered.

Quote from Jan18 on Portland laws regarding firearms used in the commission of a crime.

Oregon law says police can sell, keep or destroy forfeited firearms, but prosecutors in Portland make sure they never return to the streets.

"My office has taken the position that firearms connected to a crime should be destroyed," said Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Lowe.​
 
It does strike me as peculiar that they need to cut them up and catch it on video for a “photo-op” so to speak. Municipalities around me dispose of condemned firearms at a metal recycler where they get melted down. The scrap yard doesn’t care one bit about them being cut up. It all melts the same. The whole act of cutting them up is bizarre.
 
ndmiller said:
My guess is the destruction is related to guns used in crimes that used to be sold by law enforcement only to have them coming back as guns used to commit more crimes. Regardless of intent by BM, without context past/current/future customers will see the thank you posting from the range of their own lens (Simple act<----->Anti 2A). Personally it doesn't bother me as my lens says simple act. If it was destroying guns from a firearm turn-in, an Anti 2A event in itself, I would be very very bothered.

Quote from Jan18 on Portland laws regarding firearms used in the commission of a crime.

Oregon law says police can sell, keep or destroy forfeited firearms, but prosecutors in Portland make sure they never return to the streets.

"My office has taken the position that firearms connected to a crime should be destroyed," said Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Jeffrey Lowe.​
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All the more reason I'm holding out for more info.
I agree it's a simple act provided they were involved in a crime or deemed illegal (serial numbers removed or illegally modified).
However I'll be more than very bothered if these are turn in's. I'm a gun guy and I'm Really trying to get the facts first. Very disappointing.
 
MattWRog said:
It does strike me as peculiar that they need to cut them up and catch it on video for a “photo-op” so to speak. Municipalities around me dispose of condemned firearms at a metal recycler where they get melted down. The scrap yard doesn’t care one bit about them being cut up. It all melts the same. The whole act of cutting them up is bizarre.
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Don't try to out-think a social media person. The reality is that no one really knows whats going on when it comes to social media marketing. Someone at the PD thought it was a good idea, probably something to do with community involvement. Sometimes these things just go wrong.
 
ndmiller said:
My guess is the destruction is related to guns used in crimes that used to be sold by law enforcement only to have them coming back as guns used to commit more crimes.
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How likely is it that a confiscated gun sold by a Police Department to a citizen legally allowed to own it would end up being used in a crime again?? Pretty much ZERO. Really think bad guys buy guns from PDs or good guys who bought a gun from a PD would sell it to a questionable person? A gun bought from a PD? Not plausible.

Applicable link: http://oredfund.supgv.org/yearroundturnin

"Since 1994, Ceasefire has hosted an Annual Gun Turn-In, with locations in ten communities in the state of Oregon. In that time, 7,524 firearms have been collected and destroyed. (We were not able to host a turn-in in 2009 due to lack of funds.) The annual turn-ins have been held on just one or two days of the year. The Year-Round Gun Turn-In addresses the need for gun owners to rid their homes of one or more firearms at any time."
 
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