NYPD Sending Thousands of Guns Out of State to be Melted Down This Week

By Dean Meminger 

The NYPD has confiscated thousands of guns across the five boroughs and it wants to make sure those weapons don't get back on city streets. NY1 Criminal Justice Reporter Dean Meminger has an exclusive report about the police department's plans for those guns.

Thousands of guns, seized by the NYPD, are headed for the scrap heap.

"The NYPD works very had in getting these guns off the street and we are going to keep them off the street. And by destroying them there is no chance they will every find their way back out into the street, into the public," says Stephen Davis, the NYPD's deputy commissioner for public information. 

NY1 has learned that 3,000 thousand illegal guns seized by the NYPD or surrendered in gun byback programs will be shipped to an out-of-state facility this week, placed in a furnace and melted at high temperatures. 

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Source: NY1 (via The Empire Report)