I pulled it from TFB, the whole article is here…
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Corey,
I’ve seen many pieces of gear, equipment and more get mutilated - esp in the aircraft world.
Would it be beneficial to Hatchers if I donate some 20 round mags? I’ll never use them, they are US army issue so they may not be up to civilian standards.
Let me know.
We don’t currently have storage for stuff like that. But, I wouldn’t be surprised if others wanted them though.
Roger that Nick
I have stock issue 30 round mags ( and have no need for the 20 round ones) that have never failed either in the combat zone or on a range in Texas. They aren’t as pretty and “cool” as the ones from Magpull though.
It’s probably cheaper/easier to just scrap them, due to all the regulations and political pressure. Though to be fair, I wouldn’t buy a rifle from the military, the rifling would probably be almost non-existent.
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The issue, at least in the Army, is not letting anything related to a firearm go unaccounted for. They destroy everything.
I spent some time in Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003. We confiscated enemy arms by the ton. Our EOD teams piled them as high as they could get them with dozers and cranes on top of a lot of C4. Then we evacuated the place and the EOD team detonated the pile. All of the guns, rocket launchers etc were consumed in the explosion. There was a huge smoking hole in the ground, too. Then the dozers just pushed sand back into the hole.
This happened numerous times. It was much easier to explode the ordinance than to saw it or grind it, but oh what a waste of firearms and munitions.
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I bet it was fun to watch from a distance.
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On my deployment to Bosnia (99-00)- it was similar - except the frost heaves would uncover anti tank (typically) mines in fields and the local farmers would dig them up and bring them to one of our air base gates on his horse or donkey powered cart. EOD would take it from there.
Good times!