The question that I have not seen asked is why are these guns being destroyed?
I may be ignorant to some reason why it is not possible, but wouldn’t the best idea be to buy back all of these weapons for use in the military?
I hear our military could use millions of guns and parts, and it would actually justify the cost of the program. It would also be a massive increase on military spending our allies have been asking for and that we are in serious need of.
Each gun requires training to use optimally, each gun requires different parts to repair it, each gun has different reliability issues. The reason any military limits the type of firearms in use is to reduce logistics cost and complexity. If you have one main battle rifle in use that’s standardized across the military, you don’t need a million training programs, you need one, you don’t need ten billion supply chains for replacement parts, you need one, and you don’t have to keep track of what soldier is trained in what guns beyind their mos.
Militaries are just logistics companies that get to kill people. Simplifying logistics then allows them to kill more people.
Civilian models contain identical parts to what is used in the military. Many weapons, regardless of manufacturer or model, use the exact same parts. Many civilian weapons can be easily converted into military counter parts.
At the very least the plan should be to retain all useful parts and weapons, while recycling or selling what can not be used directly by our military, instead of simply rounding everything up to be destroyed.