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A "shredding machine". It uses hydraulics (basically a large bottle-jack type ram) and high strength (I'm guessing carbide or something?) blocks that press together in a scissor effect to cut the gun up. Feed it in a half inch at a time and in a few minutes you have a pile of little chunks that no one would even recognise as having been a gun.

I don't know if local departments still destroy them this way or not. The ATF does thousands at a time by dropping them into a huge shredding machine with front end loaders.

Captain Matt wrote: I bet the plan from the beginning was to steal his guns. I also bet this was not the first time they used threats and extortion to steal things.

If that is truly the case, it will be much easier to expose than if it's an overzealous agency and prosecutor.

In the department I worked in, evidence and property was so tightly controlled this could not happen without a large conspiracy between the arresting officer, his supervisor, and the property officer, at a minimum. Property and evidence were kept with a strict document trail, and after case disposition they had to be either returned to original owner, destroyed, or auctioned off by court order. Nothing was allowed to be taken by officers and law enforcement personnel were strictly banned from any resulting auctions. All weapons were always destroyed if not returned to original owners.

That was back in 1987-1995. I doubt there are many departments with less restrictive rules than that today.

I saw some mighty nice guns get ground into dime size pieces over the years.