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Originally Posted by aigel
It may be challenging to get rid of the murder weapon in a state that keeps a record? If you are a murder suspect with a gun in the right caliber registered to your name, cops will want to know what happened to the gun. Is this why he threw out the barrel? Why the slide though? It sure would have been better to throw it in the lake and claim you lost it and forgot to report. Or replace the barrel in a non-traceable way. Not all guns have serialized barrels, do they?
I am with Jeff on how they will convict him if they can't link his gun to the murder 100%? Do they have more physical evidence such as powder residue in the seats? Is that how they know he shot out the rear window? The only way I can see him pull off the shot out back is by putting the truck in park, unbuckle and then moving into a prone position on the center console to open fire.
We still don't know if it was a two shot only deal? The article said one shot in head and one in neck.
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in the US you can simply get a new barrel, new extractor, even a new slide.. you replace all the parts that leave a mark, with new bits bought at Brownells or any gunshop.
Obviously if it was used in a crime , you'de probably be best t get somebody else to buy those parts for you..
In europe it's a lot more difficult since most parts here are regulated.. especially barrels.. in UK it's even stricter, for instance, the smallest parts even are considered regulated..
Either way, getting rid is not difficult.. And most guns aren't registered anyway.
Just put an axle grinder to it, small as possible
chuck em out inside your empty coke and beer cans ..done.
a gun not found is a gun not matched.
and the story about how a registred gun is no longer in your posession : let your lawyer do the talking.. do not say a word