The Guns Were Said to Be Destroyed. Instead, They Were Reborn.
When Flint, Michigan, announced in September that 68 assault weapons collected in a gun buyback would be incinerated, the city cited its policy of never reselling firearms. “Gun violence continues to cause enormous grief and trauma,” Mayor Sheldon Neeley said. “I will not allow our city government to profit from our community’s pain by reselling weapons that can be turned against Flint residents.” But Flint’s guns were not going to be melted down. Instead, they made their way to a private compan