Thread: Cops refuse historical vandalism.

From the UK Daily Mail, "January 2st 2018". Woman handed in a StGw-44 and the cops declined to buy it off her but had her sell it off properly to avoid its destruction.

"A World War II assault rifle that belonged to an SS officer was handed in to a gun buy-back organised by police in Connecticut.

The rare find, which is worth up to $40,000, would have been sent home by an American soldier who had taken it from a prisoner of war or a German he had killed.

Officer Lewis Crabtree, of the Hartford Police Dept, said: 'The chance to see a piece of history - this - is absolutely unbelievable.'"


Officers stunned when woman drops off $40,000 WWII German rifle to be destroyed in police buy-back program | Daily Mail Online