The Department of Defense is responsible for millions of guns, from sniper rifles to pistols. Inevitably, at some point
the Pentagon no longer wants them. What happens to the weapons then?

They're fed to Captain Crunch, a giant crusher that turns military firearms into scrap metal.

Captain Crunch was put into operation in August 1993 as an efficient way to destroy unwanted firearms. Located at
Anniston Army Depot in Alabama and operated by the Defense Logistics Agency, the Captain is an enormous
shredder using intertwined blades that turns weapons made of wood, steel, aluminum and plastic into large pieces
of junk.

Guns are fed onto a conveyor belt, which then dumps them into The Captain's gnashing maw. What's left is cut up
with blowtorches to make sure it cannot be used to assemble a firearm and turned into scrap. The part with the serial
number—the firearm's receiver—must be totally obliterated for the gun to be officially considered destroyed. The
scrap in turn is sold to civilian buyers, which by 2007 was generating $12 million a year in sales.

Up to 2,500 weapons a day can be scrapped by Captain Crunch. Within just six months of commencing operation,
Captain Crunch had ground up 300,000 firearms, including 110,000 M1911A1 semiautomatic pistols, 132,000 rifles,
and 20,000 M3 "grease gun" submachine guns. The average cost of destroying each weapon was a mere $3.26.
By 1995, the total was up to 600,000 guns.

Fox News reports that Captain Crunch has destroyed one million firearms, a number it could have achieved after
just its third year of operation. The Captain is a hungry beast.

Wonder if all of those guys have "secret" clearance. I think someone smart enough could "fudge" the records and create a weapon piece by peace.

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