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ocgiii — 11 years ago(August 26, 2014 03:46 PM)

do they have to keep buying more and more guns for their jobs? Are they losing them after each heist?

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psedge — 11 years ago(October 13, 2014 08:05 PM)

THAT is a great question! I wondered the same thing

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magwell-1 — 11 years ago(October 24, 2014 04:25 AM)

I think it probably has to do with making their guns difficult to trace.

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jimprideaux — 10 years ago(November 28, 2015 01:25 PM)

Ballistic analysis of bullets could trace them to the guns that fired them. However if the guns were not fired they would not be traceable. No need to ditch an unfired gun.

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Eddie_Fingers — 11 years ago(November 15, 2014 02:22 PM)

Every criminal knows you never use the same gun twice even if you didn't fire it. New job, new gun. That's the rule.

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Eldo7777 — 11 years ago(November 16, 2014 10:06 AM)

They want "clean"[untraceable to themselves] guns that they can throw away after the job
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Fong-3 — 11 years ago(November 17, 2014 09:06 AM)

Scalise (Alex Rocco) explains it in the scene at the trailer. They dump the guns in the river after each heist.

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JoeCorrao — 11 years ago(March 15, 2015 10:02 PM)

you dump the guns and stat fresh
~I see a little silhouette of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.

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JoeCorrao — 10 years ago(July 29, 2015 12:09 PM)

I think it is common practice to dump guns (in real life) after a job.
~I see a little silhouette of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.

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JoeCorrao — 10 years ago(August 03, 2015 09:31 AM)

Are we talking of personal experience?
~I see a little silhouette of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.

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whatsthisnow — 9 years ago(September 14, 2016 04:13 AM)

Police forensics can link bullets that have been fired to not only types of guns, but the individual gun used. Witnesses can describe what guns were used, and cameras can record them (if there are any). There are doubtless many other reasons why you would not use the same firearm to commit more than one crime.

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emncaity — 9 years ago(January 29, 2017 09:48 PM)

Don't have time to read through the whole thread, but in case somebody hasn't said so already, it's a combination of factors, but one primary factor is that untraceable guns are typically dumped after a crime where they're used at all.