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Brickbats

Brickbat: A Little Rusty

Charles Oliver | 8.30.2022 4:00 AM

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Toronto police proudly tweeted an image of a handgun they recently seized. But Twitter users found the tweet both baffling and amusing, since the gun was covered with what appeared to be rust and sediment as if it had been on the bottom of a lake for several years.

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Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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