old police guns

[emtmark]

not the historical sense but the unused perhaps more affordable kind. sorry if I dragged you in here on accident. Brief search diddn't get a whole lot of awnsers thought id go right to the source. Do departments/agencies ever sell the used guns that don't get bought up/back by thier own employee's? Do guns siezed get sold or destroyed? Two reasons, one, my wifes father had a gun siezed as part of an investigation, never found out what happened to it. Two I work for AMR lol and can't afford even decent used iron at this point. Looking at the german sig p6 for around 300 is my best bet. If I knew where to look locally? I'm in the bay area perhaps I could locate a similar quality closer to home and for around the same price. Concealability is a goal as my home county is fairly leniant about ccw and i've been assaulted twice now on my way to and from work. No I don't live in the bay area just work there. Thank you all for your time Mark

[CaptMike]

Some departments do sell their used weapons on the open market. Usually they are accepted as trade ins for newer equipment. For example Davidsons firearms is a large wholesale dealer. You may see on their website from time to time, that they have some trade ins available. They probably accepted these guns as a credit to newer or better firearms. Especially right now, with the budgets the way they are, I am assuming that more departments arre more likely to trade in guns instead of just destroying them. Some departments, as a matter of policy, automatically destroy all firearms that are not purchased by the officer upon retirement. For example, LAPD will offer the firearms they carried on duty to their officers upon retirement. But if the officer does not purchase it, then it will be used in some way until no longer needed, then they will destroy the weapon. LAPD destroyes their firearms for political reasons. most of the recent previous chiefs have been very anti firearms and do not want to have one of their former firearms used in a crime.

[emtmark]

thanks ill punch up davidsons on the the ol google and see what there is

[BigDogatPlay]

The policy varies greatly from agency to agency. Currently some of the manufacturers have a very active buy back program that kicks in when they go into an agency and sell a bunch of new guns. Sig has a big pre-owned program, as one example.

[556fmj]

My agency also destroys the old work guns and confiscated guns

I've see the firearms room at the main property building and it is a shame they have to torch cut them.

[retired]

LASD does also.^

I recall going to the Property room at the old HOJJ in the early 1980s with a Crime Lab deputy while he scoured the pile of guns to be destroyed. The crime lab endeavored to keep at least one copy of every gun every made for comparison sake.

I saw what appeared to be a fairly new Thompson Subcontender that he said they already had one of. I jokingly tried to redirect his attention to another pile of guns while I retrieved it, but he just laughed and said nope.

There were sooooo many nice looking guns I would have liked to own.