Colorado Springs police may sell confiscated firearms back to dealers

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

This'll go over like a fart in church.
How long before budget-strangled states like Cali and Illinois start doing this?

Full story here: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-gun-sales23-2009aug23,0,4831409.story

Reporting from Colorado Springs, Colo. - This conservative city is taking an unusual, some might say extreme, step to try to stem its fiscal woes: It's entering the gun business.

The Colorado Springs City Council is expected in coming weeks to approve the final details of a program that would allow the Police Department to sell confiscated firearms to federally licensed gun dealers. Police have already stopped melting down the hundreds of guns they collect from crime scenes, drug houses or civilians who don't need them anymore.

The sales are projected to bring in about $10,000 a year, only a slight dent for a city that faced a deficit of one-quarter its $200-million annual budget this year. But it still helps, said Vice Mayor Larry Small, who proposed the gun sales.

"Every penny counts," Small said.

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[slackmaster]

1. That makes sense - Selling them to licensed gun dealers, who must check them into their inventory

Assures that there will be a background check on every person the dealers sell them to.

[Vickers]

2. I don't see a problem with it.

:shrug:

At least they will be a traceable asset now.

[Tim01]

3. It would be very much like a newly manufactured gun. No problem. nt

[Mugu]

4. Selling them is what many departments used to do before it became unPC.

[doc03]

5. Sounds like a good deal to me

it saves the taxpayers money. I work in a steel mill and every few months the local police or FBI bring firearms in to melt down, seems like a waste, why not sell them. They also bring tons of marijuana for us to burn, that is a crime in my opinion.

[Israfel4]

6. I'd like to see a list of what they have :D n/t

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9. A better question would be...

what's going to be left after the cops get all the good pickings?

[Joanne98]

7. Arms trafficking. Sounds like money laundering to me!

[michreject]

8. Some states

Have been doing this for years.

[Hawkeye-X]

10. Here's a hint for Colorado Springs police

Start ticketing those FotF assholes for traffic citations...

You'll be surprised on how much you'd cover the $200 million shortfall.

Hawkeye-X