Up Next - Going after Police Trade-In guns.

[Rockrivr1]

Get your police trade in guns now while you can. The next thing the news media is going after.....

About nine times a day over two decades, a gun used in a crime has been traced back to its original owner: a law enforcement agency.

A joint investigation by CBS News, The Trace, and Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting has found at least 52,000 such incidents and identified more than 140 police agencies that sell or trade in their guns, allowing dealers to then resell them.

Law enforcement agencies are selling and trading their old duty weapons — often to cut costs when upgrading. A side effect: tens of thousands of those guns have wound up in the hands of criminals.

They've been used in shootings, domestic violence incidents, and other violent crimes, according to records obtained from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and hundreds of U.S. police agencies.

Internal ATF records show at least 52,529 police guns turned up at crime scenes since 2006, the earliest year data is available from the government.

Four takeaways from our investigation into police agencies selling their guns

Firearms sold by law enforcement have turned up at crime scenes thousands of times in recent years, a CBS News Investigation found.

www.cbsnews.com

 

[icyclefar]

Falmouth, MA has already opted for destruction of all surplus firearms rather than trade in to reduce costs.

 

[eboos]

Falmouth, MA has already opted for destruction of all surplus firearms rather than trade in to reduce costs.

Why be fiscally responsible when everything is free?

 

[Grendizer138]

It’s even worse than opposing the fiscal benefit to communities, they are implying that police guns are easier to get or more killy than whatever civilians have access to.

You do not hate the media enough

 

[icyclefar]

Back in 2015 Hawaii made the news for similar surplus destruction to the tune of over half a million dollars.

 

[Masswhole]

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a PD trade in that was interesting. Still stupid, but F ‘em and better theirs than yours.

 

[Ultrarunner]

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a PD trade in that was interesting. Still stupid, but F ‘em and better theirs than yours.

Agreed, beat to heck guns that rarely can be had for 20 percent off retail. For $150, I'll bite, not $300...

 

[gerrycaruso]

So Falmouth has decided that destroying guns instead of trading them in reduces cost? I must be missing something because I don't see how.

 

[icyclefar]

So Falmouth has decided that destroying guns instead of trading them in reduces cost? I must be missing something because I don't see how.

You did miss something. They opted not to reduce cost by trading them in when purchasing replacements.

Interesting however was that they pitched it as having "no added cost" to the residents because the MA State crime lab would destroy the firearms for them "free of charge"

 

[wilson911]

So Falmouth has decided that destroying guns instead of trading them in reduces cost? I must be missing something because I don't see how.

Volume.

 

[Rockrivr1]

So Falmouth has decided that destroying guns instead of trading them in reduces cost? I must be missing something because I don't see how.

Well, melting is free don't you know.

 

[BTSDOG]

Cmon, we all kow its for the CHILDREN.........

 

[allen-1]

Gunz are bad. Only properly trained leo’s should have gunz.

 

[EJFudd]

You must admire the endless creativity and ball-busting silliness of big leftist media. Good thing for them that wholesale dishonesty in publishing of their leftist "news" is not a punishable crime.

 

[ddeck]

The definition the ATF uses for a “crime gun” is based on a request for a trace. So, the media will pull the most sensational ones, then note the number of “crime guns” so the reader conflates the two to think every trace was for a murder.

 

[Asaltweapon]

So Falmouth has decided that destroying guns instead of trading them in reduces cost? I must be missing something because I don't see how.

First grade math level helps.

 

[dgrafton]

I bet half the in-service duty guns used in shootings are held by criminals.

 

[Andy in NH]

Agreed, beat to heck guns that rarely can be had for 20 percent off retail. For $150, I'll bite, not $300...

Mostly cosmetic and with low round counts.

I recently picked up two LEO trade in Gen 3 G17s from AIM Surplus.

Gonna chop 'em to fit G19 mags and maybe have them milled for PMOs?

 

[SKumar]

The definition the ATF uses for a “crime gun” is based on a request for a trace. So, the media will pull the most sensational ones, then note the number of “crime guns” so the reader conflates the two to think every trace was for a murder.

Just like how the federal government "calculates" inflation or unemployment numbers.

 

[Uzi2]

Falmouth, MA has already opted for destruction of all surplus firearms rather than trade in to reduce costs.

As if 65 guns (the number of officers in Falmouth PD) are going to make a dent in anything.

It's all public virtue signaling, "feel good legislation" on the part of Falmouth .gov.

There's probably twice that number of guns stolen from Falmouth and surrounding homes annually.

 

[chris_1001]

Well, melting is free don't you know.

Send them to Benchmade. They will cut them up for free.

 

[bolt]

“Furnish a stuffy British accent”....

I say, Bobbies do not carry those dangerous firearms.
You Americans should have paid the stamp & tea taxes back in the 1700s.
We’d have taken jolly good care of you Blok’s.

Much legislation is feel good or incentivized legislation.
This country’s being bankrupted as was GM, GE, ETC.

 

[headednorth]

Agreed, beat to heck guns that rarely can be had for 20 percent off retail. For $150, I'll bite, not $300...

Are they really beat to heck though? Holster wear, yeah, but theyre generally border-line unfired.

 

[Varmint]

Get your police trade in guns now while you can. The next thing the news media is going after.....

Four takeaways from our investigation into police agencies selling their guns

Firearms sold by law enforcement have turned up at crime scenes thousands of times in recent years, a CBS News Investigation found.

www.cbsnews.com

If you remove the guns used in crime by police, it’s probably not that many.

I’m waiting for police trade in M4s.

 

[allen-1]

Mostly cosmetic and with low round counts.

I recently picked up two LEO trade in Gen 3 G17s from AIM Surplus.

Gonna chop 'em to fit G19 mags and maybe have them milled for PMOs?

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What are PMOs?

 

[chris_1001]

If you remove the guns used in crime by police, it’s probably not that many.

I’m waiting for police trade in M4s.

There was a department years ago selling off full auto (and transferable) Thompson’s

The St Louis Police Department Is Selling Off Its Arsenal Of Legendary Tommy Guns

St. Louis police are bidding farewell to what was once called "the deadliest weapon, pound for pound, ever devised by man."The St. Louis Metropolitan

taskandpurpose.com

 

[Grendizer138]

Send them to Benchmade. They will cut them up for free.

I greatly admire the long memory and spite!

 

[chris_1001]

The St Louis Police Department Is Selling Off Its Arsenal Of Legendary Tommy Guns

St. Louis police are bidding farewell to what was once called "the deadliest weapon, pound for pound, ever devised by man."The St. Louis Metropolitan

taskandpurpose.com

 

[Andy in NH]

What are PMOs?

Pistol Mounted Optic

 

[Dennis in MA]

Falmouth, MA has already opted for destruction of all surplus firearms rather than trade in to reduce costs.

Next they'll be Pee-cycling so they don't have to build a sewage treatment plant.

Cape Cod's 'power couple of pee-cycling' wants you to save that liquid gold

Cape Cod communities are spending millions to install sewers and upgrade wastewater treatment plants. But a growing number of people say urine diversion or "pee-cycling" deserves a closer look. The town of Falmouth is leading the way.

www.wbur.org

I recall when it was a townie town. Now it's lib-central. My life-long-democrat dad LEFT Falmouth because "it's too damned liberal there." ROFL!!!!