Police Auction Pistols?

adriel

adriel

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How/where are police used handguns sold/auctioned off? I've seen them crop up here and there on the EE, but not from the source. Or do they just sell the lot to gun shops to take care of?
 
Companies like glock take the old ones back, police ordinance one of glocks Canadian distributors frequently sells agency reconditioned firearms. I believe the sig red case? Firearms are sometimes reconditioned agency firearms as well, but I'm not 100% sure on that one.
 
"...not from the source..." You wouldn't. Police stuff was sold by Crown Assets Disposal at one time. Sold by auction too. By invitation only, as I recall. Noboy from the gerneral public allowed. No police stuff has been sold or released to the public for eons though.
 
Poilice don't really sell there guns anymore to dealer's, public officials would rather destroy them or the police can trade them in. Before you could bid on surplus used police guns and get some real collector guns in the mix.
 
You used to be able to buy used police guns from Ontario agencies in Ontario. I have a Beretta from the West Nipissing force from when they switched to Glocks a few years back. A real interesting story too. An officer showed up at the retailer in his own vehicle with an uncovered blue bin full of guns, holsters and unpinned mags. No trigger locks either. He walked out and the guns were to be sold to customers. The local constabulary got wind of this and threatened to charge the retailer with selling prohibited devices. So, he made sure all the mags were pinned...because you know a .40cal Beretta mag with 11 rounds as opposed to 10 will wreak havoc upon society like the fist of an angry god. Thank God our government had the prescience to save us from that.

Anyhow, I think that was one of the last times such guns were available to us peons. Now, instead of recouping some of the cost of new guns, or, getting some money for other projects, they pay people to dispose of them for vital "reasons of public safety". Thank God for the wisdom of our betters.
 
Komodo said:
All police firearms in Ontario are destroyed when they become surplus.
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Not all...

Police services don't sell direct... The guns go back to the distributor and can then go wherever.

Last time I bought an old police gun was probably 1991 and even then I got it from the company that supplied the police
 
The department I was with trades in their surplus guns for new ones

Seized guns are destroyed.

The Wildlife Department use to auction off seized firearms (non-restricted) but they haven't done that in ages.
 
Same reasons we're destroying all those Hi-Powers; gangbangers were probably going to show up to the auction and make lawful purchases of them.
 
Yup, I wrote my MP about the 19,000 Browning Hi-powers that the forces destroyed last year, and paid a Quebec company to do it. He said it was in the public interest and for safety. Soi assume police forces do the same.
 
sunray said:
"...not from the source..." You wouldn't. Police stuff was sold by Crown Assets Disposal at one time. Sold by auction too. By invitation only, as I recall. Noboy from the gerneral public allowed. No police stuff has been sold or released to the public for eons though.
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Ug, what a ray of sun, always revealing the bright side.

It is true that for a long time surplus Kanadian police guns have not been offered to the taxpayers who bought them in the first place. They either get destroyed (brilliant, huh?) or occasionally get sold to some third world country government agency.
Any police trade-in guns that are offered for sale came from the USA or Europe.
 
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