What happens to the guns confiscated by police?

[Howard Roark]

Weapons and related items siezed by ICE are transported to a foundry in Atlanta and are melted under supervision.

 

[Ky Larry]

I had a CZ-75BD stolen from me. The police recovered it and gave it back to me. They kept 30 rounds of 9mm Federal Hydra-Shoks. The ammo probably got used at the police range. The state of Kentucky has state police auctions of confiscated weapons. Most are pure junk.

 

[crotalus01]

Here in Memphis the cops sell the drugs and use the guns in homicides....

 

[Pat-inCO]

What happens to the guns confiscated by police?
Do they destroy the guns?

Yes.

I'll bet a few have gone "off location" (as they say in the warehouse business, for item that can't be found) but at least 99% of them are destroyed.

 

[evan price]

The big gunshop around here, Vance's, often buys police-impounded or seized gun lots to resell. Anything the Columbus PD wants to make a statement about used to go the Buckeye Steel foundry to be made into railroad parts.

 

[Beagle-zebub]

The whole thing about guns that were used in crime not being resellable to the public doesn't make complete sense in light of the fact that you can just change the barrels, particularly with autopistols.

 

[Crow1108]

Crow1108 .............my DH and I can only hope that his stolen 1911 will turn up and not been used in a crime. We have yet to get my Beretta 9mm back from the lab. It's been 4 weeks. They will not return our $300 in ammo that was also taken. I am going to the top to get that back. Their SOP sounds like crap to us. We are the victims but feel we are being punished.

The punk was caught and will likely get 25 to life for the crime.

Flagal, sorry to hear that . I hope you get your Beretta and ammo back.

Glad to hear he was caught. Hope he gets everything that's comming to him in the bighouse.

 

[Mannlicher]

my guess is that confiscated guns, if not returned to their rightful owners, (wink) wind up in the hands of individual police persons.