Austin City Council Decide Whether to Ban Police Trade-ins

By John Crump

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- When police departments get new service firearms, they usually do one of three things. The first option is to sell the used guns to the officers themselves. The second option is to trade them in under a manufacture trade-in program such as the one Glock offers police departments. The final option is to sell or trade the firearms to a company that will resell the guns to the general public.

The third option is what the Austin Police Department has been doing along with a local gun shop named Bailey’s House of Guns. The Austin PD agreed to sell Bailey’s House of Guns 1,156 .40-caliber Smith & Wesson handguns for discounts on 1,788 9mm duty guns.

This arrangement between Austin PD and Bailey’s House of Guns saves taxpayers thousands of dollars. In 2016 a similar trade-in deal saved the city $368,328, but this time certain anti-gun members of the Austin City Council want to block the deal.

Democrat Alison Alter, who was not on the City Council when the original deal went into effect, hopes to block the guns from reaching the general public. She plans to …Read the Rest

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