[from occupied ga]

Why destroy valuable property, firearms. Sell them to reduce the budget shortfall. Sound very reasonable to me.

I see a lot of people saying this is a good thing, but this does give the police a further incentive to steal peoples' property and make a profit from selling it.

[Texas Fossil]

I thought about that, and it is a valid criticism. It probably depends on state law as to how much of an issue that would be.

Knowing Colorado Springs, it will not be a problem there.

Lots of retired military. That is why it is so different from Denver.

[Terabitten]

I see a lot of people saying this is a good thing, but this does give the police a further incentive to steal peoples' property and make a profit from selling it.

There's a lot of layers between seizure and sale. It's virtually impossible (not to mention horrendously stupid) to seize a gun specifically to sell it.

[zeugma]

I see a lot of people saying this is a good thing, but this does give the police a further incentive to steal peoples' property and make a profit from selling it.

Excellent point. I would want there to be safeguards in place to make sure that due process was actually being followed. (unlike what is done thee days in the case of most forfieture related to the "wod").  For instance, the person would actually have to have been convicted of a crime that was directly related to the firearm in question.