A committee discussed several options this week, then decided to delay any action. Instead, officials will study how other communities dis pose of outdated police weapons. In light of a recent Los Angeles incident, though, some may be looking at Forest Park for ideas. Soon after, Forest Park City Council rejected a police plan to trade five semiautomatic handguns for new rifles from a federally licensed firearms dealer.
Trades are common at many police agencies, and they save money by defraying the cost of new weapons.
But council members worried the guns might be resold, then used in a crime. Council referred the matter to Forest Park's Public Improvements and Facilities Committee. Destroying the weapons. Selling them to Forest Park police officers. Trading with the stipulation they be resold only to other law enforcement agencies.