I see Seattle has a solution for getting rid of their department's older firearms (at least their not talking about destroying them, like Honolulu, yet):

Seattle City Council Goes Full Retard: Ordinance Banning Civilian Sales of Ex-LEO Guns

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/06/robert-farago/seattle-city-council-goes-full-retard-ordinance-banning-civilian-sales-of-ex-leo-guns/

Advocates for this legislation point out that the SPD guns and ammo could end up on the black market.

Nope,,  Seattle has decided to destroy them...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-seattle-mayor-council-waste-money-on-anti-gun-symbolism-300291665.html

And to think, the money could have been spent to pay for rail... well at least some of it. So stupid.....

Nope,,  Seattle has decided to destroy them...

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ccrkba-seattle-mayor-council-waste-money-on-anti-gun-symbolism-300291665.html

Okay. So I wondered what the writer at TTAG was gonna use for a headline now after calling the Council "Full Retard" for considering only selling them to another law enforcement agency?

I guess he ran out of superlatives for stupidity and disingenuousness after the Council voted unanimously to destroy them (while noting that the cops might get another exemption...):

UPDATE: Seattle Police Cry Foul Over Ordinance Selling/Destroying Ex-LEO Handguns

https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2016/06/robert-farago/update-seattle-police-cry-foul-ordinance-sellingdestroying-ex-leo-handguns/

We recently reported that the Seattle City Council was considering a bill that would restrict sales of ex-police guns to other police agencies. If there were no takers (as is likely), the SPD would have to destroy the guns. The ordinance passed. Unanimously. Before that blessed event, we pointed out that this policy was a waste of taxpayer money; some $30k per year. Not to mention some perfectly good guns. The Seattle Police Department agrees — but not for the same reasons. kiro7.com:

The Seattle Police Officers Guild has pointed out a major hitch in the city’s plan to melt down officers’ old guns in the fight against gun violence.

The union’s president, Ron Smith, said the move, which is expected to cost the city $30,000 a year in trade-in money, would break the city’s deal with the union.

“It looks like a waste of city money and it looks like an ill-advised move that was done without regard for our collective bargaining agreement,” he said.

Smith said retiring officers are, according to the agreement, supposed to be able to buy their service weapons.

And why, pray tell, would Seattle Police officers want to buy their “old” guns? Sentimentality? Or maybe because they buy them at a significant discount — then turn around and sell the guns to dealers or private buyers and pocket the profits?

Which puts guns on the street! The “problem” that led to the Seattle sell-’em-to-cops-or-melt-’em-down ordinance in the first place. Despite the Council’s pursuit of political correctness at the taxpayer’s expense, what’s the bet the cops get a carve-out?