Louisville mayor rebukes Ky. law requiring shooting weapon to be auctioned

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Mayor Craig Greenberg (D) told viewers during a news conference Tuesday that the firearm that was used to kill five people and injure eight in Louisville on Monday will ultimately be put up for auction.

“To those in the national media that are joining us here today,” Greenberg said, “this may be even more shocking than it is to those of us locally who know this and are dealing with this.”prohibits law enforcement from destroying confiscated firearms — even when they have been used in crimes. Instead, those firearmsare required to be sent to Kentucky State Police, which sells the weapons to federally licensed gun dealers.

that about 80 percent of auction proceeds go to the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security and about 20 percent of the fundsA Louisville Metro Police Department spokesperson declined to comment, referring questions about : “LMPD has no interest in spending hundreds of hours investigating a crime only to potentially pick up the same gun twice — or more.”would remove firing pins from guns and add labels warning that the weapons may have been used in a homicide before sending them to Kentucky State Police.

 

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Who would want to buy a gun that was used for a mass shooting ? Is this law common ?

Since the shooter is dead, they could leave the case open and keep it in evidence.

Clarence is fine with that decision and has some ghoulish friends who keep ghoulish collections

what kind of twisted society allows this

No gun left behind

That is disgusting! It should be destroyed out of respect for the victims and their families.

Oh what do you know, another lib run city with tons of crime. Lol

Is it an AR-15? I need one!

KYGOP needs to fix this as well as your lackluster gun laws in the state. This SUCKS EndGunViolenceNow BanAssaultWeaponsAGAIN

I bet it ends up in Harlan Crow's collection of evil memorabilia...

I bet it ends up in Harlan Crow's museum of evil memorabilia

Increíble ! Sociedad enferma 😔 y en estado grave!!

For those confused, back when cities were doing gun buy backs many states put laws on the books banning gun destruction and forced cities to auction off the guns. Because “what about the guns”. SMH.

You'd think the gun lobby would oppose this, I figured gun confiscation after murders was their version of planned obsolescence.

Start a GoFundMe to purchase it, donate the proceeds equally to the families, and then film it being destroyed in a compactor.

KY law requires it

Sounds like a new acquisition waiting for Harlan Crow.

That's absolutely disgusting That weapon should be destroyed They should all be destroyed

Why on Earth would a mass murder weapon be auctioned off to the public?

The South lovessssss their guns.

This feels like a dystopian law wtf

Auction? frigging bury it, burn it...

Who benefits from the earnings? And who would want to buy it? The system feeds the fetish.

Shooting weapon to be auctioned means to handover others to act same role? It is best way to implemention law and handover to government custody or to burn its. Recently report of WFF regarding GUN that 41٪ young have gun and last year 46k to loss his/her life,so protect nation.

Sh*thole country. Seriously.

what the actual fuck

I had zero knowledge this was a thing! I’m so glad he exposed this, absolutely unforgivable! How does that make any sense?

Give it to the ppl who actually think, 'gun control', will stop sick twisted ppl. Ppl who the Media, and it's constant attempts to put us against one another, help create.

When does bidding start

A GOP ghoul will collect it.

It should be DESTROYED

WHAT?

Say what? Not destroyed?

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