Destruction of seized firearms
In Tennessee, the police aren’t supposed to do that anymore. Nashville police are just going to keep them, I suppose indefinitely. They don’t want to sell them for fear they’ll end up back on the street. If you sell them lawfully to a dealer who will then run background checks, then what’s the issue?
February 15th, 2011 at 10:14 am
Well, it’s obvious. The issue is that these are the evil guns, and they might kill again. We can’t let these guns loose, free to roam the streets and murder at will, you know.~
February 15th, 2011 at 10:19 am
Because something is out of line in your local government, and how it sees the people.
February 15th, 2011 at 10:24 am
No worries. The nashville cops are so corrupt most of the weapons will end up back on the street before destruction..
February 15th, 2011 at 10:27 am
BECAUSE THE AFT WILL LET THEM GO TO MEXICO!!!
THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!
haha.
February 15th, 2011 at 10:28 am
ATF*
February 15th, 2011 at 10:55 am
If you sell them lawfully to a dealer who will then run background checks, then what’s the issue?
The issue is nobody wants to be the guy who has something stupid happen downstream of a decision they made or an action they took. Chief’s not going to risk a reporter shoving a camera in his face after some guy shoots someone with a police sold gun, regardless of the circumstances. Government runs on CYA.
February 15th, 2011 at 11:22 am
“We do not sell firearms for fear that they will end up back on the street and end up in another crime,” Aaron said.”
Markie Marxist sez: “Exactly! That’s why all private gun ownership should be eliminated – so the guns don’t end up in another crime. It’s just common communist sense.”
February 15th, 2011 at 11:51 am
Keep the seized gun registry public, and do regular audited inventories, or the higher quality firearms might, over time, evaporate off the shelves in the police station’s evidence locker. Just sayin’ it could happen.
February 15th, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Uncle, the confiscated guns are sold but the cities put restrictions on the bulk sales. E.g. Chicago, NYC, New Orleans will sell gun by weight (after they throw a few in a furnace for the cameras) with restrictions that no gun can be sold within 150 miles of Chicago or NYC.
One year while on my way to Knob Creek a buddy of mine bought a bag of guns (6 of them) from Chicago for $100. You could not open the bag but one of them was a decent Ruger Service Six.
Nashville will do the same. Sell the guns off to a dealer in WA or AZ. No big deal, happens all the time.
February 15th, 2011 at 1:27 pm
You know, they can only track them back to the seller if there is a registry in place.
I dont know about Tenn., but in PA, a registry is illegal (and the police dont mind breaking the law to keep one).
February 15th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Whats the issue? Police view EVERY person not in law enforcement as a criminal. ALL 90 million gun owners, and EVERY minority are criminal to them. So its not hard to make the troll logic leap.
February 15th, 2011 at 6:09 pm
“If you sell them lawfully to a dealer who will then run background checks, then what’s the issue?”
They’re political cowards. That’s the issue. Sniveling little pants wetting cowards with no morals who have taken the position that the far, loony left is the mainstream and that it must be appeased.