TN Joins Trend of Preventing Destruction of Valuable Firearms

By Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- In 2010, Tennessee passed a law forbidding police departments to destroy valuable guns. They had to keep them or sell them. Some departments chose to keep them rather than return them to standard channels of commerce. The legislature responded by making the sale of weapons acquired by police departments through confiscation or gun turn in programs to be sold every six months. That bill, passed in May of 2015, has become law in Tennessee. It faced little opposition in the legislature, passing on voice votes. Here is a partial summation. From tn.gov:

Prior to the disposal of any firearm that has been forfeited or abandoned to the state or a political subdivision of the state, the agency with custody or possession of the firearm must use best efforts to determine if the firearm has been lost by or stolen or otherwise unlawfully obtained from an innocent owner, and if so, must return the firearm to the owner, if ascertainable, unless that person is ineligible to possess, receive, or purchase a firearm under state or federal law.

With certain exceptions, the agency must dispose of …Read the Rest

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