Tucson Pays for Scofflaw Actions to Destroy Guns

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Posted September 20, 2017 1:25 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

Dean Weingarten

By Dean Weingarten

Colt Python turned in to be destroyed by Tucson in 2013, Worth about $3,000
Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- In September, 2017, the City of Tucson taxpayers agreed to pay the State of Arizona for the legal fees required to stop the City Council from violating State law.

The Council had required that legal, valuable firearms be destroyed rather than sold for the benefit of the public. Even liberal academics understand that is a waste of valuable resources.

In 2012, Arizona made the wasteful practice of destroying valuable firearms illegal for local governments.

From AZCDL.org:

This legislation was a follow-up to a 2010 law that required forfeited firearms to be sold to authorized dealers and not be scrapped. Unfortunately, there was a provision in the law that allowed local jurisdictions to determine the disposition of forfeited firearms they acquired. Sadly, this resulted in the loss of revenue to many police departments, short of cash because of ideology based decisions to destroy these firearms. Under the new law, after 60 days unclaimed firearms that can be legally owned must be sold to a business authorized to receive and dispose of fire-arms under state and federal law, for …Read the Rest

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