Posted January 24, 2018 8:30 am by Comments

By Christen Smith

This 2014 photo provided by the Yakima Police Department shows a Smith & Wesson 9-mm pistol on a table in the apartment where Kyle Juhl used it to kill himself in Yakima, Wash. (Photo: Amber Ross/Yakima Police Department via AP)
An Army veteran killed himself in Washington in 2014 with a gun seized by state police and traded away years earlier.
Yakima Police Detective Kasey Hampton told the Associated Press in a Jan. 8 interview the Smith & Wesson pistol 24-year-old Kyle Juhl shot himself with ended up for sale online after Washington State Patrol confiscated it and sold it to a firearms dealer.
State police, unlike other law enforcement agencies in Washington, must resell seized weapons, according to the Associated Press, rather than destroying or keeping the guns. Critics say the discrepancy returns guns into the hands of criminals and other prohibited buyers — including Juhl himself.
Juhl spent four years behind bars at Fort Leavenworth after military officials court-martialed him for abusing ecstasy and alcohol and going AWOL for two months in 2010. Maj. Christopher Ophardt, an Army spokesman, told the Associated Press officials submitted Juhl’s record to the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information System that same year.
Despite this, however, Hampton said only Juhl’s DUI

Source: Guns.com

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