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Mesa considering selling confiscated weapons to gu
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Mesa considering selling confiscated weapons to gun dealers
Associated Press
Sept. 11, 2002 07:35:00
The city is considering selling confiscated firearms to gun dealers. Under the plan, the impounded firearms, which include handguns and rifles, would be auctioned to licensed dealers. All firearms valued at less than $100, or ones that are illegal, would be destroyed.
Mayor Keno Hawker tried several times to change the 1998 law, which prohibits the sale of police-impounded guns to the public, but he was voted down by the City Council.
But with the election in March of three conservative, pro-gun council members, Hawker now appears to have the support he needs.
Rex Griswold, Janie Thom and Kyle Jones said this week they are interested in changing the policy.
"I don't see it to be a huge danger to society to put them back on the streets, and it's maybe a benefit to the city," Griswold said.
But Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh said the law is working well, and he doesn't want it changed.
"I don't think the city should be in the business of selling firearms," Kavanaugh said.
The council is expected to hold public hearings on the issue within the next 60 days. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0911confiscatedguns-ON.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Associated Press
Sept. 11, 2002 07:35:00
The city is considering selling confiscated firearms to gun dealers. Under the plan, the impounded firearms, which include handguns and rifles, would be auctioned to licensed dealers. All firearms valued at less than $100, or ones that are illegal, would be destroyed.
Mayor Keno Hawker tried several times to change the 1998 law, which prohibits the sale of police-impounded guns to the public, but he was voted down by the City Council.
But with the election in March of three conservative, pro-gun council members, Hawker now appears to have the support he needs.
Rex Griswold, Janie Thom and Kyle Jones said this week they are interested in changing the policy.
"I don't see it to be a huge danger to society to put them back on the streets, and it's maybe a benefit to the city," Griswold said.
But Vice Mayor Dennis Kavanaugh said the law is working well, and he doesn't want it changed.
"I don't think the city should be in the business of selling firearms," Kavanaugh said.
The council is expected to hold public hearings on the issue within the next 60 days. http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0911confiscatedguns-ON.html
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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Trouble is finding agencies with the cojones to do it.
Mine won't.
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