Louisville shooter’s AR-15 to be auctioned off and ‘back on the streets’ under state law

GOP lawmakers love to recycle and make blood money off their beloved murder weapons.

From The Guardian: The mayor of Louisville has said Kentucky law would make him a criminal if he destroys the assault-style rifle used by a gunman in Monday’s killing of five bank employees in his city.

An emotional Craig Greenberg was speaking Tuesday at a lunchtime press conference during which police revealed the killer – an employee at the Old National Bank who also wounded eight others, including two critically – bought the weapon legally six days previously.

The killer’s rifle was confiscated after police shot him dead, and Kentucky law requires officers to send it to state police officials to sell at auction.

“Think about that,” Greenberg said. “That murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under Kentucky’s current law.”

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He added: “Let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors. We have to do more than we’ve already done. Let’s change the state laws that would make me a criminal for trying too hard to stop the real evil criminals who are taking other people’s lives.”

Greenberg, who said the US had grown tired of gun crime, appealed for Kentucky’s Republican-controlled state legislature to cede responsibility for addressing gun violence to local municipalities.

“Let Louisville make its own decisions about reducing the amount of illegal guns on our streets,” he said. “I don’t care about finger pointing. I don’t care about blame. I don’t care about politics. I’m only interested in working together with our state legislators to take meaningful action to save lives, to prevent more tragic injuries, and more death.

“Arguing is not a strategy. Doing nothing is not a strategy.”

Read The Guardian story here

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