The firearm a 25-year-old man used this month to shoot and kill five of his colleagues at a bank in Kentucky is expected at some point to go up for auction – a practice set by a state law the shooter’s family and Louisville’s mayor say they want changed
. The statute, in place since 2016, states that certain confiscated guns not retained for official use “shall be sold at public auction,” with some proceeds going to public safety programs. The law governs the inevitable future of weapons that live on long after anyone they were used against might have perished.
We need short-term action to end this gun violence epidemic now so fewer people die on our streets and in our banks, in our schools,” the mayor 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.
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