A candidate for Louisville mayor who was shot at by an assailant in his campaign office is pledging to crack down on confiscated firearms that police send to auction.
FILE - Mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg answers questions from reporters on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. The candidate for Louisville mayor who was shot at by an assailant in his campaign office is pledging to crack down on confiscated firearms that police send to auction. Greenberg said Wednesday, Sept. 14, that part of his plan to reduce violent crime would include directing Louisville police to render seized firearms inoperable before they go to auction.
FILE - Mayoral candidate Craig Greenberg answers questions from reporters on Tuesday, May 17, 2022, in Louisville, Ky. The candidate for Louisville mayor who was shot at by an assailant in his campaign office is pledging to crack down on confiscated firearms that police send to auction. Greenberg said Wednesday, Sept. 14, that part of his plan to reduce violent crime would include directing Louisville police to render seized firearms inoperable before they go to auction.
Democrat Craig Greenberg said Wednesday that part of his plan to reduce violent crime would include directing Louisville police to render seized firearms inoperable before they go to auction. State law requires that confiscated guns be sent to Kentucky State Police for auction, and that the sale proceeds be used to buy equipment, like body armor, for police officers.
. He called the practice “absurd and dangerous.” He said he believes the city can comply with the state law and still make the guns unusable, though he did not elaborate on how the guns would be altered to make them inoperable.
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