AGust82 wrote:
I just read on another board that a county in Georgia is considering selling off some of it's supply of confiscated guns to raise some cash. This makes me wonder if CT has some orphan guns that need good homes.
Here in Ky. confiscated guns were destroyed until a few years ago. For years they were melted down or dumped into the Ohio River. No effort was made to determine if they were stolen or to return them to the rightful owners. Then the General Assembly stepped in and passed legislation requiring a good faith effort to see that stolen property was returned to owners. All other guns were to be sold and the money was to be used to purchase body armor for the local police dept. Great idea, right.
The Mayors in Jefferson (Louisville) and Fayette (Lexington) Counties ordered their Police Chiefs to not comply. At the next yearly session of the General Assembly the law was changed and the State Police were ordered to pick up all of these guns state wide and handle the sale and attempted return to rightful owners. This set up a direct confrontation between the two local PDs and the State Police. The locals backed down and now everything works smoothly. Some tax money is freed up for other things, the cops get their vests and some people even get their property back. This type of grass roots work and cooperation between the gun owners and the legislature is one reasons Ky. is a gold star state.