Kansas Gun law Reform Pays off; Wichita Gun Auction 2015-2016

Reform of Kansas gun laws are paying off. In 2014, Kansas passed a law requiring government entities to sell or use firearms that came into their possession rather than to destroy these valuable assets in a modern version of the Medieval Deodand law.

In Deodand law, items were tried and sentences passed. They were destroyed or forfeited to the Church for Godly purposes. The legal precedent is continued in modern forfeiture laws.

Kansas stopped that superstitious practice with the reform of the gun law. From the dailycaller.com:

It is likely that most of the guns are from old domestic protection order cases. The law was reformed in 2014 to require police to return guns or other weapons to owners who were not convicted of any crime. This stops the "legalized theft" of firearms, where departments required individuals to obtain a court order to have their firearms returned. Often, the cost of the court order was more than the firearm was worth. Now, as part of Kansas statute 22-2512(d) :

(d) If a weapon is seized from an individual and the individual is not convicted of or adjudicated as a juvenile offender for the violation for which the weapon was seized, then within 30 days after the declination or conclusion of prosecution of the case against the individual, including any period of appeal, the law enforcement agency that seized the weapon shall verify that the weapon is not stolen, and upon such verification shall notify the person from whom it was seized that the weapon may be retrieved. Such notification shall include the location where such weapon may be retrieved.

This reform will reduce the number of firearms available for auction in the future. Looking over the list of firearms to be auctioned, I saw a number that were listed as "returned to owner".

This reform will help to restore respect for the law. Having your property taken at gun point, then finding that you will be required to spend more than the property is worth to recover it, when you are found not guilty, does substantial harm to the idea of the rule of law. Any belief that the criminal justice system can be relied on to use a little common sense is destroyed.

Without belief in the rule of law, civilized society falls apart, exactly as we have seen in many urban centers.

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They should sell them at PUBLIC AUCTION to the public, federal laws enforced.

They will get nearly new prices and sometimes more for them!

People lose all sense of value when guns are auctioned off,m bidding up even junk guns to more than new prices.

...the law enforcement agency that seized the weapon shall verify that the weapon is not stolen, and upon such verification shall notify the person from whom it was seized that the weapon may be retrieved. Such notification shall include the location where such weapon may be retrieved.

Why does the owner of the gun have to travel to some inconvenient location, probably with long delays, in order to retrieve his firearm?

Seems to me that if the police came out to his house and took it away to start with, they can jolly well make an appointment and deliver it back to the rightful owner.

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