Posted on 11/07/2016 5:17:07 AM PST by marktwain
Handguns from an Arizona Turn In Event, 2013 |
The Tucson Police Department has destroyed 4,820 guns turned in by residents or seized from crime investigations since the beginning of 2013, city records show.The article gives us more information about the firearms destroyed:
The figure is at the heart of a complaint made by state Rep. Mark Finchem, who is arguing Tucson is violating a 2013 Arizona law that requires the sales of otherwise legal guns obtained by law enforcement agencies.
City policies allow only for rifles that are not semi-automatic and shotguns to be sold at public auction. All handguns and semi-automatic rifles taken in by police are destroyed.As all the firearms destroyed were either handguns or semi-automatic rifles, a reasonable value would be about $200 each. We cannot know the exact value, because the firearms were not put up for auction.
Roughly 86 percent of the guns that were disposed of in the last 3½ years were destroyed, according to documents provided by the Tucson Police Department. Of the remaining 14 percent, half were put up for sale at auction and half were kept for law enforcement purposes.
(Note that local governments and state agencies likely have no First Amendment rights against state governments, because the state is entitled to control the conduct of its subdivisions; likewise, federal agencies have no First Amendment rights against the federal government. The question is whether state and local governments, agents of one sovereign, have First Amendment rights against the federal government, another sovereign.)The issue of Tucson flagrantly violating state law is coming to a head. The AG is investigating the City to see if they violated state law. It seems clear they have done so. It remains to be seen if the AG will find it to be true, and if the Treasurer will be required to withhold funds from the city.
Who will be going to jail for this?
Nice Rugers, what a waste of nice machinery.
They enjoy destroying guns and the unborn.
“Nice Rugers, what a waste of nice machinery.”
My thought also. I wonder why these were confiscated. Single action revolvers aren’t real popular with the gang bangers.
No place to mount the Birdman Weapons Sysytems Homeboy nite sites.
My thought also. I wonder why these were confiscated.
These pistols were turned in for $100 each at a gun “buy
back” in Phoenix. It was the last buyback in Phoenix. The state made it illegal to destroy guns that came into police hands. Since then, no more “buy backs” in Phoenix.
Tucson defies the law.
The only purpose of the law now is to keep the serfs and peons in their place [slaves to the ruling class].
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