Louisville's mayor told reporters that under a 1998 Kentucky law, the AR-15 used in the deadly shooting at a downtown bank 'will one day be auctioned off,' and more likely than not, 'that murder weapon will be back on the streets.'
, "It's time to change this law and let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors."
NBC News anchor Tom Llamas asked Greenberg about the mandatory gun auctions Tuesday evening. "Under Kentucky state law, guns that are confiscated are ultimately required to be turned over to the state, who in turn auctions those guns off, and far too often they end up back on the streets," Greenberg said. "We have evidence that guns used to commit crimes end up back on the streets to commit more crimes.
"It's unclear how many auctioned guns end up being used in crimes, as no agency in the state tracks that data," the
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