The mayor of Louisville has said Kentucky law would make him a criminal if he destroys the assault-style rifle used by a gunman in Monday’s killing of five bank employees in his city.
An emotional Craig Greenberg was speaking Tuesday at a lunchtime press conference during which police revealed the killer – an employee at the Old National Bank who also wounded eight others, including two critically – bought the weapon legally six days previously.
The killer’s rifle was confiscated after police shot him dead, and Kentucky law requires officers to send it to state police officials to sell at auction.
Greenberg’s administration can remove the firing pins from any guns that local police officers confiscate, which leaves them inoperable for at least a little while. But incapacitating impounded guns in any other way is illegal, and that has left Greenberg – who lost a friend during the bank attack – fuming.
“Think about that,” Greenberg said. “That murder weapon will be back on the streets one day under Kentucky’s current law.”
He added: “Let us destroy illegal guns and destroy the guns that have been used to kill our friends and kill our neighbors. We have to do more than we’ve already done. Let’s change the state laws that would make me a criminal for trying too hard to stop the real evil criminals who are taking other people’s lives.”
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