In the coming months, state legislators are likely to find a bill crossing their desks that requires law enforcement agencies to auction guns confiscated in crimes rather than destroy them, as many do now.
The proposal is the brainchild of the National Rifle Association, and it was adopted last week by a task force at the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council, a Republican-leaning policy group that brings together state lawmakers, advocacy groups and corporations to write model legislation.
The gun bill, which was passed 12 years ago in Kentucky has recently been championed by the NRA in nearby states.
“This is a really great way for police to get money and for people to get firearms,” said Rachel Parsons, a spokeswoman for the NRA. She said the law takes weapons out of the hands of criminals and gives them to law-abiding citizens.
“I had police coming to me and saying, ‘I’m destroying better guns than what my officers have in their holsters,’” - Kentucky state Representative Robert Damron, a Democrat and ALEC member,
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-11/pro-gun-group-s-call-to-sell-seized-weapons-advances-to-states.html
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