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Wed Apr 17, 2013, 07:00 PM Apr 2013

grrr. AZ moving to sell buyback guns to gun dealers.

The months since the deadly Connecticut school shooting have seen dozens of gun buyback events across the country, with officials getting thousands of unwanted firearms off the street and sending them off to their destruction.

In Arizona, however, the Republican-controlled Legislature is now moving to save such guns.

Prompted by a gun buyback event in January in Tucson, where a 2011 shooting rampage left six dead and wounded then-U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 12 others, GOP lawmakers crafted a bill that would require local agencies to sell the firearms to gun dealers. The bill, which has passed both chambers of the Legislature, tightens a 2010 law that requires police to sell seized weapons.

Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Arizona-moves-to-force-sale-of-turned-in-guns-4442771.php#ixzz2QlSYIf9E

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